Medical College, Ahmedabad following his graduation in 1983[2] and served as head of the urology department from 2005[2] until his resignation in 2010.
[9] Desai was to be inaugurated in late 2010 but was arrested on 23 April 2010 and jailed on charges of corruption for conspiring to extract a 20 million rupee bribe from officials at Gian Sagar Medical College in the northern state of Punjab.
[12][13] Desai became syndicate and senate member of the Gujarat University in November 2010 with most of the time uncontested.
[7] In late 2014, he participated in a public rally with health minister J. P. Nadda of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
[18][19] While serving as president of the MCI, Desai was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 22 April 2010.
[11] However MCI continued to operate until it was fully abolished by the government on 25 September 2020 and replaced by the National Medical Commission.