[1] In 2011 he was the recipient of a Padma Shri Award for medicine.
[2][3][4] He is the first former National President and former Vice-President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA)[5] in Kerala State to receive this national award.
[6] He led the protest against proposed National Medical Commission Bill for IMA.
[7][8] In the private sector he is currently the Managing Director of Ananthapuri Hospitals & Research Institute in Trivandrum.
[9] This Indian medicine-related biographical article is a stub.