Surgeon Rear Admiral (Retd) V K Singh has been appointed Adjunct Research Professor of Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He would be engaged in teaching and research of health innovation. Thus Dr Singh would be instrumental in bringing this new initiative to the Indian health sector.
Dr Singh has extensive experience in various fields including hospital designing and planning, quality principles, patient safety, hospital acquired infection, disaster planning, strategic management, health care innovations, rural health planning etc. He is on the advisory board of many hospitals and is a visiting faculty, as well as an examiner of many reputed institutes and universities.
He has served as Dy Chief Medical Officer of United Nations and has received many awards and accolades. Currently, he is the Chairman, Health Care Division of Quality Council of India; Member of International Working Group on Biosafety; Executive Member of Telemedicine Society of India; Member of National Health Committee of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and Director Healthcare Asia for Lean Healthcare Excellence- Simpler.