 He served as the honorary surgeon to R. Venkataraman, the eighth President of India, and as a consultant surgeon at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.He delivered keynote addresses in many international medical conferences and contributed chapters to two medical texts, "Oxford Textbook of Surgery" and "Recent Advances in Surgery".He was involved with the activities of the Association of Surgeons of India as its secretary and, later, as president and also headed the Indian Society of Gastroenterology as its president in 1983.