About Ullas Batra
Dr. Ullas Batra obtained his DM in Medical Oncology from the prestigious Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology. He has gained wide experience in the management of various malignancies like lung cancer, breast cancer, GI cancers, hematological malignancies, etc. He has also done preceptorship at various international institutes like MD Anderson Cancer Centre, USA, and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia.
He has participated as a principal investigator and co-investigator in various phase II and III clinical trials. He has numerous publications to his credit in reputed journals and Research Gate, an online repository of scientific articles, has listed 49 of them. He has actively participated in organizing various seminars, CMEs, and conferences throughout the country. He is also a thesis guide for DNB residents. At present, he is working as a Senior Consultant and Chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre.
What are Ullas Batra’s greatest milestones in his life journey?
Ullas Batra has achieved an International Innovation Grant from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has also received Oncocare Excellence from the Delhi Medical Association and competitive research grants.
He received many awards from 1998 to 2010. Some of them are academic excellence awards, research grants for poster discussion at the ECLU conference 2007 held at Lugano, Switzerland, Awarded a research grant for poster discussion at the IASCLC conference 2008 held in Geneva, Switzerland. Awarded a research grant for poster discussion at the ECLU Conference, Geneva, 2010. Apart from this, he has participated as a speaker at various national and international oncological conferences. He is also actively involved in clinical research in various forms.
What are the lessons from the challenges he has faced and how did he overcome them?
Cancer in India is taboo, especially in women. Lung cancer, additionally, is often misdiagnosed as tuberculosis and treated with anti-tubercular drugs. The challenge is to motivate these patients for biopsy and further cancer-directed treatment. to reach out more and more to these patients in rural India.
Mention some principles that you live by and would advise others to adopt:
He lived by the principle of honesty and diligence towards his patients. Cancer patients and their families are aggrieved, so empathy and affection are the keys.
