Sunil Saini, MBBS, MS

Dr. Saini is a cancer surgeon based in Dehradun, in the foothills of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand State, North India. He graduated from Banaras Hindu University and subsequently trained at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He began his medical career in 1992, serving at the Himalayan Hospital mission, located in a forested, underserved rural area of the region. As the hospital was still under construction, he started cancer care in a tin shed on campus. The site has since grown into a large university campus named Swami Rama Himalayan University. This institute has become the largest cancer institution in the region because of his continuous, focused efforts. He has extensive experience treating thousands of cancer patients over the last 30 years from western Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, performing complex surgical procedures for common and rare cancers. Dr. Saini has a special focus and expertise in the surgical management of cancers of the breast, head and neck, esophagus, and upper aerodigestive tract. He actively treats a large number of younger women with breast cancer, accounting for about one-fourth of new patients with breast cancer at the cancer hospital. His research interests include clinical oncology, palliative and supportive oncology, cancer databases, and tissue banking. He has published more than 100 articles and completed many sponsored research projects. He has received numerous awards and recognition for serving cancer patients and raising cancer awareness in the region.