He is a Professor of Maxillofacial surgery at the Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences,and a consultant Maxillofacial surgeon at the Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain Hospital. He is also the Project Director, the Smile Train Project, at the Jain hospital and is the Director for the Fellowship Program in Cleft lip and Palate at the same hospital. The fellowship programs are run under the auspices of the Rajiv Gandhi University of health sciences and the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. His subspeciality area of interest is Cleft lip and Palate deformities