New Delhi, July 31 -- The Government of India has appointed Air Marshal Sandeep Thareja, presently serving as the Director General Medical Services (Air), as the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) with effect from the afternoon of August 31.

According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Defence, he will assume the appointment upon the retirement of the incumbent DGAFMS Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin.

An alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, Air Marshal Sandeep Thareja was commissioned in December 1986. He obtained his MD in Medicine in 1997 and his DM in Gastroenterology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, in 2005, where he was awarded the Best DM Studen...