He graduated from Gandhi University with the degrees of MBBS, MD along with MA (Bhopal University) and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Badgaiyan is a distinguished member of various renowned societies including Society of Nuclear Medicine, American Psychiatric Association, Society for Neuroscience and many more. He has authored more than 40 peer reviewed journal articles and has the credit of more than 30 presentations. Dr. Badgaiyan has been honored with a number of prestigious awards as fellowships and for being significant contributor. He has been the Judge for the Postdoctoral Research Symposium (April 2012) at SUNY Buffalo, and is involved in various other service activities.