Director's Message

Lt. Col (Dr) Vijaya Sagar (Retd.) is an experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry for more than 25 years with skills in Policy Analysis, Clinical Research, Emergency Management, Clinical Trials, and Science. Being aware of the fact that the medical education of the millennium is rapidly undergoing a paradigm change, the Symbiosis Medical College for Women, under his able guidance is driven by the passion to ensure that the outgoing under graduate medical professionals are globally competent.

With the institutional philosophy ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ in the backdrop, the SMCW is committed to make exemplary medical citizens who are socially and ethically driven. After serving the Indian Army Medical Corps for 24 years, primarily as a teacher of Human Anatomy at the Armed Forces Medical College Pune and Army College of Medical Sciences, Delhi Cantt, New Delhi, he had teaching stints at Goldfield Medical college in Faridabad and Azzezia Medical College in Kollam, Kerala, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai as Head of Dept. of Anatomy.

Apart from teaching anatomy there, he was instrumental in setting up the complete MOODLE LMS of the University, faculty training and multiple faculty development programs for skilling of teachers in use of LMS and academic e-content creation. Development funded National programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. As part of this responsibility, he was instrumental in setting up the Swayamprabha AV studios where video lectures in Human Anatomy are recorded and broadcast on Direct to Home Swayamprabha Educational TV channel of the Govt. of India. (Website url: https;//dth.ac.in/medical) While at Ramachandra, he underwent training in Soft embalming of Cadavers at University of Adelaide, South Australia and set-up India's first formalin free surgical skills cadaveric lab at Sri Ramachandra University.

SMCW & SUHRC are achieving greater heights with his dedicated efforts.