The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka's Health University, has reconstituted its senate and syndicate. Among the appointments that have been effected is Dr H Sudarshan Ballal, director of Manipal Institute of Nephrology and Urology (MINU) and the chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of Manipal Hospitals (MHS). He has been appointed as a member of the reconstituted senate for a three-year tenure.

Dr Ballal is a Karnataka Rajyotsava award recipient. He recently became one of the few Indians to have been awarded an honorary FRCP without having worked or trained at any of the hospitals in UK. A graduate of the Kasturba Medical College, Dr Ballal set up MINU at Bangalore which conducted the first cadaver kidney transplant in the state.