Dr. Shishir Seth is a Consultant in Hemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at the Apollo Cancer Institute, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi. His medical qualifications include an MD and a DM in Clinical Hematology (Mumbai). In addition, he has completed a Fellowship in Leukemia and Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) at the Division of Hematology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Seth's areas of specialisation include blood and marrow transplant (BMT), blood cancers (leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma), anemia, thalassemia, bleeding and clotting disorders. He has successfully performed over 200 hematopoietic stem cell transplants, out of which 40 percent were allogeneic including haplo-identical and antigen mismatch transplants.

Over the years, Dr. Shishir Seth has been associated at various levels as Resident and Consultant with several prestigious hospitals in Mumbai and Delhi. He initially was Junior Resident at Seth GS Medical/KEM Hospital, Mumbai, after which he served as Senior Assistant Medical Officer (AMO) at Bombay Hospital, Mumbai. He then was posted as Clinical Assistant (Hematology) at the PD Hinduja National Hospital in Mumbai. His next two positions were in New Delhi, first as Senior Resident at the GTB Hospital and subsequently as Consultant at the Moolchand Hospital. He returned to the Seth GS Medical College/KEM Hospital in Mumbai as Senior Resident while he pursued his DM and proceeded to Canada for the above-mentioned fellowship at Vancouver General Hospital. His next professional stint was as Consultant (Hemato-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant) at the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, New Delhi, before he took up his present attachment.

Besides his regular professional commitments, Dr. Seth has devoted his time to research as well. Several of his research papers and articles have been either published in peer-reviewed journals or presented at medical conferences. He is a member of various associations and bodies related to his field.