He is the chairman of Institute of Minimal Invasive Surgical Sciences & Research Centre, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai and the president of IFSO- Asia Pacific chapter.
[7] Lakdawala underwent training in Bariatric Surgery with Raul Rosenthal, Cleveland Clinic, United States, 2006.
He also successfully operated on a 30-year-old woman with unexplained body aches, to find a live worm inside her bile duct.
[10][11][12] He has performed bariatric surgery on the heaviest man in Asia who weighed all of 285 kg (627 pounds) in Tianjen, China.
[14] He was awarded 'Humanitarian of the year' by the All India Human Rights Association in 2007[20] and a Silver Medal at Shirin Mehtaji Oration for ‘Obstructive Jaundice’ in 1996.