Dr Vikram Kekatpure is a Senior Consultant, Head and Neck Surgeon at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata. He has two decades of experience and previously, having worked as Senior consultant and head, Mazumdar Shaw cancer center, Narayana Health, Bangalore and Aster CMI hospital, Bangalore. He completed his MBBS and MS from Nagpur University and MCh (head and neck surgery) from Amrita Institute of medical sciences Kochi. He received research fellowship from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer center, New York and post-doctoral research training at the Weill Medical College of the Cornell University, New York City. Dr Vikram holds leadership positions in various national and international academic societies. He has served as the national secretary and treasurer of the Foundation for Head and Neck Oncology, national association of head and neck oncologists in India. He is an executive member of the head and neck cooperative oncology group. He has several peer reviewed national and international publications and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences. Dr Vikram has special interests in management of advanced head and neck cancers, salvage surgery, complex post ablative reconstruction and rehabilitation, management of thyroid and laryngeal cancers. His research interests include tobacco carcinogenesis and tumor metastasis.