Dr S Bal is the Director of the division of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Surgical Oncology at Fortis, Vasant Kunj and Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon. Dr Bal, is a former student of AIIMS, New Delhi and was, till 2005, an Additional Professor of Surgery and Consultant Thoracic Surgery and Chief of the Lung Cancer and other thoracic malignancies Clinic at his place of graduation, the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

He is a previous individual of the universally prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at New York and a Senior Registrar at the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, London.

He has prepared in Thoracic surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi and in the UK at the South West Regional Thoracic Surgery Unit at Bristol and at the Brompton Chest Hospital, London. He has been a clinical research individual at University of Leicester, UK in Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema; which he has spearheaded in India.

Dr Bal is additionally one of the pioneers in analytic and helpful thoracoscopic strategies and today, the division gets referrals from all over North, East and North-East India. He is an individual from numerous surgical social orders in India, USA, UK and Japan and has various companion checked on logical productions and honors surprisingly including the Norman Tanner Best Paper Award (Royal Society of Medicine, UK), the Japanese Surgical Society Award in 1996 and 1997, the Varoon Mahajan Fellowship of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA, the Escorts Raj Nanda Pulmonary Fellowship to Glenfield Hospital, University of Leicester, UK and the Best Paper Award of the Indian Association of Surgical Oncology in 2002.