• BMJ Award for the Best Research Project in South Asia for the year 2015-16– One of the Top 3 Finalists: October 2016, New Delhi
  • Best Paper – Asia Spine  – September 2016, Seoul for ‘Stand-alone lateral recess decompression without discectomy in patients presenting with neurogenic claudication and MRI evidence of large disc protrusions: a prospective study’
  • Best Paper – National NeuroSpine Conference – September 2016, Kolkatta for ‘Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: Is it always unstable? A New Scoring System to Aid Decision Making and Apply Value Based Spine Care’
  • Best Paper – VTI Gold Medal at ASSICON 2015, Goa for ‘Cervical Foot-print Anthropometry in Indian Population: Implications on design of Artificial Disc Replacement Devices.’
  • Best Paper – MISSICON 2015, Mumbai for ‘MIS TLIF – Is Less More?’
  • Best Paper Award – Silver Medal: ‘MIS-TLIF vs Open TLIF: Is Less More?’ KOACON 2014, Bangalore.
  • Best Poster Award – Silver Medal, ICS Kodaikanal, CSF leaks and Failed back: Is Minimally invasive Spine Surgery more forgiving than Open Spine Surgery? ICS, Kodaikanal, 16th to 18th August 2013
  • Bombay Hospital Clinical Research Award – 2013 for “Are dural tears in Minimal Access Spine Surgery more forgiving?”
  • Awarded ‘Outstanding Young Achiever Award – National Level‘ by JCI (Junior Chambers International), India at their National Convention in Thrissur, Kerala on 28th December 2013.
  • ‘Gold medal – Best Paper Award’ at International Spinal Injury and Spinal Conference, New Delhi, October 2012 for CT Based Evaluation of Odontoid Morphology in Indian Population: Implications on Internal Fixation of Type II Odontoid Fractures
  • Bombay Hospital Clinical Research Award – 2012 for “Preliminary results of Cervical Disc Replacement”
  • Bombay Hospital Clinical Research Award – 2011 for “MicroEndoscopic Decompression for Lumbar Canal Stenosis”
  • ‘Korean SICOT Award’ to attend the SICOT Annual Congress at Hong Kong in August 2008
  • Awarded the esteemed ‘Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Scholarship‘ to attend 40th Annual Scoliosis Research Society Meeting at Miami, Florida, USA in October 2005.
  • Awarded the ‘Advanced AO Fellowship in Spinal Surgery’ by AO – Spine, North America for the year 2005-06
  • Awarded the ‘Gold medal – Depuy – Acromed Best Paper Publication Award’ by the Association of Spine Surgeons of India (ASSI) for the year 2005 during the Annual Conference at Bangalore, India
  • Awarded the esteemed ‘Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) Scholarship’ to attend 39th Annual Scoliosis Research Society Meeting at Buenos Aires, Argentina in Sept, 2004.