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Dr. B.D. Gupta is currently Professor-Emeritus of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGI), Chandigarh, and former Adviser to the first National Project on “Telemedicine Technology for Optimising Medical Resources of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India. Dr. Gupta got his medical training MBBS and MD degree in Radiology from S.N. Medical College, Agra. He then proceeded to the United Kingdom for higher studies in Radiotherapy and Oncology  a discipline which was not existing in India during those days. Dr. Gupta was awarded the prestigious Fellowship FRCR from Royal College of Radiologists, London, in 1967. He was specially invited in 1968 by the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi to join as Assistant Professor in Radiotherapy. Dr. Gupta has many firsts to his credit. He established an independent Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology of PGIMER Chandigarh in 1971. It is this department which rolled out the first candidate of MD Radiotherapy in the country in 1973. He is a Founder-Member of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of Atomic Energy Commission founded in 1983 by the then Prime Minister of India. He is also a Founder-Member of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (The National Body of Radiation Oncologists). He was assigned the Presidentship during its formative years. Dr. Gupta was a key person in the development of the first indigenous high-tech Linear Accelerator in collaboration with the CSIO Chandigarh and SAMEER Mumbai in the last decade of the 20th century. Dr. Gupta was awarded Dr. B.C. Roy Award, the National Award for a renowned medical teacher, and National Cancer Research Award by the ICMR, New Delhi. He retired from PGIMER Chandigarh in 1994 as Professor & Head of the Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, after serving for 25 years. He was subsequently requested by the Government of Punjab to take up the assignment of Director-Principal of a new medical college – Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences to be established Jalandhar. Dr. Gupta is a WHO consultant and was deputed to many countries on short-term assignments for establishment of Radiotherapy and Oncology facilities; to name a few Sri Lanka and Mangolia.