Dr Amita Aggarwal received her graduate medical education and postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She obtained DM (Clinical Immunology) from this department and later joined on the faculty in 1996 rose to be the Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute, Lucknow. Currently she is the executive director at AIIMS Bibinagar. She was awarded the APLAR fellowship for training in Rheumatology at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. Later she spent 6 weeks at Centers for disease control, Atlanta learning Lab immunology. She availed DBT sponsored overseas research associateship at Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Oklahoma Health Science center, USA.

She is a clinician scientist, with major interest in Juvenile arthritis and SLE. Her major work is on innate immune pathways in Juvenile arthritis, and she has setup a multi-institutional lupus cohort in India. She has published nearly 400 papers and has written 2 books and more than 50 book chapters. In addition, she has taught a generation of physicians working in the field of rheumatology. She has been the principal investigator of more than 35 research projects. She serves on multiple international working groups on JIA and SLE.

In recognition of her work, she has been elected fellow of the Indian national academy of Science (INSA), Indian academy of Science, National academy of Science (NASI) as well as National academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS). She has received multiple awards from ICMR, DBT, IRA, API and pediatric rheumatology society. She has also served as the President of Indian Rheumatology Association as well as editor of Indian Journal of Rheumatology. She is on the advisory board of Lancet Rheumatology and Lancet Global health (South Asia)