Aneel received his degree in Medicine from the University of Birmingham in 2004. He was awarded a PhD following completion of a Cancer Research UK Fellowship at Imperial College London, supervised by Professor Paris Tekkis, Professor Gina Brown, and Professor Ara Darzi. His doctoral research focused on high risk rectal cancer.
Since 2014 Aneel has been a Clinical Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery at the University of Birmingham, where he co-founded the COVIDSurg Collaborative. This is an international collaborative research network, which is now supported as the NIHR Global Health Unit on Global Surgery by a £7 million grant from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).
Aneel has been the Chief Investigator for multiple global studies, including the COVIDSurg studies and the NIHR funded CHEETAH randomised trial. He is leading the development of novel pathways for the public communication of surgical research.
