• Senior Consultant and Managing Director of Madras ENT Research Foundation.
• Honorary Distinguished Professor, The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical
University.
• Padma Shri awardee 2006, Dr. B. C. Roy award 2008.
• Pioneering Cochlear Implant Surgeon in India and South Asia with personal
series of over 4,000 Cochlear Implants.
• First ENT Surgeon to do Auditory Brain Stem Implants in South & South East
Asia and has a personal series of nearly 100 Auditory Brain Stem Implants, one of
the largest in the world.
• Has over 200 publications in major national &international journals and has
attended & presented papers in almost 450 National and International conferences
and has been an invited lecturer in several of them. He has conducted & attended
over 325 workshops on Temporal Bone Surgery, Skull Base Surgery, Live Laser
surgery and Audiology for Surgeons etc.
• Indo – Australian award 2006.
• National Award of Excellence Sri Lanka 2007.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Cause) The Tamil Nadu, Dr. M.G. R. Medical
University.
• Visiting Professor, EDGE HILL University, U.K.
• Honorary Professor, Department of ENT, SRM Medical College Hospitals &
Research Center, Chennai.
• Former Member executive council, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India.
• Regional secretary for Asia of International Federation of Otolaryngological
Societies.
• Past President, Asia-Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and related
sciences.
• Visiting Professor of Otology, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 2015.