Join Air Marshal (Dr.) Padma Bandopadhyay, PVSM, AVSM, VSM. Commendation by CAS, Director General Medical Services, Indian Air Force (Retd.), in a Session on ‘From Tailoring School to Medical School And From Surgeon to Flight Surgeon’ with Col. Gopal Karunakaran (Retd.) Executive Director, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR; CEO, Shiv Nadar School. Air Marshal (Dr.) Padma Bandopadhyay is the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Air Marshal and one of the most decorated former flight surgeons in the Indian Air Force. A proud recipient of Padma Shri Award for her work in the field of medicine, Dr. Bandopadhyay made the difficult transition from Humanities to Science stream during her college in Delhi University and later joined the Armed Forces Medical College in 1963l. A lady with many firsts, Dr. Bandopadhyay is the first woman to become a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Society of India and the first Indian woman to conduct scientific research at the North Pole.
Shiv Nadar University is a student-centric, multidisciplinary and research-focused University offering a wide range of academic programs at the Undergraduate, Master's, and Doctoral levels. The University was set up in 2011 by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established by Mr. Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL. The University is in the quest to become a globally acclaimed center for learning and innovation in the fields of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Management. The core of the University consists of a select, world-class faculty with doctoral and postdoctoral experiences from ranked universities all over the world.Shiv Nadar University has been recognized as one of the ten private ‘Institutions of Eminence’ by the Government. In the NIRF (Government’s National Institutional Ranking Framework), the University has been the youngest institution in the 'top 100' Overall list. In NIRF-2021, it ranked 56 in the 'University' category. Shiv Nadar University has been accredited with Grade ‘A’ by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council), valid for a period of five years from 26 November 2019. It is also among a select group of institutions in the country which were awarded the prestigious Atal Incubation Center grant by the NITI Aayog, Government of India, in the very first round in 2017.