well established and here for you

Leadership Team

Innovative & Forward-Thinking

Meet Our Team

IASNM is dedicated to keeping diagnostic imaging at the cutting edge of medical innovation. Our mission is to connect Nuclear Medicine professionals of Indian origin—including physicians, scientists, radiochemists, technologists, and others—across the US, India, and worldwide.

Passionate and dynamic

Board of directors

BOD Members till June 2026 - 2-year term

Dr. Padmakar Kulkarni

Executive Director

Chitra Saxena, MPH

President

Khushboo Gupta, MD

Vice-President, and Chair, Membership Committee

Deepak P. Kalbi, MD

Secretary

Partha Sinha, MD, M.Tech, DRM, FACNM

Treasurer

Saima Muzahir, MD, FCPS

Chair, IASNM Radiant Flashpoint Webinar Series

Harshad Kulkarni

Chair, Industry Relations Committee

Nandkumar Menon, MD

Chair, Public Relations Committee

Abhinav K. Jha, Ph.D.

Chair, Physics and AI Committee

Vikas Prasad, MD, Ph.D.

Chair, Committee Development & Innovation

Ishani Dalal

BOD Member

Amol M. Takalkar, MD, MS, MBA, FACNM

Past President

Standing on the shoulders of giants

IASNM Past Presidents

Amol Takalkar, MD, MS, MBA, FACNM

President

Puneet Chandak, MD

2012 – 2015

Vibhudutta Awasthi, PhD

2011 – 2012

Alexander Kurikeshu, MD

2008 – 2010

Joseph Rajendran, MD, MBBS

2005 – 2007

Chaitnya R. Divgi, MD

2003 – 2005

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD

2001 – 2003

Pradeep Garg, PhD

1999 – 2001

Jagat Narula, MD, PhD

1998 – 1999

Christy John, PhD

1997 – 1998

Diwakar Jain, MD

1996 – 1997

Amolak Singh, MD

1995 – 1996

Lalitha Ramanna, MD

1994 – 1995

Mathew Thakur, PhD

1993 – 1994

Mohan Makhija, MD

1992 – 1993

G.V.S. Rayudu, PhD

1991 – 1992

Tuhin Chaudhuri, MD

1990 – 1991

Suresh Srivastava, PhD

1989 – 1990

Padmakar Kulkarni, Ph.D.

1988 – 1989

C. Chandarlapaty, MD

1987 – 1988

Vijay M. Varma, MD

1986 – 1987

G.T. Krishnamurthy, MD

1985 – 1986

Gopal Subramanian, PhD

1984 – 1985

Leadership Team​