{"id":239806,"date":"2025-01-08T09:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/?p=239806"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:36:47","slug":"promotion-ceremony-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/promotion-ceremony-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PROMOTION CEREMONY \u2013 JANUARY 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>07<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;January 2025:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;In a simple ceremony, the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB) awarded the meritorious and broad banded promotion orders to the Faculty Members\/Staff and academic promotion orders to the Adjunct\/Core Faculty Members from the Teaching Hospital for their dedicated service and loyalty to the Tsa Wa Sum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Officiating President of the University handed over the orders along with Tashi Khaddar to the recipients, which was then followed by Suja Desi. Following were the recipients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/new.kgumsb.edu.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_7727-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239810\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Meritorious Promotion&nbsp;<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mr. Dechen Wangdi, Promoted to Senior ICT Associate II<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Broadbanded Promotion&nbsp;<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Medical Education Centre for Research, Innovation and Training (MECRIT<u>)&nbsp;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mr. Tshering Jamtsho, Promoted to Senior Research Officer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty of Nursing and Public Health (FNPH)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mr. Kuenzang, Promoted to Senior Lecturer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ms. Kinzang Yangden, Promoted to Lecturer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Pema Khandu, Promoted to Cook<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mr. Chandra Bdr. 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Karma Ugyen, Promoted to Senior Lecturer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine (FoPGM) \u2013 Academic Promotion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dr. Thukten Chophel, Promoted to Assistant Professor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Sonam Jamtsho, Promoted to Assistant Professor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dr. Lhacha Wangdi, Promoted to Assistant Professor<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The Officiating President congratulated the recipients for their dedicated service and motivated them to work with more dedication and loyalty in serving the University and the Tsa Wa Sum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07th&nbsp;January 2025:&nbsp;In a simple ceremony, the Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB) awarded the meritorious and broad banded promotion orders to the Faculty Members\/Staff and academic promotion orders to the Adjunct\/Core Faculty Members from the Teaching Hospital &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=239806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241527,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239806\/revisions\/241527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kgumsb.edu.bt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}