Dr. Shailesh V. Shrikhande is Professor of Surgery and Head of Gastrointestinal and Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgical Service and also the Convener of the GI – Disease Management Group at the Tata Memorial Center in Mumbai, India. He has received specialist training in Pancreatic Research and Pancreatic Surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland and the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Apart from having published over 110 clinical and basic science papers in leading journals, Dr. Shrikhande has given live operative demonstrations on pancreatic, gastric and colorectal cancer. In addition, he has contributed over 40 book chapters and is the Chief Editor of the books “Surgery of Pancreatic tumors” and “Pancreatic Cancer: Current Understanding”. To promote awareness on pancreatic tumors in Asia, he founded the website www.pancreaticcancerindia.com . He is also on editorial and review boards of many international journals. He is on the Scientific Committee of the IHPBA and also AP-HPBA.