Priya Ranganathan works as a consultant anaesthesiologist at the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. She has a special interest in thoracic anaesthesia and is a member of the specialized thoracic anaesthesia working group. She completed her under-graduate and post-graduate training at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. She is a member of the Institutional Review Board at Tata Memorial Hospital and co-ordinates a post-graduate degree course in Clinical Research at TMC. She has organized several courses on biostatistics and clinical research methodology and is editor of the biostatistics section for the journals ‘Perspectives in Clinical Research’ and ‘Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine’. She is the convener of the CReDO (International Collaboration for Research methods Development in Oncology) workshop, which is an intensive residential oncology research protocol development workshop