Dr. Mamta Swaroop is a dynamic, collaborative, and visionary academic global trauma surgery leader. She has been an invited national and international visiting professor and keynote speaker and authored over 60 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters. She is the co-Editor of the book, Success in Academic Surgery: Academic Global Surgery. Academic Global Surgery involves the application of research, education, and evidence-based advocacy towards surgical healthcare in regions with health inequities. She has mentored 100+ rising leaders around the world, ranging from undergraduate students to junior faculty members to grow academically, secure funding, and make a difference.Over the last decade, Dr. Swaroop excelled as a Trauma, Acute Care, and Critical Care Surgeon, researcher, and mentor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She served as an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Critical Care, the Director for the Center for Global Surgery, and the Global Surgery Fellowship Program Director. Her lab, the Sadanah Trauma and Surgical Initiative (formerly the NTSI), aims to build sustainable access to surgical care through education and research in low resource settings, locally and internationally. Dr. Swaroop and her lab conduct community-directed research and programmatic development in Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Engaged in the community, Dr. Swaroop co-chaired the inaugural Women in Medicine Symposium at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and co-founded the Women in Medicine Summit: An Evolution in Empowerment in Chicago. To honor her family’s legacy, Dr. Swaroop founded the 501(c)(3) NGO, the Sadanah Foundation, to build sustainable access to health care and education in low resource settings. She was recognized as one of Oprah’s Health Heroes, received the 39th annual Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, presented the keynote address at the Royal College of Surgeons Global Frontiers Conference in London, and received the Inaugural Mahler Global Mentorship Award from the InciSioN Network. As a Board Certified physician, she completed her Bachelor of Science in Microbiology at Texas A&M University, Medical Doctorate at the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center, General Surgery residency at the University of South Florida, and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Northwestern University. Dr. Swaroop also functioned as a visiting fellow in India at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.