Arti Sarin

Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin, AVSM, VSM is a serving flag officer in the Indian Navy.

At AFMC, she completed her MBBS degree,[4] passing out in the same batch as future Director General Medical Services (Army) Sadhna Saxena Nair.

She then earned a DNB degree in Radiation Oncology from the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai[6] and was trained in Gamma Knife Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

[7] Sarin was commissioned in the Armed Forces Medical Services on 26 December 1985 as a lieutenant (surgeon sub-lieutenant).

She has several publications in Indian and international Journals and has contributed to chapters in books on liver disease and assisted reproduction, respectively.

[16] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she oversaw the design and development of innovative solutions and set up quarantine facilities in the Southern Naval Command.

[12] On 17 June 2020,[17] Sarin was promoted to the rank of Surgeon Rear Admiral, with seniority from 2 March 2020.

[18] She is the second woman to have held the appointment of CMO at SNC, the first being Surgeon Rear Admiral Nirmala Kannan.

On 31 January 2021, in a rare event of a change of command between two women flag officers, she took over from Surgeon Rear Admiral Sheila S.

[25] After a short stint, in March 2023, she was appointed Director General Medical Services (Navy) in the rank of Surgeon Vice Admiral.

Sarin as the DGMS (Air) in the rank of Air Marshal .