Dr. Rohit Ramesh Pai — Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Rohit Ramesh Pai is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital in Mumbai, with more than 10 years of experience. He is listed in both medical oncology and hematology, and his qualifications are MBBS, MD, DM, MRCP (UK), MRCP (SCE) and DNB.

That string of six is worth reading slowly. DM and DNB are the two Indian routes to a medical oncology qualification and he holds both. MRCP (UK) is a physicians' membership taken in the United Kingdom, and MRCP (SCE) is its specialty examination, so he has been examined on the same material under two national systems. For an international patient the practical point is that his training is legible in the UK as well as in India.

His procedures are the standard classes of drug treatment: chemotherapy for cancer, cancer immunotherapy and targeted therapy for cancer, with hormone therapy listed separately for breast, prostate and gynecologic cancers.

He is associated with Gleneagles Hospital in Parel, with Bombay Hospital and with BYL Nair Hospital, all in Mumbai; the same three centres appear under his education, so his clinical work and his training have run through the same institutions.

He was ranked first in India in the AIIMS postgraduate entrance examination in 2009, which is the single most competitive medical entrance in the country. He has also spoken at TEDx, in a talk titled Rewriting the Cancer Narrative. Ten years into practice, that pairing describes someone who has been at the top of the academic queue and who also puts effort into explaining cancer outside the consulting room.