Dr. Saurabh Pokhariyal is a graduate of Kanpur Medical College and did his Nephrology training from Sanjay Gandhi PGI Lucknow. He was then an Assistant Professor of Nephrology at Nizams Institute in Hyderabad before embarking on a 3-year Fellowship in Nephrology and Renal Transplant from the University of Toronto. Since then, he has set-up and headed nephrology units at major hospitals in the Delhi NCR region