Dr. Lalit Kumar

Dr. Lalit Kumar is a graduate in medicine from Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra. He did his higher studies (DM)
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 (AIIMS), 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.
He has been honored by the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of
India (FAMS) with fellowships. He is also a recipient of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) award and
Ranbaxy Science Foundation award. In 2008, the Government of India honored him with Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the
highest award by the Indian government in the medical category. This was followed by another government honor,
the Padma Shri when he was included in the Republic Day honors in 2014.
He is a member of the Indo British Health Initiative (IBHI), 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 (IfWH) of the University College of London (UCL) in the area of gynecological
oncology. He is also a member of the Expert Committee to examine the Serious Adverse Events (SAE) of deaths
occurring during clinical trials.