Rajesh Patel currently serves as a Volunteer Clinical Instructor at Indiana University School of Medicine since January 2013 and has been an Anesthesiologist at Deaconess Hospital since July 2000. Rajesh Patel obtained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where an Internal Medicine Residency Program was completed from 1990 to 1994, following an initial MD from the same institution from 1986 to 1990. Rajesh Patel's foundational education in medicine was completed at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans, Baroda, from 1972 to 1981.