Pro bono Director, Aakar Asha Hospital, (a non-profit Centre for Reconstructive Surgery)

Academics and career:

• MCh in Plastic Surgery, Stanley Medical College 1990
• Fellowship in Microsurgery at RAH, Adelaide, Australia 1991
• Registrar and SR at St Andrews HospBillericay and St Lawrence Hosp, Chepstow, UK 1992 -93
• Lecturer in Plastic Surgery, CMC Vellore 1994
• Consultant Hand and Microsurgeon HKL, Kuala Lumpur, 1995-96
• Senior Consultant Apollo hospital from Dec 1996-Oct 2013
  

Professional career:

• Highest number of microsurgical jejunum transfers for pharyngeal reconstruction in India.
• Described the trans-axillary endoscopic approach for congenital torticollis, (IJPRAS 2007)
• Pioneered endoscopic Reconstructive Surgery in India
• Pioneered the creative HANDS ON MINDS Basic Surgical Skills workshops and conducted 18 since 2001, training nearly 670 doctors.

Service to society:

• Organized the first Rural Rotaract Eye camp in the world 1981
• Organized multi-speciality camps in 1981-83
• Led the Apollo Medical Relief team to the Supercyclone affected areas of Orissa 1999
• Conducted 85 screening camps for physically disabled persons across Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha and did more than 2500 Reconstructive surgeries free of cost.