Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has appointed Deepak Kumar Mishra as the new director of Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer, Cuttack.
He is currently is currently a Senior Consultant in Laboratory Haematology & Molecular Pathology at the Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata, a notification issued by Health and Family Welfare Department said.
Mishra has been appointed to the post for a term of three years from the date on which he joins in the office or till he attains the age of sixty-five years, whichever is earlier, it added.
He was the best medical graduate of his MBBS batch from VSS Medical College, Sambalpur, in 1983 and did MD in Pathology from AFMC, Pune, in 1990. He received his post-doctoral Fellowship in Haematology from AIIMS, New Delhi. He joined Tata Medical Centre in May 2010 after working for more than 25 years in the Armed Forces – Army Hospital (Research & Referral), New Delhi and Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
He is the current President of the Molecular Pathology Association of India ( MPAI ). He has been the former Presidents of the Indian Society of Haematology & Blood Transfusion , Indian Association of Pathologists & Microbiologists and the former Secretary of the Indian Association of Pathologists & Microbiologists.
