Lt Gen Nair is currently Group Head- Medical Services & Chief Consultant – Haemato-Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant, Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center
QAI recently announced the appointment of Lt Gen (Dr) Velu Nair (Retd), as the new Editor-in-Chief for its Journal for Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (www.qaij.org).
Lt Gen Nair is currently Group Head- Medical Services & Chief Consultant – Haemato-Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant, Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center (CBCC), and Former, Director General Medical Services (DGMS), Army. He has taken over from Air Marshal (Dr) Pawan Kapoor (Retd), Former Director General Medical Services (Indian Air Force).
This journal was started with the aim to disseminate the scientific information and create evidence-based data in the field of healthcare quality and patient safety, and to fill a huge gap as no such specific Journal was available for researchers in India. It is a peer-reviewed print+online semiannual journal with free open access. The journal is registered with several abstracting partners including Baidu Scholar, Google Scholar, CNKI, TdNet, Netherlands ISSN Centre. In the year 2019, two issues have been published and now preparing for the third issue for publication in June 2020.