Research & Innovation
Awards & Recognition
Sixty-two awards and medals, including fifteen gold medals — and, for three consecutive years, a place among Stanford University's “World's Top 2% Scientists.”
62 awards and medals in total, including 15 gold medals, and multiple ASSI / DOA publication and research awards (2012–2026). The selection below highlights the most significant; honours marked in brass are top-tier national and international recognition.
Selected highlights
- Stanford University “World’s Top 2% Scientists”
- NASI–Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award, Biological Sciences
- Global Spine Journal Best Paper Award (APC / EOS)
- Sitaram Jaipuria Award — Emerging Young Leader in Medicine
- Award for Best New Methodologies & Techniques to Enhance Safety in Spine Surgery
- DMA Distinguished Medical Services Award in Orthopaedics
- IMA Academic Award
- Medical Dialogues Blackbuck Research Award
- Nuvasive SICOT Award & SICOT/ASSI Basic Sciences Awards
- IOA Silver Jubilee Oration Award
- GAPIO Karl Storz Surgical Excellence Award
- Asia-Pacific Mimics Innovation Award
- DBT Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award
- Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (FlexiOH™)
- Honorary Fellow, Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO)
- IOA Hong Kong Ambassador Award
- DBT Biotech Product Commercialisation Award
- DMA Gold Medal — Best Outgoing Medical Graduate of Delhi
Recognition in progress
- Selected for the Vattikuti Foundation KS International Innovation Awards 2026 (Miami, April 2026) for his robotic complex spinal deformity work — chosen through a rigorous, multi-layered international evaluation by leading surgeons worldwide.
- Selected for induction into the ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.