He won the Anderson Gold Medal in anatomy and the Dr. Bhaskar Menon Prize in Pathology during his medical career.
He earned a master's degree in urology from Christian Medical College, Vellore in 1969.
[1] He is one of the first Urologists of the country and the first to specialize in Urology from the state of Andhra Pradesh.
His team has successfully performed the Transplantation of Kidney in Osmania General Hospital in 1982 for the first time in Andhra Pradesh.
He chaired several scientific sessions in national conferences of Urological Society of India.
He held the positions of honorary secretary, vice-president, president-elect and president of the Urological Society of India from 1982 to 1989.