He worked as a Regional Coordinator at WHO-India in a Disease Eradication Program from 2000-2003.He 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 Lead International surveyor at International Society for Quality (ISQua). He was member of Technical Committee at National Accreditation Board for Hospitals, India (NABH) and was responsible in drafting accreditation standards for 3rd and 4th edition. He is the Vice Chairman of Research Committee at NABH. He is Chairman of Technical Committee & Scientific Committee at AHPI (Association of Healthcare Providers of India), member of Accreditation Committee at Health Sector Council of India (Government of India) and Quality Accreditation of India (QAI). He is member of Drug Safety Council (GOI) and member of National Advisory Body on Occupational Exposures. He is also member of Healthcare Committee at Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce of India (FICCI) and Secy of AHPI- Delhi-NCR. He is President of Haryana Chapter of AHPI. He is an external consultant to WHO on regulatory, licensing policy issues and Quality Interventions in India. He is a Technical Advisor to several State govt healthcare projects (E learning, reduction of IMR, Antibiotic Stewardship and Infection Control), Technical Expert for University of Antwerp’s Point Prevalence Surveillance and Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s (US) on Neonatal Collaborative program. He is Technical Advisor on Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship for the State of Kerala, India.

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. He has been awarded “Most Inspiring Healthcare Leader of 2021”by Economic Times on 4th Edition of Doctors Day.

Awarded AHA (Association of Hospital Administrators) Ratna award in 2022

He is running 14 International and National Clinical Research and Epidemiology Research. He has a research grant of 49 CR.

He has a 105 international and national publication with H index of 20. He is at the editorial committee for Asian Society of Quality Journal, Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, International Journal for Research & Hospital Management and NABH Journal for Quality & Patient Safety. He is a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma