He worked as a Regional Coordinator at WHO-India in a Disease Eradication Program from 2000-2003 and joined as faculty and Chief Medical Superintendent at a 1350 bed university teaching super specialty hospital - Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center at Kochi and is now Medical Director at Amrita’s, Delhi-NCR project, the largest Private University teaching hospital in the country.
He has done his fellowship in Patient & Healthcare worker Safety from University of Virginia and fellowship on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from University of Adelaide. He is an Improvement Advisor at Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), US. He is a faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata (HEMP) and at IIM Bangalore.
Dr Sanjeev is also an Ambassador from India to Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and has been adjudged as “Heros of Infection Control” by Association of Professionals of Infection Control (APIC), US. He is the Vice Chairman of Research Committee at NABH and Chairman of Technical Committee & Scientific Committee at AHPI (Association of Healthcare Providers of India) and core member for various other prestigious associations.
He has written a book "Hospital Infection Control Guidelines: Principles & Practices" and has several international and national publications. He has been awarded "Best Practices" in Infection Control" by GOI and Quality Council of India (QCI) in 2010, "QIMPRO Quality award" for Lean Six Sigma implementation in Healthcare in 2012, “Outstanding Healthcare Professional” by ITP Publishing, Dubai in 2014 and FICCI “Patient safety” award in 2015 and British Medical Journal (BMJ) award in South Asia for “Infectious Disease Initiative of the year” in 2016. He was recently awarded as “Most impactful 100 healthcare leaders (global)” by CMA Asia in 2017. He was awarded “Quality Champion” award by Confederation of Accreditation Healthcare Organization (CAHO) in 2018 and “Best Quality Initiative project” by DL Shah Quality Council of India and Ramakrishna Bajaj award in 2019.
Awarded AHA (Association of Hospital Administrators) Ratna award in 2022.