Ramesh Verma

Hospital design and construction expert and certified trainer in diversity Ramesh C. Verma has been named by Michigan’s Governor Jennifer Granholm to the Commission on Services to the Aging. Verma, who is currently a consultant with Hanscomb Faithful & Gould at Farmington Hills, MI, will serve from April 1, 2004 to July 28, 2006.

Verma has been with the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor, MI, from 1983 to 1996, where he rose to director of Design, Construction and Utilities Office. From 1996 to 1998, he was director, Design and Construction with Henry Ford Health System in Detroit’

Verma was born in Burma and was brought up in India. After engineering school, he joined Indian Army as a commissioned officer. He worked along with diverse groups of people and learned their languages and religions. He left Indian Army as captain and came to the U.S. in 1972. He lives in Novi.

In 1996 the University of Michigan Medical Center named an award after him, the Ramesh Verma Diversity Award. He was the first recipient of the award. Verma told News India-Times that he is not only an advocate of diversity; he has woven diversity into the very fabric of his being. His father was a Hindu and his mother a Sikh, and at home he practiced both religions.