Our Mentors

It is with great pleasure we acknowledge our pillars of strength who have helped us during various stages of our research projects: they have been our advisors, they have been catalysts for our ideas and they have energized us when we ran low on morale. Our guardian angels are:

Professor Jörgen Larsson

• Professor and Dean Emeritus, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
• Member Nobel Assembly 1996-2014

Professor Thongueb Uttaravichien

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Khon Kaen University School of Medicine, Khon Kaen, Thailand
• Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal Awardee for Humanitarianism (2001)

Professor Johan Permert

• Professor, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
• Former Head, Department of Innovations and Development, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Professor Marie Diener-West

• Chair, Master of Public Health Program, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA
• Affiliations: Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA

Professor John G Meara

• Director, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School
• Co-Chair, Lancet Commission of Global Surgery
• Co-Director, Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program in collaboration with Partners In Health

Professor Ronan O’Connell

• Professor Emeritus of Surgery, School of Medicine, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• Joint Editor of Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery and Rob and Smith's Operative Surgery of the Colon Rectum and Anus.

Professor Chris Lavy

• Professor of Orthopaedic and Tropical Surgery, Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford UK
• Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford UK
• Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Professor Charlie Mock

• Professor of Global Health, Professor of Surgery and Professor of Epidemiology; University of Seattle, Washington USA
• Director of Global Health Minor, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Seattle, Washington USA

Professor David Jayne

• Professor of Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds UK
• National Institute of Health Research-Global Health Research Group-Surgical Technologies, Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
• First Bowel Cancer UK/Royal College of Surgeons of England Colorectal Research Chair

Professor Ravin Laxman Thatte

• Former Honorary Professor, Lokmanya Tilak Medical College Mumbai and Teacher to most plastic surgeons in India
• First Asian Surgeon to receive Ad Hominem Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Honorary member, British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons

Professor Pradyumna Vyas

• Former Director, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
• Former Member Secretary, India Design Council, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India.