Awards
1. Nominated as Telemedicine domain expert for carrying out study visit at Kyrgyzstan &Kazakhstan for Asia e-Network project funding from Government of India from 26th Feb. to 7th March, 2014.
2. 21th to 13th December 2013: Nominated as member of the e-Health Technical Advisory Group (TAG), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva.
3. Member of the e-Health Technical Advisory Group (TAG)-2013
4. Short Term Assignment for ITU to conduct Mobile application workshop at Thimpu, Bhutan; 20-26 November 2011
5. Consultancy: Mobile e-Health Country Need Assessment and Feasibility Study, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Mission; Nepal, 24th May – 8th June 2011
6. Nominated as member by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Govt. of India to establish e-Network Project in four ASEAN Countries - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam (CLMV), 2011
1. Visiting Professor to Singapore National University Hospital, August 2016
2. Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England 2014
3. Fellow of College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, 2013
4. Visiting Professorship of MGR Medical University, TN
5. International Guest Scholarship of American College of Surgeons for the year 2008.
6. Diagnostic System Laboratories Prize for Best Poster Award for the year 2005, 35th Annual Conference of Endocrine Society of India, New Delhi, 2005
7. Membership of National Academy of Medical Sciences, (MNAMS), India, 2005
8. John Farndon award of International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, for the year 2004
9. UICC Fellowship (ICRETT) June 2004: Worked in the Breast Diagnostic Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London on the project “Breast Reconstruction with special emphasis on oncoplastic procedures” with Dr. Gerald Gui
10. Commonwealth fellowship for the year 2000-2001: Under this fellowship worked in the Nuffield department of surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. The project undertaken was “Human and experimental Islet Transplantation”.
11. UICC Fellowship (ICRETT): Worked in the dept. of Surgery, Division of Cardio thoracic Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Prof. APC Yim) for Training in Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, July2000 to Aug2000.
12. Travelling fellowship of International Association of Endocrine Surgeons to attend the ISS meeting at Vienna, 1999
13. Travel grants to attend the Annual meetings of Japanese Surgical Society-Fukuowa, 1999.
14. Travel grants to attend the Annual meetings of Japanese Surgical Society- Tokyo, 2000
15. Travel grants to attend the Annual meetings of Japanese Surgical Society-Sapporo, Japan, 2003
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
1. 1st Research Day Best research paper award (Professor, Surgical), SGPGIMS Lucknow, Dec 2020.
2. Member, Empowerment and Equity Opportunities for Excellence in Science (EMEQ)- Task Force Committee 2019, Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Govt. Of India
3. Member, Technical advisory group, Early detection of breast cancer (NPCDCS), Govt of U.P.
4. Member, Technical committee, NABH, Govt. of India 2017-2020.
5. Member, Min of Health, GoI expert panel for Breast Cancer Screening guidelines 2013-14.
6. International Faculty of the “Breast Surgery International” (BSI)
7. Member, WHO-ICMR expert panel- Breast cancer protocol development for India.
8. Member, Breast health global initiative USA expert panel for breast cancer protocols for LMICs
Fellowships/ Scholarships
9. Honorary Fellowship, International College of Laparoscopic Surgeons, 2012.
10. Fellow of American College of Surgeons, 2007
11. American College of Surgeons International Guest Scholarship, 2005
12. UICC-ICRETT Fellowship, University of Nagoya School of Medicine, May-June 2005.
13. T.S.Reeve international clinical fellowship in Endocrine surgery, University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW, Australia, 2000-2001.
14. Scholarship of the Robert Schumann foundation, France, (minimal invasive endocrine surgery) at the European Institute of Tele-surgery, and Hopital Civil, Strasbourg, France, November, 1999.
15. Nagoya Red-Cross Fellowship, Nagoya 2nd Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Japan, March 1999.
Best Paper Awards/ Orations/ Lecturer-ships
16. “Best Published paper in World Journal of Surgery award 2010-11” by Springer (at ISW 2013).
17. International guest Scholarship of the American College of Surgeons, 2005.
18. Best paper award (BSI) at 41st World Congress of Surgery of ISS/SIC 2005, Durban South Africa.
19. Annual key-note oration of Hong Kong society of Breast surgeons, 2020.
20. Dr Jhingran Memorial oration of UP IMA, Gorakhpur, 2019.
21. Dr SN Mathur oration of the UP chapter of Association of Surgeons of India, 2018.
22. Dr SP Shrivastav oration of Indian Medical Association (UP), 2015.
23. Brig (Dr) R Ganguly Oration of the Association of Surgeons of India, 2014.
24. Dr SC Misra oration of the UP chapter of Association of Surgeons of India, 2011.
25. JD Parekh oration award of Association of surgeons of India (Indore city chapter), March 2008.
26. IAES travel award 2005- for presentation at International surgical week 2005, Durban S. Africa.
27. DSL Best paper award of the Endocrine Society of India, 2004.
28. Best paper award at the 102nd Congress of Japan Surgical Society, Kyoto, Japan, 2002.
29. “Sole Reactor” in Basic Oncology Research session at 6th APCC, Manila, Philippines, Nov 2001.
30. Best paper award (basic research in breast cancer) at international conference on “Breast cancer in the new millennium”, Nagpur, 2000.
31. Best clinical paper award of the Endocrine Society of India, 1998.
32. Dr. R.K. Garg best paper (Best Thesis) award of U.P. chapter Assoc. of Surgeons of India, 1992.
33. Consolation Prize (poster), 2nd annual conference of U.P. chapter of ISG, 1992.
Merit Awards/ Scholarship
34. 3rd in order of merit in Final MBBS examination, 1988 of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
35. Awarded Department of ENT, BHU Silver Medal, 1988.
36. Awarded Department of ENT, BHU Merit Scholarship, 1988.
37. Distinctions in Forensic Medicine and Otolaryngology in MBBS Professional Exams.
38. Best MS (Surgery) Thesis in the state Award of the U.P. chapter of ASI of India, 1992.
Membership of societies
Academic Distinctions and Awards
1. Delivered “KD Verma Oration” entitled “Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: is it different in India” in 16th Annual meeting of the Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAESCON 2015) held at KEM Hospital Mumbai from October 2 to 4, 2015
2. Travel Grant for young surgeon, by Japanese Surgical society in 2002
3. International Society of Surgery Foundation (ISSF) Travel Scholar Award. Brussels, 2001
4. CSIR Traval Grant for attending 12th International Thyroid Congress 2000.
5. Best paper award at Nat-Con IASO 1999
6. Travel Grant for young surgeon, by Japanese Surgical society in 1999
7. Stood IVth in order in merit at M.B.B.S. exam
Reviewer
1. Lagenbech Archives of Surgery
2. Thyroid- official journal of American Thyroid Association
3. PLOS ONE
4. Indian Journal of Medical Research
5. Indian Journal of Surgery
6. International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
7. International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
8. BMC Cancer
9. Journal of Pancreas
10. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
11. Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
12. Endocrine
Editorship
1. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Thyroid Research August 2020
1. Dr. A. K. Sen Sharma Endowment Lecture on Minimally Invasive Endocrine Surgery at 77th Annual Congress of Association of Surgeons of India, at Jaipur from 26th to 30th Dec. 2017
2. Prof. S. N. Mathur Memorial Oration on our Experience of Endoscopic Thyroid Surgery at XLIII Annual Conference Association of Surgeons of India, UP Chapter at BHU, Varanasi from 17th to 19th Nov 2017
3. Prof. P. J. Deshpande Memorial Guest Lecture, on “Carcinoma Breast” by Department of Shalya Tantra, Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi on 1st Aug 2017
4. First Prize in Best Paper award on “Endoscopic Thyroidectomy through Breast and Axillary Approach: Initial Institutional Experience” in “9th Annual Conference of Society of Endoscopic and laparoscopic Surgeons of India & 9th Indian Hernia Society -2016 (9th SELSICON 2016 & 9th IHSCON 2016), at Agra from 4th – 6th Nov. 2016.
5. R.L. Gupta Subharti Oration on minimally invasive Endocrine surgery at 41st Annual Conference of Association of Surgeons of India, UP Chapter, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, 19th to 22nd Nov 2015
6. T.P. Banerjee Symposium on How to answer the question after podium presentation at 41st Annual Conference of Association of Surgeons of India, UP Chapter, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, 19th to 22nd Nov 2015
7. International Fellowship for Robotic Thyroid Surgery at Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, from May 25th 2015 to Aug 15th 2015.
8. Young Scientist Travel Grant award for future oriented presentation at 115th Annual Congress of Japan Surgical Society held in Nagoya, Japan 2015
9. Dr. A.K. Mehrotra Guest Lecture Award, for presenting guest lecture on Incidental Thyroid Carcinoma: A Management Dilemma, by Associations of Surgeons of India, U.P. & Uttrakhand Chapter, at Aligarh Muslim University on 14th to 16th Nov. 2014
10. First Prize in Best paper award, presented at 2nd annual conference of Society of Endo-Laparoscopic Surgeons of Agra- AGRA LAPCON 2014, from 4th to 5th Oct, 2014
11. DST International Travel Grant to attend “5th World Congress of IFHNOS & Annual Meeting of the AHNS-2014” at Marriott Marquis, New York City, NY, USA, from July 26th to 30th, 2014
12. Young Scientist Travel Grant to attend Annual Congress of Japan Surgical Society (JSS), Kyoto, Japan, 2014.
13. Young Outstanding Teacher Award from Associations of Surgeons of India, U.P. & Uttrakhand Chapter, awarded at Ghaziabad on 22nd Nov. 2013
14. First Prize on Quiz competition at Annual Conference of Northern Thyroid Society, NTSCON-2013, Saharanpur, UP. On 11th August 2013
15. Honorary membership of World federation of Surgical Oncology Societies (WESOS), Belgrade, Serbia on 18.04.2013
16. Honorary PhD. By Serbian Royal academy of scientists and Artists, Belgrade, Serbia on 18.04.2013
17. Honorary membership of Serbian Royal academy of scientists and Artists, Belgrade, Serbia on 18.04.2013
18. UICC Fellowship (ICRETT) 2010: Work in Head & Neck Services, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA (Prof.J.P.Shah) for Training in Advance Thyroid Cancer Surgery, Sept. 27th to 26th Oct. 2010.
19. Young Scientist Travel Grant to attend Annual Congress of Japan Surgical Society (JSS), Nagoya, Japan, 2010.
1. World Cancer Congress Travel Grant 2018.
2. John N Kapoor Travelling Fellowship 2016.
3. Vattikuti Global robotics Jan 30th- Feb 2nd New Delhi 2015.
4. Selected and attended the SGPGI-NIH workshop on Scientific paper writing Feb 27-March 1 2015.
5. ISSF Travel Scholar for the year 2015.
6. Professor Jothiramalingam Best paper award for best research at IAESCON Poovar 2014.
7. Best paper award for original research at TELEMEDICON 2014
8. Selected and attended the SGPGI-NIH workshop on observational studies Sep 19-21,2014.
9. First prize in quiz in Conference of Breast Cancer Foundation of India, KGMC Lucknow.
10. First prize in quiz in 11th Annual Conference ofI AES, Vellore..
11. Best Resident Award for the year 2011 – Foundation Day SGPGIMS, Lucknow.
12. Awarded the Travelling fellowship for attending Australian and New Zealand endocrine surgeons Post graduate Course
13. IAES Travel Grant for attending International Surgical Week (ISW),Yokohama Aug 28th-Sep1st 2011
14. CSIR Grant for attending International Surgical Week (ISW),Yokohama Aug 28th-Sep1st2011
15. ICMR Grant for attending International Surgical Week (ISW),Yokohama Aug 28th-Sep1st2011
16. Betadiene Young Surgeons Award by Association of Surgeons of India for the year 2010.