Prof Ajay Puri is the chief of Orthopaedic Oncology and the Professor and Head of the Surgical Oncology Department at the Tata Memorial Centre & Homi Bhabha National Institute.

Prof Ajay has extensive national and international teaching experience and has held faculty and examiner positions at Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur, University of Malaya, University of Seychelles and Dr. MGR Medical University among others. He has also served as a Mentor for Indian Orthopedic Association and as an Assessor for the Medical Council of India.

He has been affiliated with 24 national and international professional organisations and serves as the Chairman of Indian Orthopedic Association (Oncology) andalso has been on the International Editorial Board of Bone & Joint – 360, Sarcoma and Frontiers in Orthopedic Surgery. He has also been a Member of the Govt. of India/Ministry of Health task force for guidelines on management of musculoskeletal sarcomas.

His extraordinary contribution has been globally acknowledged and he has been a recipient of 20 awards and international fellowships which include the prestigious Golden Peacock Innovation award (2010) and Best Published Paper Award (2010) by Indian Orthopedic Association in Clinical Research Category.

He sits on the journal review board of nineteen national and international journals and he himself has published over 75 indexed papers and has been a principal investigator of 7 high impact research projects. He is credited with authoring and editing over a dozen books and chapters. 

Key Professional positions held:

• Chairman - Indian Orthopaedic Association (Oncology)
• President – Indian Musculoskeletal Tumor Society
• President Elect - Asia Pacific Musculoskeletal Tumor Society

Some of his contributions to books:

• Editor - “Current Concepts in Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors” : Publisher: Paras Medical Books (2007).
• Tumors of the Foot and Ankle in Foot and Ankle Surgery, Ed: Selene G Parekh : Jaypee Publishers , 1st edition, 2012.
• Section Editor: Bone Tumors in Textbook of Orthopedics & Trauma, 2^nd edition. Ed: G S Kulkarni published by Jaypee brothers 2008.
• Clinical Biomechanics of the Lumbar Spine; a chapter in Textbook of Orthopedics & Trauma. Ed: G S Kulkarni published by Jaypee brothers 1999.

He completed his M.S. (Ortho) from the University of Bombay and his Dip. Tissue Banking from National University of Singapore.