Mohit Kakar is a doctoral candidate of Riga’s Stradins University (RSU) and a consultant pediatric surgeon at the Children’s Clinical University Hospital in Riga. He is a lecturer of the Pediatric Surgery Department of Riga’s Stradins University. He received his medical degree (M.D.) from the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in 2002. His field of research is pediatric appendicitis, which has provided new information for updating current algorithms at the Children’s Hospital and, potentially, internationally. He is a Network Office board member of the European Pediatric Surgeon Association as well as the Latvia’s Pediatric Surgeon Association, and member of the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons and Baltic Pediatric Surgeon Association.