Arti Sarin

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Surgeon Vice Admiral
Arti Sarin
AVSM VSM
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Personal details
SpouseSurgeon Rear Admiral C. S. Naidu
Alma mater Armed Forces Medical College
Military service
AllegianceFlag of India.svg  India
Branch/serviceNaval Ensign of India.svg  Indian Navy
Years of service1985 – present
Rank 13-Indian Navy-VADM.svg Vice Admiral
Commands Armed Forces Medical College
INHS Asvini
Service number75408-F [1]
Awards

Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin, AVSM, VSM is a serving flag officer in the Indian Navy. She is currently serving as the Director General Medical Services (Navy). She previously served as the Director General Medical Services (Air) in the rank of Air Marshal, [2] prior to that, she served as the Director and Commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. [3] Earlier, she held the appointment of Commandant INHS Asvini. [4] She is the sixth woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a three-star rank. She is the third woman officer to hold the rank of Vice Admiral in the Indian Navy, after Surgeon Vice Admiral Punita Arora and Surgeon Vice Admiral Sheila S. Mathai.

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She has the rare distinction of serving in all three branches of the Indian Armed Forces. She served in the Indian Army from the ranks of Lieutenant to Captain, in the Indian Navy from Surgeon Lieutenant to Surgeon Vice Admiral and in the Indian Air Force as an Air Marshal. [5]

Early life and education

Vice Admiral Sarin attended the Timpany School, Visakhapatnam. [6] She then joined the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. At AFMC, she completed her MBBS degree. [7] She then did her post-graduation in 1992, earning the Doctor of Medicine degree in Radiology from AFMC. She then earned a DNB degree in Radiation Oncology from the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai [8] and was trained in Gamma Knife Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. [9]

Military career

Vice Admiral Sarin was commissioned in the Armed Forces Medical Services on 26 December 1985. Her illustrious career spans across all three services – the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Force. [5] She has served at the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NTSL), a defence laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Visakhapatnam. She has also served at the Naval Hospitals INHS Dhanvantari at Port Blair, INHS Kalyani at Visakhapatnam, INHS Sanjivani at Kochi and INHS Asvini at Mumbai. [10]

Vice Admiral Sarin is an examiner for the National Board of Examinations in Radiotherapy and the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik. She has also been a recognised post-graduate degree teacher at the Mumbai University, Pune University and at the MUHS for MD Radiology & DNB Radiation Oncology. She has several publications in Indian and International Journals and has contributed to chapters in books of Liver disease and assisted Reproduction respectively. [11]

Vice Admiral Sarin has served as a Professor & Head of the Department (HOD) Radiation Oncology at Army Hospital (Research & Referral) in Delhi, the Command Hospital Southern Command, Pune, the AFMC and INHS Asvini. [12] In her administrative appointments, she has served as the Senior Registrar (Medical Superintendent) at INHS Asvini and as the Principal Medical Officer Naval Dockyard (Mumbai). During the COVID-19 pandemic, as a Surgeon Commodore, she oversaw the design and development of innovative solutions and set up quarantine facilities in Southern Naval Command. [10]

Flag rank

On 22 June 2020, she was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and appointed Command Medical Officer, Southern Naval Command (SNC). [13] She is the second woman to have held the appointment of CMO at SNC, the first being Surgeon Rear Admiral Nirmala Kannan. [14] On 26 January 2021, she was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service of a high order. [15] After a short stint at SNC, she was appointed Commanding Officer of INHS Asvini. On 31 January 2021, in a rare event of a change of command between two women flag officers, she took over from Surgeon Rear Admiral Sheila S. Mathai. [16] In December 2021, Rear Admiral Sarin relinquished the appointment of Commandant INHS Asvini and was appointed Command Medical Officer Western Naval Command. [17]

On 5 October 2022, she was promoted to the rank of Surgeon Vice Admiral, only the sixth woman to be promoted to three-star rank in the Indian Armed Forces. She was appointed the Director and Commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College. She took over from another woman three-star officer - Lieutenant General Rajshree Ramasethu. On 10 January 2023, Vice Admiral Sarin took over as the Director General Medical Services (Air) (DGMS Air) in the rank of Air Marshal. [2] After a short stint, she was subsequently appointed Director General Medical Services (Navy) in the rank of Surgeon Vice Admiral. [5] [18]

Personal life

Vice Admiral Sarin was born into a naval family, her father was a naval officer who served for 41 years, her brother Rajesh also served in the navy for 30 years. A submariner, Rajesh retired as a Commodore, having served as the Commodore Commanding Submarines (East) besides commanding three submarines and a frigate. her sister-in-law was also a doctor in the navy.

She is married to Surgeon Rear Admiral C. S. Naidu, AVSM, VSM, a hepatobiliary surgeon who served in the navy for 38 years. In 2020, in a first, the couple served as the Command Medical Officers (CMO) of naval commands. While Vice Admiral Sarin served as the CMO of the Southern Naval Command, Rear Admiral Naidu was the CMO of the Eastern Naval Command. [19] The couple has a son, Rohan. [20]

Awards and decorations

She has been awarded with the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2024 [21] and the Vishisht Seva Medal in 2021. [22] She has also been awarded with Chief of the Naval Staff Commendation Card in 2001, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief commendation in 2013, the Chief of the Army Staff commendation in 2017

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal ribbon.svg Vishisht Seva Medal ribbon.svg IND Operation Vijay medal.svg IND Sainya Seva Medal Ribbon.svg
75yearmedal.svg IND 50th Anniversary Independence medal.svg IND 30 Years Long Service Ribbon.svg
IND 20YearsServiceMedalRibbon.svg IND 9YearsServiceMedalRibbon.svg
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Vishisht Seva Medal Operation Vijay Medal Sainya Seva Medal
75th Anniversary of Independence Medal 50th Anniversary of Independence Medal 30 Years Long Service Medal
20 Years Long Service Medal 9 Years Long Service Medal

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