Dr. Anil Kapoor is currently Professor of Surgery (Urology) at McMaster University/ St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his MD from Dalhousie University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a Diplomate of American Board of Urology. He is certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, having obtained post-graduate training from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Renal Transplantation and GU Oncology. He has been invited as a Visiting Professor at Queen's University, University of Ottawa, University of British Columbia, University of Manitoba, Western University, Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), and Dalhousie University. Dr. Kapoor is current Head of the Genito-Urinary Oncology program at the Juravinski Cancer Centre, Program Director of the McMaster University Urology Residency Program, and Co-Chair of the NCIC Kidney Cancer Disease Group. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, 5 book chapters and over 150 abstracts in the fields of kidney transplantation, urologic laparoscopy, and urologic oncology with focus on kidney cancer and prostate cancer. He has established the Kidney Cancer Centre of Excellence at McMaster University in 2009, and is current Head of the Clinical Trials Group at the McMaster Institute of Urology (MIU).