Indian-American doctor selected for Fulbright Nehru Distinguished Chair

Dr. Rahul Jindal is Professor of Surgery and Global Health at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

March 04, 2015 10:51 am | Updated 10:53 am IST - Washington

A top Indian-American physician has been selected for the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair to India.

The Ahmedabad-based HL Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences will host Dr. Rahul Jindal for the duration of the chair, a media release said yesterday. The Institute performs about 400 kidney transplants in a year and has developed innovative transplant tolerance models.

Dr. Jindal is Professor of Surgery and Global Health at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Awards in the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program are viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. The Chairs Program comprises approximately forty distinguished lecturing, distinguished research and distinguished lecturing / research awards ranging from three to 12 months.

A leading US surgeon, Jindal was also presented with a prestigious immigrant award of the US government in 2013, in recognition of his outstanding achievements.

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