Surgeon Vice Admiral Kavita Sahai took over as the Director General Medical Services (Navy) on Monday.
An alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College Pune, she was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in 1986. Vice Admiral Sahai specialised in Pathology and super-specialised in Oncopathology from AIIMS, New Delhi, and has been a professor and head of the Department, Lab Sciences at Army Hospital Research and Referral (AHRR) and Base Hospital Delhi Cantt (BHDC).
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Vice Admiral Sahai has also been a professor at Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune.
Before her current appointment, she was the first woman commandant of AMC Centre & College and O i/C Records.
Vice Admiral Sahai is also the first woman officer to be elected as Col Commandant of the Army Medical Corps.
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A recipient of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) fellowship for advancement of Med Education from Philadelphia, 2013-14, she was awarded the Sena Medal in 2024 and Vishisht Seva Medal in 2018.