Dr Vikram Puttaswamy is Head of Department of Vascular and Renal Transplant Surgery at Royal North Shore Hospital. He has been a consultant vascular and renal transplant surgeon at North Shore Private and Royal North Shore Hospitals for over 20 years. He is a Fellow in both General Surgery and Vascular Surgery of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He trains surgeons across the ANZ and APAC region. He Chair of the NSW RACS Trauma Committee and member of the NSW RACS State Committee