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MD (AIIMS Radiotherapy), DNB, Senior Consultant & Associate Director Radiation Oncology. Max Institute of Cancer Care, Vaishali, and Patparganj.

MD (Radiotherapy), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (AIIMS).

Diplomate of National Board (DNB) Radiotherapy. National Board of Examinations, India.

MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery). Seth G.S. Medical College, K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay, India.

OTHER SPECIALISED TRAINING:

• Biological Basis of Personalised Radiation Oncology(22-24 May 2015): ESTRO School
• Course held at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
• NABH- Assessors Training Program (October 2013): This certification makes one impaneled with the National Accreditation Board of Hospitals (NABH) http://www.nabh.co/ as an assessor wherein one shall be required to occasionally conduct NABH standards assessments of the hospitals applying for their accreditation. NABH is equivalent to JCI and other International standards including National Committee for Quality Assurance in the United States, HAS Australian Council, and the Japanese Council. NABH standards have been accredited by ISQUA which is the apex body that works towards "accrediting the accreditations"
• IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE (ESTRO IGRT course) Lausanne, Switzerland (18th to 22nd November 2012): Course held at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois at LausanneTeaching was related to IGRT and SBRT techniques.
• Montefiore Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1st July 2011 to 30 July 2011):
• Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) in Liver, Lungs,Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT) and Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for CNS lesions.
• Use of 4DCT.
• University Clinic for Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology, Paracelsus University, Salzburg, Austria (1st May 2009 to 15th June 2009):Image-Guided Radiotherapy.
• Intra-operative electron radiotherapy.
• Stereotactic radiotherapy.
• Accelerated radiotherapy for Non-small cell lung cancer using the target-split technique.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS PRESENTED:

• Internal Margins (IM) for Vaginal Vault in Postoperative Gynecological Malignancies − a Study of Eight Patients Using Daily CBCTs. The European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, Stockholm, 23-27 September 2011
• PET Based Target Delineation for Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy Planning in a case of Carcinoma Esophagus. Molecular Imaging in Radiation Oncology, ESTRO Conference, Brussels, Belgium, March 2010
• Management of retinoblastoma in children with discussion on radiotherapy under general anesthesia: an AIIMS experience. AROI conference, Mumbai, November 2008
• Management of Primitive Neuroectodermal tumors with Discussion on radiotherapy under general anesthesia. AROI conference, Mumbai, November 2008
• Management of carcinoma of the esophagus: an AIIMS Experience. 10th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer. Barcelona, Spain, June 2008
• Rhabdoid Variant of Lung cancer- Clinico-pathological Details of a case. 12th World Conference on Lung Cancer, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, Seoul, Korea, September 2007
• Study Of Outcome And Quality Of Life In Patients Undergoing Concurrent Chemo-radiotherapy. In Muscle Invasive Carcinoma Of The Urinary Bladder. ESMO Conference Lugano, Switzerland (ECLU 2007) July 2007
• Management of non-metastatic breast cancer: an AIIMS Experience. ESMO Conference Lugano, Switzerland (ECLU 2007) July 2007
• Concurrent Chemo-radiotherapy in Patients with Cervical Carcinoma, a single institution experience- Presented in 6th International Conference by Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute (RGCON 2007), April 2007 http://www.treat226237.org/rajiv-gandhi-cancer-institute-and-research-centre-rgcon-2007-conference.
• The outcome with Carboplatin and Etoposide combination chemotherapy in Medulloblastoma-Single institution retrospective analysis. Presented to 31st ESMO congress at Istanbul, Turkey, October 2006.

PUBLICATIONS:

• First Indian national conference on cervical cancer management - expert recommendations and identification of barriers to implementation. Gynecol Oncol Res Pract. 2018;5:5. Published 2018 Jul 26.
• Practical consensus recommendations regarding the role of postmastectomy radiation therapy. South Asian journal of cancer 7 (2), 2018
• A hybrid approach for head-neck cancer using on-line image guidance and off-line adaptive planning. Radiotherapy and Oncology
• Comparison of the gross tumor volume in end-expiration/end-inspiration (2 Phase) and summated all phase volume captured in four-dimensional computed tomography in carcinoma lung patients. Journal of cancer research and therapeutics 12 (1), 47. 2016
• Srivastava R, Saini G, Sharma PK, Chomal M, Agarwal A, Nangia S, Garg M. A technique to reduce low dose region for craniospinal irradiation (CSI) with RapidArc and its dosimetric comparison with 3D conformal technique (3DCRT). J Can Res Ther [Epub ahead of print] [cited 2015 Jun 23].
• Comparison of the gross tumor volume in end-expiration/end-inspiration (2 Phase) and summated all phase volume captured in four-dimensional computed tomography in carcinoma lung patients. J Can Res Ther [Epub ahead of print] [cited 2015 Jun 23].
• Gagan Saini, Anchal Aggarwal, Syed Ashraf Jafri, Vineeta Goel, Thomas Ranjitsingh, Ram Munjal, Anil Kumar Anand. A comparison between four immobilization systems for pelvic radiation therapy using CBCT and paired kilovoltage portals based image-guided radiotherapy.
• Gagan Saini, Vineeta Goel, Anil K Anand, and Kamlesh Kumar Gupta (2013). Image-guided radiation therapy for carcinoma of the gallbladder: implication on margin for set-up errors. Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice.
• Saini G, Aggarwal A, Srivastava R, Sharma PK, Garg M, Nangia S, Chomal M. Image-Guided Radiation Therapy for Muscle-Invasive Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder with Cone Beam CT Scan: Use of Individualized Internal Target Volumes for a Single Patient.
• Saini G, Aggarwal A, Garg M, et al. Response to “Development and Evaluation Of Multiple Isocentric Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Technique For Craniospinal Axis Radiotherapy Planning”( Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011; Feb23).
• Chomal M, Saini G, Sinha A, Aggarwal A, Jain A, Shrivastava R, Sharma PK, Nangia S. In Reply to Dr. Cashmore and colleagues: Lowering whole-body radiation doses in pediatric intensity-modulated radiotherapy through the use of unflattened photon beams: Cashmore J et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2011;80:1220-1227). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Mar 15;82(4):1324-5.
• Saini G, Aggarwal A, Chomal M, Srivastava R, Sharma PK, Nangia S, Garg M. Cranio-spinal irradiation with volumetric modulated arc therapy: a multi-institutional treatment experience. Radiother Oncol. 2012 Feb;102(2):322.
• Revisiting the Role of Computerized Tomographic Scan and Cystoscopy for Detecting Bladder Invasion in the Revised FIGO Staging System for Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix. Int J Gynecol Cancer 2010;20: 368Y372
• Saini G, Kumar M, Julka PK, Puri T, Sharma M, Rath GK. The rhabdoid variant of lung cancer: Clinicopathological details of a case and a review of the literature. J Can Res Ther 2009.