Dr. Bharat Vaswani — Clinical Director - Medical Oncology & Haematology in Hyderabad

Dr. Bharat Vaswani is Clinical Director of Medical Oncology and Haematology and a Senior Consultant at Yashoda Hospitals in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, with more than 26 years of experience.

His treatment list is chemotherapy for cancer, cancer immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy for breast and for prostate cancer, covering the drug options across the common solid tumours.

His training runs from Nagpur to the United Kingdom. He read MBBS at Government Medical College in Nagpur in 2000 and took his MD in general medicine there in 2005, then his DM in medical oncology and haematology at Gujarat Cancer Research Institute in Ahmedabad in 2009, where he placed second. Advanced training followed with The Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, he took the European Certification in Medical Oncology in 2018, and in 2019 he gained MRCP-UK in medical oncology through The Association of Cancer Physicians.

Three qualifications examined outside India, taken in consecutive years in the middle of an established career, is an unusual pattern and the most distinctive feature of this record.

He also holds a postgraduate diploma in clinical research, again with second rank, and has worked at SevenStar Hospital in Nagpur and with South Central Railways.

His awards run from student prizes onward. He held the Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship for first rank in Nagpur district and a Hinduja Scholarship as best student, then took second rank in the national lung cancer quiz in Mumbai in 2019, the Late Dr. Indumati Tapnikar Oration Award in 2017, and the Vaidya Ratna Award in oncology for the same year.