Dr. A.N Uma, Associate Professor of Medical Genetics, joined as Medical Geneticist in the Dept. of Anatomy, MGMCRI on 09.01.2006. She had been promoted as Vice-Principal, Allied Health Sciences on 01.05.2017. She completed her Masters in Bio-Medical Genetics and M.Phil in Genetics from PG IBMS, Chennai, Madras University. She did her Ph.D. in Medical Genetics, SBV University, Pondicherry. She also completed B.A & M.A in English, Annamalai University and B.Ed in English & Science, IGNOU, New Delhi. She is presently the Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Chronicle’, an Official Newsletter of SBV, Executive Editor of ‘Annals of SBV”, an in-house journal of SBV, and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Basic, Clinical and Applied Health Sciences (JBCAHS), an international peer-reviewed quarterly journal of SBV. She has won 18 best paper awards at various State, National and International levels and has also many publications in journals of high reputations to her credit.