Dr. Aggarwal is currently working as Director, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry. Before joining JIPMER in January 2019, he worked as a faculty member in the Department of Gastroenterology at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow, India for over 28 years.
Rakesh Aggarwal is a gastroenterologist-hepatologist, with interest in related areas, such as epidemiology, health economics, medical research, journal editing and medical education. He worked with the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology, a MedLine-indexed journal, for more than 20 years in various capacities, including as the Editor. He was an Associate Editor of ‘Trials’ and ‘Hepatology, Medicine and Policy’, both BioMedCentral journals. He is currently an Editor of Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
He is a member of the WAME Ethics and Policy Committee and has previously been a Board Member of WAME. He has been a member of the Indian Association of Medical Journal Editors since its inception.