Professor Michael Solomon is a Consultant Surgeon and Academic Head of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He is Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Sydney and is a past President of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia & New Zealand (CSSANZ) and Chairman of the RACS/CSSANZ Training Board in Colorectal Surgery. Professor Solomon has extensive experience in clinical surgical research and has published over 500 peer reviewed papers, multiple chapters in books and has been invited to present 17 international named lectures. Professor Solomon has supervised over 60 higher degree students and been awarded for his own career research the highest research doctorate degree from the National University of Ireland (DMed) and from the University of Sydney (DMedSc). He has a Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology (MSc) from the University of Toronto and has focused his career on evidence based surgery and clinical trials and is now concentrating on mentoring young academic surgeons as Chairman of the Institute of Academic Surgery at RPA and Head of the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe) at the University of Sydney. Professor Solomon has been awarded 15 international awards the most recent Lifelong Membership of the CSSANZ for his research, training of fellows and his overall international contribution to colorectal surgery. Professor Solomon’s surgical expertise is in both minimally and maximally invasive colorectal surgery with specific expertise also in inflammatory bowel disease and complex fistula in ano.