Dr. Ashwani Kumar is a physician having a postgraduate degree in clinical pharmacology and an experienced medical researcher with a more than 14 years of cumulative academic-industry experience. In addition to Dr Kumar’s academic achievements, he has worked extensively in various roles ranging from early-to-late phase clinical and medical research. He has extensive clinical trials management and operational experience including large multinational studies. He is pursuing his PhD in the area of ICD-coded sepsis disease burden at Critical Care Program of the George Institute for Global Health and working as Research Fellow with the Australian Sepsis Network. In last few years, he has been actively involved in sepsis epidemiological research conducted in Australia and India. His interests areas include estimating accurate sepsis disease burden using validated ICD coding methods in Australia and LMICs, and early sepsis diagnosis.