MD DNB FCPS FICOG LLB DGO DHA
- Practicing gynaecologist,medico-legal expert & noted health right activist
- Consultant GynaecologistNanawati Hospital&Cloudnine group of hospitals
- Partner at Lifewave Hospital LLP
- Honorary Head of the unit and Post graduate medical teacher at R N Cooper Municipal Hospital
- Founder President of Patient Safety Alliance, An NGO that works on empowering patients and supporting health care professionals to prevent medical errors.( www.patientsafetyalliance.in)
- Fought famous case of his patient Niketa Mehta challenging the MTP Act in 2008. We all remember that she was carrying an abnormal fetus and had approached Bombay high court seeking permission to abort the fetus. He is still fighting for the women’s right in the supreme court .
- Was interviewed in the famous TV show “SatyamevJayate” by Aamir Khan for his exemplary work on Gender sensitive protocol on examination and evidence collection of survivors of sexual assault.He was invited for national consultation appointed on high level committee by WHO and the Government of India on national think tank.
- He was recently appointed as a consultant by URC- USAID to work on quality improvement in maternal health with seven state governments in India
- He was awarded a fellowship by the International federation of health and human rights organizations in 2010
- He was the recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth fellowship from UKand worked on the “patient safety” in the UK and WHO in 2009.
- He sits on the advisory board of Asian center for entertainment and education (sister concern of Hollywood Health Society) along with eminent Bollywood personalities.
- Recipient of DrPurandare gold medal and DrDastur gold medal during academic career
- He is the former chairman of Association of Medical Consultants a body of over 7000 medical consultants in the city of Mumbai, was the national coordinator of the FOGSI , the national body of gynaecologists in the country and past president of Association of fellow gynaecologists.
