Shailesh V. Shrikhande MS (Mumbai), MD (Heidelberg), FRCS (Hon, London), FASA (Hon, USA) Shailesh V. Shrikhande is a Professor of Surgical Oncology and Head of GI, HPB Surgical Service; Division of Cancer Surgery at the Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai, India. He is also the Deputy Director of Tata Memorial Hospital. He was ranked first in the Master of Surgery examinations of Mumbai University in 1997 and later received specialist training in Pancreatic Research and Pancreatic Surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland and  the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Kenneth Warren Fellowship of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) in 2005. He was awarded the title of Doctor of Medicine (magna cum laude) by the University of Heidelberg for his original clinical and basic research on chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in 2006. He has been invited to over 600 lectures and orations all over the world. Apart from having published over 300 clinical and basic science research papers in leading peer-reviewed  journals (including a series of 1200 Whipple Resections), Professor Shrikhande has also given 62 live operative masterclass demonstrations on pancreatic, gastric, gall bladder and colorectal cancer across India and abroad. In addition, he has contributed over 75 book chapters and is the Chief Editor of the books “Surgery of Pancreatic tumours” (2007) and “Pancreatic Cancer: Current Understanding” (2011), ‘Modern Gastrointestinal Oncology (2015) and Pancreas (2023). His h-index stands at 61. He is the Chairman of the Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) committee for developing guidelines for the management of Pancreatic and Gastric Cancer in India. He is the associate editor of Langenbecks Archives of Surgery and also on the editorial boards  of leading international journals of GI and HPB surgery. He is the Past President of the Indian Chapter of IHPBA. He is the current President of the APHPBA and the Secretary-General Elect of the IHPBA. In recognition of his work on pancreatic cancer and digestive cancer surgery in India, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014 (FRCS – Ad Eundem). In 2021, he became only the second Indian in the 144-year history of the American Surgical Association (ASA) to be conferred the Honorary Fellowship of ASA for “unusually noteworthy contributions to surgery of long-lasting value and worthy of the highest International Recognition”. He is the only Indian invited to serve as a board member of the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery (ISGPS) since 2023.