Professor Dileep N. Lobo is a professor of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of Nottingham and a consultant hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK. He qualified from Bangalore University, India, and trained as a surgeon in Chandigarh, Nottingham, and Leicester. He was awarded a DM degree by the University of Nottingham, the prestigious Cuthbertson Medal, the James IV Society of Surgeons Traveller’s Award, the Moynihan Fellowship, and the Hunterian Professorship. His clinical interests focus on surgery of the liver, pancreas and biliary tree and laparoscopic surgery. His research interests include surgical nutrition and metabolism, fluid and electrolyte balance, and pancreatic cancer. He was awarded the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 2010 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2013. He served as president of the International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition and the Surgical Research Society. He has over 360 peer-reviewed publications and currently has an H-index of 75 on ISI and 92 on Google Scholar.