Randhir Sud is an Indian gastroenterologist and the Chairman of the Medanta Institute of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Sciences. He is known for his contributions in gastrointestinal oncology in India. He is a former co-chairman of the department of gastroenterology at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. Sud graduated in medicine (MBBS) from the

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in 1977 and started his career as a junior resident doctor at the

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in 1979. While working, he continued his studies at AIIMS to secure an MD in 1981 and followed it up with a DM in gastroenterology in 1983. He worked at AIIMS till 1985 and moved to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, where he worked for 25 years till his move to

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in 2010. In between, he also served as a visiting professor at the

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, Boston in 1999, at the

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(UTMB),

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and the

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. He is also an examiner for the

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examinations in Gastroenterology of the

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. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the

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, in 2008, for his contributions to medicine.

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