Dr S Parija, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FAMS, FICAI, FABMS, FIMSA, FISCD, FIAVP, FICPath is Director-Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Pondicherry having nearly three decades of teaching and research experiences in Medical Microbiology.

Dr Anjan Dhar, DM, MD, FRCP(Edin) is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He has special interests in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, therapeutic advanced endoscopy and colonoscopy and Barrett’s Oesophagus.

Dr Bulchand was trained in medicine at the Christian Medical College in Vellore. She did his MBBS and MD from the same college. She spent six and a half years in the UK and the USA doing General Medicine and came back to India in 1971. She was in the Department of Medicine in CMCH, Vellore from 1971-1975. She was in PGI, Chandigarh for two years (1975-77), in the Nephrology Department.

Dr. Rajiv Yadav specialises in Urologic Oncology and Robotic Surgery. He joined ‘Medanta-The Medicity’ after finishing a Fellowship in Robotic Prostatectomy and Urologic Oncology Outcomes at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA.

Dr Mathew Varghese is a graduate and a post-graduate from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University. He is currently the Head of the Department of Orthopaedics, St Stephen's Hospital, Delhi.

Dr Ajay Sharma graduated from SMS Medical College, Jaipur. He did his Urology Training from BHU, Varanasi for the degree of M.Ch. in 1991.

Dr Handoo is a graduate and post-graduate (in Pathology) from Kasturba Medical College Mangalore, a unit of Manipal University, Manipal, India.

Chris Adams qualified from Cambridge University and Guy’s Hospital. His neurosurgical training was at Guy’s, the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London and at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize from the Royal College of Surgeons for his research work on the cervical spine.

Dr. Jayalakshmi T.S. received her master’s degree in Anaesthesiology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in 1974.