Rajan Saxena was born on 01-03- in Lucknow and is Dean and Head of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, a medical institution of national importance in India and Padma Shri (2004) awardee.^[1] He is an alumnus of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,^{[citation needed]} and specialises in hepatobiliary pancreatic and liver transplant surgery.^[2]