Dr Vivek Nair is a Gold Medalist from Maulana Azad Medical College, one of India’s premier medical institutions.

A high achiever since his school days, Dr Nair topped the AFMC All India Medical Entrance Examination in 1997. At the age of 17, he was featured on the cover of Junior Science Digest, a popular science magazine, for his outstanding higher secondary and pre-medical test results. Choosing to stay in Delhi he joined Maulana Azad Medical College and during MBBS was in the top 5% of his batch. Completing Internship from Lok Nayak Hospital, he then secured a top 1% rank in the Delhi State Post Graduate Medical Entrance Exam. Going against the trend for high rankers at the time, he chose Dermatology because of his keen interest in the subject.

The next six years were spent in the Dermatology Dept. of Lok Nayak Hospital – one of India’s leading Dermatology training institutes; the first three as a post graduate student and the next three as a Senior Resident, in which capacity he gained valuable experience in medical dermatology, inpatient management and lasers. Dr Nair excelled during his time there, topping the MD Dermatology Exam (Delhi Univ) in 2007, for which he was awarded the Dr V.N. Sehgal Gold Medal for Excellence in Dermatology, Venereology & Leprology. That same year his work on the surgical treatment of post-acne scarring won him the ‘Best Young Dermatologist of the Year’ award at the annual conference of the  Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists & Leprologists, Delhi Chapter.