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.