Ponnandai S Somasundar MD, MPH, FACS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston University. He is the Vice Chairman of Surgery and the Director of the Geriatric Oncology program at Roger Williams Medical Center at Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Roger Williams Medical Center is an affiliate of the Boston University. He is a surgical oncologist/hepatobiliary surgeon with minimally invasive surgery as the interest. He has several publications and is serving as the associate editor in several journals.