{"id":20072,"date":"2025-06-20T09:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.kgumsb.edu.bt\/?page_id=20072"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:26:30","slug":"governing-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/governing-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Governing Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nGoverning Council\n<p style=\"color:white;\">In accordance with the University of Medical Sciences Act of Bhutan 2012, the Governing Council is the supreme governing authority for the University that shall be accountable to the Government.\n<\/p>\n<h3>The Council is consist of thirteen members:<\/h3>\n<p style='color:white'>Three Government representatives appointed by the Government:\n<\/p>\n\nAn eminent person as the Chairperson of the Council; and\nTwo members of high integrity with unblemished work experience in the public or private sector.\n\n<p style='color:white'>Seven University representatives:\n<\/p>\n\nPresident, ex-officio;\nHead of one of the teaching hospitals, ex-officio;\nThe Registrar of the University as the member secretary;\nTwo Deans elected from amongst the Deans; and\nTwo students elected by the Students Affairs Committee.\n\n<p style='color:white'>Two representatives of the Professional Associations nominated by the heads of the respective associations.\n\n<\/p>\n<p style='color:white'>One representative of the general public having high moral and social standing nominated by the Governing Council.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3>The following are the current Governing Council Members with their tenure:\n<\/h3>\n\n\nSl.No\nName of the Members\nProvisions as per the University Act\nTenure\n\n\n1\nH.E. Lyonpo Tandin Wangchuk, Hon\u2019ble Health Minister (Hon\u2019ble Chairperson)\nGovernment representative\n5 years\n\n\n2\nMr. Pemba Wangchuk, Hon\u2019ble Secretary, Ministry of Health (Member)\nGovernment representative\n3 years\n\n\n3\nMs. Deki Wangmo, Director, Department of Planning, Budget and Performance, Ministry of Finance (Member)\nGovernment representative\n3 years\n\n\n4\nPresident, Office of the President, KGUMSB (Member)\nUniversity Representative\nEx-officio\n\n\n5\nDr. Mimi Lhamu Mynak, President, National Medical Services (Member)\nHead of Teaching Hospital Representative\nEx-officio\n\n\n6\nDrungtsho Sangay Wangdi, Dean, Faculty of Traditional Medicine, KGUMSB (Member)\nUniversity Representative\n3 years\n\n\n7\nDr. Guru Prasad Dhakal, Dean, Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine, KGUMSB (Member)\nUniversity Representative\n3 years\n\n\n8\nMr. Kezang Tshering, Head of Department, Pharmacy, JDWNRH (Member)\nMedical and Technical Representative\n3 years\n\n\n9\nMs. Chimi Lhamu, Nursing Superintendent, JDWNRH (Member)\nNursing Representative\n3 years\n\n\n10\nDr. \u2026\u2026.., Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine, KGUMSB (Member)\nStudent Representative\n1 year\n\n\n11\nMr. Jigme Thinley, Faculty of Nursing and Public Health (Member)\nStudent Representative\n1 year\n\n\n12\nMr. Jigme Thinley, Faculty of Nursing and Public Health (Member)\nPublic Representative\n3 years\n\n\n13\nDr. Kuenzang Chhezom, Registrar, Office of the President, KGUMSB (Member Secretary)\nUniversity Representative\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20072","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20072"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20104,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20072\/revisions\/20104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}