Chairman - Governing Board

Dr. H. Sudarshan

Dr. H Sudarshan is well known in the field of Primary Health Care, Tribal Health and Health Activism. He is the Winner of the Right Livelihood Award, which is alternate to Nobel Prize. He is the former Chairman of the Karnataka Task Force on Health and Family Welfare; is also the former Vigilance Director, Lokayukhta, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore. He manages VGKK and Karuna Trust and under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) with State Government, he is managing more than 25 PHC's.

He specializes in teaching Primary Health Care, Good Governance and NGO Management.

Director & Professor

Dr Kishore Murthy

MBBS, PGHMS(IIM-B),
M Phil (BITS Tulane USA)

Dr. Kishore Murthy is a Medical Graduate from St. Johns Medical College, Bangalore with Post Graduate qualifications in Hospital and Health Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Tulane University/BITS, Pilani. He has over 2 decades of experience in the field of Hospital and Health Care Administration in teaching, research and consultancy. Have been teaching in various Hospital management institutes such as IHMR- Bangalore, KMC Manipal, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Bangalore which has a 2year MHA programme ( member of the syllabus committee ) and guided a number of students in their dissertation activities. He teaches operations management and strategic management.

He has served as Chief Executive Officer of several leading hospitals in the city. He has set up several hospitals which included from conceptual planning to commissioning various hospital projects such as Puttaparthy Super Speciality Hospital, Bangalore Hospital, Hosmat etc. Till recently, he was with A.F Ferguson & Co. as the National Senior Manager incharge of their Hospital and Health Care consulting practice for the whole country and presently, he is the Chief Operating Officer of Healthcare Global enterprises Ltd, a well known cancer care company which owns and operates more than 15 cancer hospitals in the country to deliver accessible and affordable quality cancer care. Earlier he was CEO of Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital a 200 bed Multi Speciality Hospital. He was also associated with the World Bank, UNDP, WHO & Government of Karnataka ( KHSDP ) and Government of India as a consultant and carried out several assignments including research for these Organisations in Health Care and Hospital Management.

He has been an active organizer and planner of several community outreach programmes both for the various hospitals he has been associated with especially St. Johns Medical College, Sri Sathya Sai Institute and also with several Non-Government Organisations and other Organisations. He was involved as a consultant with the Task Force on Health Government of Karnataka and was the prime author on public private partnership in health care, medical tourism. He was actively involved with the planning and implementation of the World Bank aided Government Hospitals Project to improve the Government Hospitals and deliver quality care. He is an active researcher on community based problems in health care especially with focus on hospital and health care administration. He is involved academically also by conducting various training and research programmes in hospital and health care administration for the State Government and Indira Gandhi National Open University. He has trained a No. of medical professionals in hospital and health care management. He is also an advisor to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and helped the university in preparing the syllabus of the post graduate course in hospital and health care administration. He is an active member of professional bodies such as IMA, AHA etc.

Mr. N.S.N. Rao, Professor

Dr. Lizzy Sunny,  Associate Professor

Dr. Lizzy Sunny is a specialist in Epidemiology. She has almost two decades of combined experience in epidemiological research in India, Finland and Sweden. She has Masters Degree in Science from Gandhiji University, Kerala, India; Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Tampere University, Finland; and she did one year Post-doctoral in Clinical Cancer Epidemiology from Gothenburg University, Sweden. She also worked with Pharmaceutical Consulting Company and Biotech Company as Senior Epidemiologist. She has published several scientific research articles in international peer reviewed journals and contributed for several monographs.

Dr. Lizzy Sunny is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at IHMR, Bangalore. Her interests include capacity building in epidemiology, conducting community based epidemiological research for finding the etiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases and conducting community based disease control activities.

Mrs. Minakshi Gautam, Lecturer - Hospital Management

Mrs. Minakshi Gautam is an alumni of Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, where she has successfully completed her MBA in Hospital Administration. She has 7 years of enriching work experience in various Corporate Hospitals and Hospital Consultancies like Hospicon Consultants, Max Hospital, Sir Gangaram Hospital & Fortis Hospital with expertise in hospital operations, new hospital projects and telemedicine. Currently at IHMR, Bangalore she teaches Hospital Planning & Design, functioning of various hospital departments, quality management, telemedicine and other related subjects.

Ms. Deepshikha Kuar, Lecturer

Dr. Bhavana Naik, Senior Research - Training Officer

Mr. Vinay Tripathi, Research Officer

Mr. Nityananda Hegde, Accounts Officer

Ms. Deepa Morwani, HR Officer

Mr. Satish Kumar, System Administrator

Having expertise in computer hardware and IT applications, he is the backbone of the institute's IT infrastructure.

Ms. Pushpa Bai, Asst. Librarian

Mr. Prakash K., Placement Officer