How I was trained
I qualified MBBS, then completed my MD, and went on to a fellowship in Paediatric Haematology & Oncology at B.J. Wadia Hospital for Children in Mumbai, completed in 2020 — followed by fellowship training in bone marrow transplant.
That paediatric foundation taught me something that has stayed with every adult patient since: that a diagnosis lands on a whole family, and that explaining it well is part of the medicine, not an afterthought to it.
The Advani tradition
I practise in the lineage of Dr. Suresh Advani — the medical oncologist who pioneered bone-marrow transplantation in India and shaped how cancer is treated here. Today I work under and alongside him at his daycare chemotherapy centre at Sushrut Hospital, Chembur.
Practising in that tradition is not a credential I borrow. It is a standard I’m held to: precise about the science, patient with the person.
How I practise
I speak with my patients in Gujarati, Hindi, English and Marathi, and I understand Bengali too — and this site speaks all five, because no one should have to understand a cancer diagnosis in a language they only half-think in.
I don’t promise outcomes; no honest doctor can. I promise that you will always understand what is happening, that I will tell you the truth gently, and that you won’t walk the road alone.