Kavita Sahai

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Kavita Sahai

SM, VSM
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AllegianceFlag of India.svg  India
Service/branchFlag of Indian Army.svg  Indian Army
Years of serviceDecember 1986 - present
Rank Lieutenant General of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant General
Awards Sena Medal ribbon.svg Sena Medal
Vishisht Seva Medal ribbon.svg Vishisht Seva Medal
Alma mater Armed Forces Medical College

Vice Admiral Kavita Sahai, SM, VSM is a serving General Officer in the Indian Army. She is the eighth woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank, and the fourth to hold the rank of Lieutenant General. She currently serves as the Director General Medical Services (Navy). Earlier she was serving as the Commandant Army Medical Corps Centre and College, Lucknow.

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Career

Sahai was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in December 1986 after graduating from Armed Forces Medical College. [1] [2] [3] In 1994, she did her Doctor of Medicine in pathology and Diplomate of National Board in Pathology in 1997. [4] [5]

An alumnus of the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College Pune, she has specialized in Pathology and super specialized in Oncopathology from the prestigious AIIMS, New Delhi. She has been Professor and head of Dept, Lab Sciences at Army Hospital Research and Referral (AHRR) and Base Hospital Delhi Cantt (BHDC). She has also been Professor at Dept of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune. Prior to assuming charge as the DGMS (Navy), she was the First woman Commandant of AMC Centre & College and O i/C Records. She is the first woman officer to be elected as Col Commandant of Army Medical Corps. She has a special interest in Medical Education and was awarded prestigious Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) Fellowship for advancement of Med Education from Philadelphia, USA in 2013-14. [6]

Awards

In recognition for her distinguished Service, the Flag Officer has been awarded the Sena Medal in 2024 and Vishisht Seva Medal in 2018 and has been Commended by the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) twice in 2008 & 2012 and the GOC-in-C (WC) in 2010.

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