Dr Sharad P. Paul initially embarked on surgical training in general/plastic surgery before establishing an integrated skin cancer practice. He has worked as a surgical consultant in public/teaching hospitals and also in primary care. Since 1996, his Skin Surgery Clinic has performed over 45,000 skin cancer operations, making the center known for one of the largest series of skin cancer patients worldwide. He is a Senior Lecturer (skin cancer) at the School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia and an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery at the University of Auckland. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Given these academic and teaching attachments, he has a long list of conference keynote presentation and publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is a Fellow of the Skin Cancer College of Australasia and has also been conferred the Distinguished Fellowship of the Royal NZ College of General Practitioners.

In 2015, he was awarded the Ko Awatea International Excellence Award for Leading (Health) Improvement on a Global Scale with the citation noting "Dr Sharad Paul role in improving skin cancer management, education and patient-centred care internationally, across several countries." In 2016, Dr Sharad P. Paul co-authored Clinical Cases in Skin Cancer Surgery and Treatment (Springer). He is the author of several nonfiction books for popular audiences in the field of skin and medicine.