Anil Aggrawal

Anil Aggrawal, M.D., (August 17 1956 – ) is a professor of forensic medicine at the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India. He is known chiefly as the Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, which is one of the first truly internet based journals in the subject of forensic medicine.

Research experience
Dr. Aggrawal joined Maulana Azad Medical College as a faculty member in 1985. Since then he has been actively engaged in research in the field of forensic medicine. He has nine books to his credit, besides a number of professional papers in scientific journals. Among his areas of interest are paraphilias, its psychopathology and laws governing them around the world, forensic aspects of  geriatic medicine, and medicolegal aspects of toxicology. His special area of interest is the neuropathology of brain and newer and innovative methods of cutting the brain, so pathological changes could be demonstrated to the students more easily and effectively. He has produced several CDs of brain dissection, portions of which are published in his journal too.

Education
Dr. Aggrawal passed his bachelor degree in medicine and surgery from the University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1977 and M.D. in the subject of forensic medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1982. He went to Edinburgh for higher training in 1989 and spent a year there. In 1996, he was awarded the prestigious WHO fellowship, under which he taught at Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Japan and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, US.