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Rahul M. Jindal MD Ph.D
Dr. Rahul M. Jindal is currently a Transplant Surgeon at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Professor of Surgery and Global Health at Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Mary...view moreDr. Rahul M. Jindal is currently a Transplant Surgeon at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Professor of Surgery and Global Health at Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Jindal is a visiting professor in several universities in India and the U.K.
Jindal is the author of over 150 manuscripts; has been funded by the National Institute of Health. Jindal’s research work and publications have been cited in text books and have been accompanied by editorials. Jindal has played a crucial role on the medical team that conducted ground-breaking surgery at Walter Reed AMC on Thanksgiving Day in 2009. A 21-year old senior airman, Tre Porfirio was shot three times by an insurgent in Afghanistan; he received the first ever pancreas islet cell transplant after trauma.
Dr. Jindal setup the first comprehensive kidney dialysis and transplant program in Guyana, South America. His team visits Guyana 4 times a year and has performed numerous surgical procedures. Recently, Jindal’s team added corneal transplant program to their existing work in Guyana. Jindal endowed a scholarship (Rahul M. Jindal travel fellowship) which will enable selected final year medical students to carry out electives in medical schools in India. He is the Co-Chair of SEVAK Program (www.sevakproject.org) in which his team trains high school students in good preventative measures and diagnosis of diabetes and hypertension in India and Guyana where there are no medical facilities. Jindal narrated the Guyana experience in his book “The story of the first kidney transplant in Guyana, South America, and lessons learnt for other developing countries (Publisher: iUniverse, 2009. ISBN: 9-78144-017387-5).
In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Jindal earned a PhD in Social Psychology from the Middlesex University, London, for his work on improving quality of life in patients with kidney failure and kidney transplants. Based on his experience in working with psycho-social issues in this group of patients, Dr. Jindal co-authored a book entitled “The Struggle for Life: A Psychological Perspective of Kidney Disease and Transplantation, (Publisher: Praeger, Westport, CT, USA, 2003, ISBN: 0-86569-323-4”
Dr. Jindal recently received the Leadership Award by the “International Leadership Foundation” Washington, DC, 2013. He also received the Outstanding American by choice award by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2013. Governor of Maryland appointed Jindal as Commissioner, Office on Service and Volunteerism, Maryland (2013) and Commissioner to the Human Rights Commission, Montgomery County, Maryland (2014). Jindal was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair to carry out research and teaching in India for 2015-6; and also the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, 2015.view less