About API India
The Association of Physicians of India is a professional body of consultant physicians formed in 1944. Its members are physicians with postgraduate qualifications in different specialties. Currently, the membership of the association is 19,500 and it is increasing every year. Obviously, this Association is the most elite physician’s fraternity in India. This Association conducts various educational and professional activities for its members throughout the year.
The Association of Physicians of India is a professional body of consultant physicians formed in 1944.
The vision of a few stalwart Physicians of India gave birth to the idea of forming the Association of Physicians of India in 1944 mainly to provide a common forum to the Physicians of India to meet and share experience and research observations in the field of Medicine.
Names of the Founder Members of The Association of Physicians of India.
- Dr. M.R. Guruswamy, Madras
- Dr. Jivraj N. Mehta, Mumbai
- Col. Amir Chand, Delhi
- Dr. Mangaldas J. Shah, Mumbai
- Dr. M.D.D Gilder, Mumbai
- Dr. George Coelho, Mumbai
- Dr. J.C. Banerjee, Calcutta
- Dr. M.N. De, Calcutta
- Dr. N.D. Patel, Mumbai
The First President of API was Dr. Jivraj N. Mehta from Bombay in the year 1944.
Governing Body
| President Elect | President | Past President |
| Girish Mathur (Kota) (2023) | Shyam Sundar (Varanasi) (2023) | Kamlesh Tewary (Muzaffarpur) (2022) |
| Vice Presidents | ||
| N K Soni (Greater Noida) (2023) | AP Misra (New Delhi) (2024) | V Palaniyyappen (Dindigul, TN) (2025) |
| Hon. General Secretary | Jt. Secretary (HQ) | Hon. Treasurer |
| Agam C Vora (Mumbai) (2025) | Ashit M Bhagwati (Mumbai) (2025) | Charu K Jani (Mumbai) (2023) |
| Members | ||
| CL Nawal (Jaipur) (2023) | Munish Prabhakar (Gurgaon) (2024) | Anupam Prakash (New Delhi) (2025) |
| Nihar Mehta (Mumbai) (2023) | S Sreenivasa Kamath (Kochi) (2024) | Sangram S Biradar (Gulbarga) (2025) |
| RM Chhabra (New Delhi) (2023) | Narayan Deogaonkar (Nashik) (2024) | Pramod Kumar Sinha (Gaya) (2025) |
| RN Sarkar (Kolkata) (2023) | Sekhar Chakraborty (Siliguri) (2024) | Puneet Saxena (Jaipur) (2025) |
| Devi Ram (Purnia) (2023) | DP Singh (Bhagalpur) (2024) | PS Karmakar (Kolkata) (2025) |
| Naval Chandra (Hyderabad) (2023) | Pradeep Bhaumik (Agartala) (2025) |
| Zonal Members | |
| North Zone | Mid South Zone |
| Atul Bhasin (New Delhi) (2023) | Ravikeerthy M (Bangalore) (2023) |
| North West Zone | South Zone |
| Ashok K Taneja (Gurugram) (2023) | S Chandrashekar (Chennai) (2023) |
| Central Zone | Mid East Zone |
| G.D. Ramchandani (Kota) (2023) | Jayanta Kumar Panda (Cuttack) (2023) |
| West Zone | East Zone |
| Amit A Saraf (Thane) (2023) | Udas Ghosh (Kolkata) (2023) |
| Invited Member | Ex-Officio Member | Co-opted Members |
| Editor-in-Chief, API Text Book | Dean, ICP | Jt. Secretary (President’s place) |
| Shashank R Joshi (Mumbai) | Alaka Deshpande (Mumbai) | AK Singh (Varanasi) |
| Editor-in-Chief, JAPI | Director, PRF | Armed Forces, Medical Services |
| Mangesh Tiwaskar (Mumbai) | Gurpreet Singh Wander (Ludhiana) | |
| Chairman, API House Committee | Organising Secretary, APICON 2022 (Jaipur) | |
| Milind Y Nadkar (Mumbai) | Puneet Saxena (Jaipur) | |
| Organising Secretary, APICON 2023 (Ahmedabad) | ||
| Banshi Saboo (Ahmedabad) |
Indian College of Physicians
Faculty Council (2022-2023)
| Chairman | Dean | Dean Elect |
| Shyam Sundar (Varanasi) (2023) | Alaka Deshpande (Mumbai) (2023) | Jyotirmoy Pal (Talpukar) (2023) |
| Vice Deans | Hon. Gen. Secretary | Past Dean |
| _____________________________(2023) | Agam C Vora (Mumbai) (2025) | Rajesh Upadhyay (New Delhi) (2022) |
| Y Satyanarayana Raju (Hyderabad) (2024) | ||
| BB Rewari (New Delhi) (2025) | ||
| Jt. Secretary (H.Q.) | Jt. Secretary (Dean's place) | Hon. Treasurer |
| Ashit M Bhagwati (Mumbai) (2025) | Rakesh Bhadade (Mumbai) (2023) | Charu K Jani (Mumbai) (2023) |
| Elected Members | ||
| Prakash Keswani (Jaipur) (2023) | MPS Chawla (New Delhi) (2024) | Ghanshyam Pangtey (New Delhi) (2025) |
| K Mugundhan (Chennai) (2023) | Soumitra Ghosh (Kolkata) (2024) | Prem Shankar Sharma (Bhagalpur)(2025) |
| Udai Lal (Hyderabad) (2023) | Sanjeev Maheshwari (Ajmer) (2024) | Ashish Kumar Saha (Kolkata) (2025) |
| Narinder Pal Singh (New Delhi) (2023) | R Rajasekar (Kumbakonam) (2024) | SG Kulkarni (Raigad) (2025) |
| President Elect | Editor-in-Chief, JAPI | Director - PRF | Editor-in-Chief, API Text Book |
| Girish Mathur (Kota) | Mangesh Tiwaskar (Mumbai) | GS Wander (Ludhiana) | Shashank R Joshi (Mumbai) |
Plot No. 98/B, Sector 15, Institute Lane, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai – 400614.
API HOUSE COMMITTEE
| Chairperson | |
| Dr. Milind Y Nadkar | |
| Secretary | |
| Dr. Agam C Vora, Mumbai | |
| Treasurer | |
| Dr. C. K. Jani, Mumbai | |
| President (Ex-Officio) | |
| President | President Elect |
| Dr. Shyam Sundar, Varanasi | Dr. Girish Mathur, Kota |