 After securing his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, he worked for brief periods at Western General Hospital, Royal Alexandra Hospital and St Mark's Hospital.On his return to India, he joined Thanjavur Medical College as an honorary surgeon in the temple town of Thanjavur in 1964 where he established the department of general surgery and a clinic dedicated for gastrointestinal diseases.He introduced Vagotomy and was known to have performed his first Hepatectomy there.