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- The October revolution, The Hindu (Interview, Oct 2016)
- Doc’s story on celluloid, The Hindu (Interview, April 2016)
- Palliative care needs urgent attention, The Times of India (Invited article, Feb 2016)
- India Must conduct a thorough re-examination of how it approaches early breast cancer detection, First Post (Interview, Feb 2016)
- A Decade of Bhavishya – Doc’s story on celluloid, The Hindu (Interview, April 2016)
- Subversion of Medicine,Mumbai Mirror (Invited article, July 2015)
- From small town to big city, The Times of India (Invited column, July 2015)
- Myths & Facts about breast cancer, The Times of India (Invited article, Oct 2015)
- Keeping abreast with Cancer, Mumbai Mirror (Interview, Oct 2015)
- Is Breast Cancer risk just being hyped to do unnecessary testing, Prevention Magazine (Invited article, Oct 2015)
- Road less travelled, The Hindu (Interview, Feb 2015)
- Winning the Padma award, Wow Hyderabad (Interview Feb 2015)
- “Doctor on a pan India mission”,Red Magazine (Interview, 2015)
- “We know what it feels like” Men’s Health & Prevention magazine (Interview & feature, Oct 2014)
- A Doctor’s view on Doctor’s day, The Times of India< (Invited article, July 2014)
- Mother’s day, The Hindu (Interview, May 2014)
- Ï was a back bencher in school”, Hans India (Interview, 2014)
- The Breast investigator, Women’s Health (Interview, Prevention magazine, 2013)
- Article in Eenadu (Sukheebhava), Dec 2007: India’s First free standing pupose built Centre for Breast health
- Article in Eenadu (Sukheebhava), on 30th Oct 2007: An article on Breast Cancer awareness (Breast cancer Screening & Oncoplastic Breast Surgery-1)
- Article in Eenadu (Sukheebhava), Oct 2007: Breast cancer Screening & Oncoplastic Breast Surgery-2
- Article in Deccan Chronicle on 16th Oct 2007: An article on Breast Cancer awareness.
- Article in Andhra Jyothi on 8th Oct 2007: An article on Breast Cancer awareness by Dr. UshaLakshmi.
- Article in Eenadu (Sukheebhava), on 10th April 2007: An article on Breast Cancer awareness.
- In the year 2002, Pillarisetti’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. There on, he relocated to India in 2007 and established a dedicated purpose-built facility for breast health care at KIMS Hospitals in Hyderabad. The centre, KIMS-Ushalakshmi Center for Breast Diseases, bears his mother’s name (Ushalakshmi). He is presently the Founding Director & Consultant Surgeon at KIMS-USHALAKSHMI Centre for Breast Diseases, KIMS Hospitals.
- Pillarisetti established Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, with Amitabh Bachchan and P. V. Sindhu as its ambassadors, to spread awareness about the disease and, later, started publishing Pink Connexion, a quarterly newsletter. In 2007, the annual “Pink Ribbon Campaign” was launched to raise awareness of breast cancer during the month of October (international breast cancer awareness month).
- Between 2012 – 2016, he has overseen the implementation of south Asia’s largest population-based breast cancer screening programme in the southern Indian states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Women diagnosed with breast cancer were treated free of cost under the State Government’s Arogyasree scheme.
- In 2016, the Government of India invited him to be part of the Steering Committee, and a high-powered Technical Advisory Group (TAG) set up by the Union Ministry of Health, which has drafted guidelines to replicate the Clinical Breast Examination (CBE) based breast cancer screening programme across the nation.
- He was appointed as an International Surgical Adviser of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2012.
- He was one of the youngest surgeons chosen through election to serve as President of The Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) for the year 2020. ASI is South Asia’s largest and the world’s second-largest surgical organization that represents the surgical fraternity in India. As President of ASI, he launched five Skills Courses & the National Online Skills Enhancement Programme (NSEP) in 2020, which are aimed to enhance the knowledge base & improve the skill sets of surgical trainees.
- Being a Convenor of International Affairs for the Association of Surgeons of India (2017 – 2018), he implemented a working partnership between the Association of Surgeons of India and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Doing this facilitates the process of selecting surgical trainees from India to obtain advanced subspecialty surgical training at selected centres of excellence in the UK through the Royal College’s International Surgical Training Programme (ISTP).
- He was a member of the governing council of the Association of Surgeons of India from 2013 – 2015. He has taken responsibility as its overseas coordinator between 2009 and 2012.
- He served as the founder and Honorary Secretary (2011–13), Vice President (2013–14), and as President (2015 – 2017) of the Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI), the youngest in the organization’s history. He also started the ‘ABSI-UK Fellowship Programme,’ which allows surgical trainees from India selected on merit to obtain ‘hands-on’ one-year subspecialty training in breast centres of excellence in the UK
- He served as a member of the board of advocates of the American Society of Breast Surgeons in 2009. Being the first surgeon from outside USA to sit on the board.
- He has been associated with the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology as a member, as its overseas coordinator (2005–08), as the editorial secretary (2009–10), as a member of the executive committee (2011–12), and as the joint editor of its official journal, Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology (IJSO) (2010–14).
- He has been the author of many articles on breast healthcare and has contributed nine chapters in three textbooks, including the textbook series, Recent Advances in Surgery and Bailey & Love Revision Guide.
