Professional Experience
I have been working with patients since my second year in medical school. After completing my coursework, I worked full-time as a Medical Doctor from January 2023 until July 2024. I graduated from AIIMS, Rishikesh, in July 2024.
I have gained research experience through part-time projects in the Autonomic Function Lab and the Bacteriology Lab at AIIMS, Rishikesh. My clinical research experience spans across internal medicine, psychiatry, ophthalmology, and medical education. I also have 5 months of full-time laboratory research experience working with Dr. Arvind Kumar, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, Prof. Upinder Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, and at the National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health (NIRRCH), Mumbai.
Since September 2025, I have been working as a full-time Research Fellow in Neuromodulation with Prof. (Dr.) Paresh Doshi. Here, my primary focus is DBS research, but I also fulfil some clinical responsibilities.
Clinical Experience
September 2024 onwards
January 2023 - July 2024
March 2022 - December 2022
April 2021 - Janaury 2022
August 2019-February 2021
Research Fellow in Neuromodulation at JHRC,
- Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgical Planning - I am actively involved in surgical planning, having worked on 50+ DBS surgical targets for neurological and psychiatric disorders - Parkinson's Disease, Dystonia, Tourette's Syndrome, Pain, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. I am well-versed with proprietary planning softwares - Medtronic Stealth S7, S8, and BRAINLab
- DBS Programming - I have been actively involved in 200+ conventional mono-polar review and connectomic DBS programming sessions. I am well-versed with (non)directional electrodes and MICC pacemakers
- Psychometric Assessments - I assess patients with depression, OCD, and mild cognitive impairment undergoing deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS)​
MS5/Medical Intern at AIIMS, Rishikesh,
Completed clinical clerkships in 13 medical and surgical specialties. Provided comprehensive outpatient care in Internal Medicine Screening Clinics, Otorhinolaryngology, Primary Health Centres and Family Clinics, and Psychiatry, focusing on history-taking, general and systemic examination, and diagnostic workup. Conducted Ophthalmic out-patient examinations including visual acuity evaluation and tonometry. Delivered in-patient care, including supervised medical procedures (Pleural Tap, Ascitic Tap, Lumbar Puncture, Central Venous Catheterisation, and Endotracheal Intubation), and intensive care in Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, General Surgery, Pulmonary Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, and Pediatrics. Assisted medico-legal autopsy in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
MS4, Completed Final Clinical Postings (Rotations) in General Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology, Neurology, General Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Cardio-Thoracic Vascular Surgery (CTVS), Neurosurgery, Dentistry, Anesthesiology, Radiodiagnosis, Radiotherapy, Obstetrics and Genecology and Pediatrics.
MS3, Completed Clinical Postings (Rotations) in Community and Family Medicine, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) Orthopedics, and Psychiatry.
MS2, Completed Clinical Postings (Rotations) in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Genecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Community and family Medicine.
Laboratory Experience
May 2024
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February-March 2023
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March 2022
January 2021 - March 2022
October 2018 - January 2020
IFMSA SCORE Research Exchange Student,
Prof. Miguel Castelo-Branco's Lab,
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
I was selected to work on Functional and molecular imaging of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders through the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA)'s Standing Committee of Research Exchanges (SCORE) Research Exchange with ANEM-Portugal. I wasn't able to travel for the exchange.
IFMSA SCORE Research Exchange Student,
Prof. (Associate) Mariarosaria Santillo's Lab,
Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery at the Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
I was selected to work on Multiple sclerosis pathogenic antibodies targeting myelin-forming cells through the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA)'s Standing Committee of Research Exchanges (SCORE) Research Exchange with SISM-Italy. I wasn't able to travel for the exchange.
Dr. Mohit Bhatia's Bacteriology Lab
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, India
During my third and fourth professional of medical school, I worked with Dr. Mohit Bhatia at our institute's diagnostic bacteriology lab. I studied the microbial profile of oxygen humidifiers across the hospital and found that the microbial profile of patients, humidifiers, and source water were different concluding that humidifiers are not a source of hospital-acquired infections. In the course of the project, I prepared gram stain slides, KOH mounts, and DSA cultures, and set up automated bacterial cultures. Later, I studied the clinical, microbiological, and radiological profile of post-COVID pulmonary fungal infections, and generated preliminary epidemiological data from the Himalayas (Uttarakhand, India).
Lt. Col. Prof. (Dr.) Latika Mohan's Autonomic Function Lab
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, India
In my first year at medical school, I started research when I woke up to a 3.5-inch cockroach flying in my room at 5 AM. I was curious about my response to the creature, particularly because I was scared and shouting, but not sweating or having palpitations. I was curious to explore if this was an individual variation or physiological and psychological fear responses independent of each other. In search of an answer, I designed and standardized an experiment to compare psychological and electrophysiological fear responses of afraid and indifferent individuals to audio-visual exposures. I studied the electrophysiological response using Galvanic Skin Response/Skin Conductance Level, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), and Blood Pressure. Later in the same lab, I also studied the cardiac autonomic profile of patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
August - October 2023
May - August 2023
IASc-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellow,
Prof. Upinder Bhalla's Computational Neuroscience Lab
National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Banglore, India
I joined Prof. Upinder S. Bhalla's Lab at NCBS, Banglore as a Summer Research Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science (IASc), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), and the National Academy of Science in India (NASI) 2023. As an SRF, I developed the HillTau model of Acetylcholine receptor signaling in Neurons and optimized the model against 24 FindSim (Framework for Integrating Neuronal Data and Signaling Models) dose-response experiments manually and in Hierarchical Optimization of Systems Simulations (HOSS). I also gained basic experience in patch-clamp electrophysiology and in-vivo behavior studies. I developed working at NCBS are programming, and computational modelling.
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Summer Research Trainee,
Dr. Arvind Kumar Group,
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
Interning at the Neuro-epigenetics of Psychiatric Disorders Lab of Dr. Arvind Kumar, I studied the effects of imipramine (conventional slow-acting) and ketamine (fast-acting) antidepressants on selected immediate early genes, neurotrophic factors, and synaptic plasticity markers in chronic stress-induced depression by q-rt-PCR. I learned about animal models, especially mouse models of depression, anxiety, stroke, and maternal depression, and observed animal sacrifice and brain dissection. I also learned about Behavioral tests for depressive & and anxious phenotypes. The skills I gained working at CCMB, Hyderabad, are Protein and RNA extraction from the harvested brain, western blotting, northern blotting, cDNA synthesis, and qPCR.
Department of Health Research (DHR) Trainee in
Human Disease Models: Approaches, Applications and Advances,
Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute for Research in Reproductive and Child Health (ICMR-NIRRCH), Mumbai, India
I joined ICMR-NIRRCH for a 4-week training in Human Disease Models for clinicians sponsored by the Department of Health Research, Government of India. At NIRRCH, I acquired practical skills 2D (primary and cell lines) and 3D (spheroids and organs-on-chip models) cell culture techniques - transfection by lipofectamine, passaging by trypsinization, and microfluidics; induced Pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) disease models (schizophrenic neuron), 3D bioprinting, and animal models and in-vivo imaging through tutorials and hands-on experiments. I also gained knowledge of Primer design tools, Genome sequencing and analysis tools, and Bioinformatics tools. I spent my lab day practicing maintenance and sub-culturing of iPSCs, and passaging cell lines.
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Research Fellow in Neuromodulation,
Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
At JHRC, I am working on projects across both invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation. My work spans across neuroimaging (diffusion tensor imaging, probabilistic tractography in 3D Sliceer, FSL, and Lead-DBS) and electrophysiology (Microelectrode Recordings and Local Field Potentials, in Python, MATLAB) with an objective of optimizing surgical targeting and programming of Deep Brain Stimulation for neurological and psychiatric disorders. I also work on clinical trials of deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) and assess patients with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and Migraine using standard psychometric and neuropsychological tests.
September 2025 onwards
Experience with Journals
March 2025 onwards
August 2020 - September 2022
July 2021 till date
Editorial Board - Neurology/Neurosurgery/Psychiatry
Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
I serve as an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of the Indian Journal of Medical Sciences, where I primarily review articles in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry with a special focus on neuromodulation.
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Chief Editor,
Journal of Asian Medical Students' Association (2226-3403)
As the Chief Editor of JAMSA, Oshin along with his Editorial Board got the journal enlisted in ICMJE, and indexed in ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) Indexing, Gale Cengage, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), and Genamics Journal Seek. In his tenure as CEJAMSA, JAMSA also became a member of CrossRef, and started allocating a DOI to all its manuscript while continuing to be free to a platform got students to publish open-access scholarly articles without paying any publication fee. Furthermore, during this tenure JAMSA published its first print editions, experienced a 400% increase in submissions while maintaining an acceptance rate of 41% and published a total of 8 issues of the journal over 2 volumes.
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Reviewer,
Annals and Bulletin Journals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng) (0035-8843)
As a Reviewer of the Annals and Bulletin Journals of RCSEng, Oshin has had the opportunity to critically analyze submissions made to the journal for potential publication and make suggestions ot the journal to accept/revise/reject a sbmission before it is appropriate to be published.
March - August 2024
April - June 2024
May 2023
June 2020 – February 2023
October 2021 – September 2022
January – December 2019
Head of Conference, 1st Annual Research Congress for Undergraduate Students (ARCUS) 2024.
Editor-in-Chief, CLIMaTE - Climate Leaders in Making Transforming the Environment, Volume-1, Issue-1.
Student Co-ordinator, Y20 International Holistic Health Conclave.
Editor, An Ode to Medicine: Newsletter of Dept. of Medicine.
President, Researchers of AIIMS, Rishikesh (ROAR): UG Research Club.
Editor, Panacea (Vol-1): A Universal Remedy: Annual Students’ Magazine.
May 2023 - July 2024
June 2022
June 2022
December 2020 - August 2022
April 2021 - June 2022
