Lalit Kumar
Lalit Kumar is an Indian oncologist, known to have contributed to the development of low cost medical facilities in Delhi. The Government of India honoured him, in 2014, with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of medicine.
Early life and education
Kumar is a graduate in medicine from Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra. He completed his higher studies at the Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai and followed it up with a post doctoral fellowship at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of the Hammersmith Hospital, London. Kumar, a Fulbright scholar, is the Professor and Head of the Medical Oncology department at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi where he focuses on Multiple Myeloma and Gynaecological malignancies. During his tenure at the AIIMS, Kumar is known to have developed cost effective treatment protocols for sustained bone marrow and stem cell transplantations.Career
Kumar is a member of the Indo British Health Initiative, a foundation promoting scientific collaboration on healthcare between the UK and India. He represents AIIMS in the inter institutional collaborative initiative with Institute of Women's Health of the University College of London in the area of gynecological oncology. He is also a member of the Expert Committee to examine the Serious Adverse Events of deaths occurring during clinical trials.Kumar's researches have been documented. Pubfacts, a knowledge repository with PubMed scientific data, has listed over 50 articles by Dr. Lalit Kumar. He also attends international conferences on a regular basis.