Doctors Profile

Achievements / Awards

• Prof and Surgical Oncologist & Director –Asian Cancer Institute- Mumbai,
• Bombay Hospital Professor Surgical Oncology M.Ch Teacher – Mumbai University, DNB Teacher, MCH & DNB examiner across India.
• Principal investigator and co-investigator in multiple trials in Cancer Treatment in India and Abroad.
• Teaching undergraduate and post graduate students General Surgery since 1979 till 1998.
• Post Graduate Teacher Oncosurgery
• Conducted / Attended many Social Service Camps and arranged free cancer detection camps, Breast Clinics, Educational Lectures for general public and medical practitioner all over India.
• Founder secretary for Grameen Kark Rog Ujagar Yojna. (Rural Cancer Detection Program Conducting Camps all across India, Mainly Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra & Chattisgarh
• Organised many Breast Cancer awareness programs for past ten years, with Rural Health Care workers
• Member in Editorial Board in many Journals on Cancer namely, Indian Journal of Cancer, IJSO, SAJO.
• Honary Member in the Board of Directors in many Research Pharmaceuticals Organization.
• Ex. Prof. & Surgeon, Head Dept. of Thoracic Oncology & Breast Services at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, 1985 till 1st September 2003.
• Over 100 Publication in National and International PEER reviewed journals on varied subjects from Breast Cancer to Esophageal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Stenting, Laser, Endo- bronchial surgery.
• Contribution in three books : Chapters on history of GI Cancer, Radical Esophagectomy, Cancer Esophagus Management Indian Experience.
• Written Book on “Breast Cancer Management” published by BCFI 2013.
• Over 2000 Guest lectures , symposiums, orations in India & abroad on Cancer Esophagus, Cancer Lung, Cancer Breast, Cancer Stomach, GI malignancies, Pancreatic Cancer Ovarian and Cervical Cancer
• Nargis Dutt Foundation Fellowship to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, U.S.A 1982.
• Fellowship in Thoracic Oncology And Special Training in Endoscopic Laser Surgery at Stanford Medical Centre, Stanford University, U.S.A. (8Weeks) 1988.
• Varun Mahajan Fellowship to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, U.S.A. (Training in Laser Surgery and Lung Cancer Treatment) 1988.
• Special Fellowship at Cornell University, New York, U.S.A. (Specialised in Oesophageal Cancer Surgery) Dr. David Skinner 1991.
• International Society of Diseases of “Oesophagus Fellowship for training in Oesophageal Cancer Surgery, Kurume University, Fakuoka, Japan (Oct.-Dec. 1991). Pioneer in starting 3 field esophagectomy in India.
• Since then from Jan. 1992 performed over 500, 3 field dissection (Japanese Technique) operation for Oesophageal Cancer with good results.
• Training in Robotic Cancer Surgery, at Rosewell Park cancer Hospital of USA 2012Training in Robotic Cancer Surgery, Jeweish Hospital Seattle, USA in Esophageal Surgery 2012.