Dr Rajeev Agarwal has practised surgery for more than four decades. He trained at GSVM Medical College, Kanpur (M.B.B.S. 1978, M.S. Surgery 1982), Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi and Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, where he completed a fellowship in surgical oncology in 1986. This page records some of the recognition and academic work from that career.
He was recognised as a surgeon of national repute at the silver jubilee function of GSVM Medical College, Kanpur, and was invited as faculty to the International Conference on Palliative Care organised by the Vatican in Rome in 2004, where he presented a paper on palliative care in the Hindu context. He is a member of the Indian Society of Oncology, the Association of Surgeons of India, the Indian Association of Palliative Care, the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO).
