Dr. Ashwani completed his medical and surgical degrees with the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune, India in 1983. He also received an M.S. degree, with emphasis on surgical oncology, from LaLa Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College in Meerut, India in 1988. He completed his internship at Balrampur Hospital in Lucknow, India in 1983, and his residency in general surgery, with emphasis on surgical oncology, at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India in 1989. He also served residency in internal medicine at Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois through 1994. Dr. Ashwani received fellowships in hematology, bone marrow transplantation, medical oncology and therapeutics research from the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California in 1997.