Vijay K. Mittal, M.D., M.S, F.I.C.S., F.A.C.S.: Dr. Mittal is the Associate Director of Medical Education. He has also been the chief and program director of general surgery at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. He was interim chair of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Mittal holds a clinical appointment as a Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

He completed his medical education at Amritsar Medical College followed by his surgical residency at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India. He later joined the faculty at the same institution and participated in the first kidney transplant at PGI in 1972 in India. He migrated to the United States in 1974. He practiced in general, vascular and transplant surgery. He was Director of the Pancreatic Transplant Program and Associate Director of Transplantation at Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital/Grace Hospital.

Dr. Mittal is a member of various surgical societies including American College of Surgeons, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Association of Program Directors in Surgery, Western Surgical Association, Midwest Surgical Association, AHPBA, IHPBA, SAGES, SESC, ASE, International Society of Transplantation, and a founding member of the Transplant Society of India. Dr. Mittal’s scholarly activities include greater than 260 published articles in peer review journals, more that 410 paper presentations, video presentations, multiple visiting professorships, and nine book chapters. Dr. Mittal is the senior editor of Comprehensive Textbook of Surgery and American Journal of Robotic Surgery. He is on the editorial board of many surgical journals. He has received multiple research and teaching awards. He has delivered many guest lectures at various institutions and conferences in his career.

He was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship in teaching and research by the Fulbright Commission. His Fulbright project involves the evaluation of global surgical education. The project took place in India. Dr. Mittal delivered Panchan Chatterjee oration in 2010 awarded by ASI to a foreign academic surgeon. He delivered the fifth transplant oration at PGI Chandigarh in 2014. Recently in 2019, he was honored with an honorary fellowship of Surgeons of India at their annual meeting. Dr. Mittal was president of the International College of Surgeons—US Section and world governor of ICS. Dr. Mittal has been the president of the Detroit Surgical Association, Academy of Surgery of Detroit and American College of Surgeons-Michigan Chapter. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, International College of Angiology and International College of Surgeons. In 2019, he was elected as

governor of the American College of Surgeons. He is a surgical educator and is interested in global surgical education.