Sanjay Oak

Sanjay Oak is an Indian surgeon who specialized in paediatric surgery and laparoscopy and who became best known as a senior administrator of public medical education and hospitals in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He served as dean of Seth G. S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, and is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. He also served as Director of Medical Education and Major Hospitals for the medical colleges and hospitals run by the Municipal Corporation of Mumbai. From October 2012 he was Vice Chancellor of the D Y Patil Vidyapeeth university in Navi Mumbai, and he spent four years as chief executive of the Prince Aly Khan Hospital in Mumbai and the Aga Khan Health Services in India. He writes in Marathi and contributes a weekly column, and he was appointed chairman of the Maharashtra state task force for COVID-19. He later became Director of Professional Services and Project Management for several hospital groups.