Ashish Sharma is a highly experienced transplant surgeon. He has more than 200 publications in national and international journals. He has been instrumental in starting academic training programs in kidney and pancreas transplant at PGIMER. Under his leadership, the department has been able to establish a pancreas transplant program, donation after cardiac death, along with a comprehensive surveillance and interventional vascular access program. He has been awarded by the Ministry of Health and the Indian Society of Organ Transplant for his exemplary services in transplant.