Dr. D.R. Arora, M.D., Ph.D., M.N.A.M.S., Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology, S.G.T. Medical College, Hospital & Research Institute, Budhera (Gurgaon); formerly Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak (Haryana); Lead Assessor, Faculty Member and Member Technical Committee, National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), New Delhi; Member NABL Accreditation Committee-1 (Core Committee); Principal Assessor, National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH), New Delhi; Reviewing Officer, National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), New Delhi; Member, Technical Resource Group on Laboratory Services, National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi.

He has done more than 160 assessments of medical laboratories as per ISO 15189, 12 assessments of blood banks as per NABH criteria and 4 NABET assessments of training institutions. He has more than 40 years of teaching experience in microbiology including parasitology to medical, dental and nursing undergraduate and postgraduate students. Besides conducting and supervising research in microbiology, He has published six textbooks of microbiology and parasitology, and 150 research articles in several national and international journals of repute.

The results of his research on malaria parasites and Klebsiella pneumoniae have been cited in World Health Organization WHO/MAL/83.10003 and Topley & Wilson’s Microbiology and Microbial Infections, Bacteriology Vol. 2, 10th ed., 2005, respectively. He has supervised a number of PG students of Ph.D., M.D. and M.S. In appreciation of outstanding research carried out by me in India on bacteriocins of Klebsiella pneumoniae, He was awarded Smt. Kunti Mehrotra Award of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists in 1983.

In recognition of significant contribution for the advancement of medical sciences, he was elected Member of National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) in 1985. He has been a Visiting Professor in University of Mauritius in 1989. He was awarded WHO fellowship on Laboratory Aspects of HIV/AIDS and STD at Community Health Surveillance and Laboratories Administration, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) in 1992. He was honored by Indian Medical Association, Kaithal (Haryana) on the eve of Doctors’ Day on 01.07.1999. He has been examiner for B.D.S., M.B.B.S., M.D., D.N.B. and Ph.D. microbiology of a number of universities.