Dr. Ajay Shridhara Shetty is a Senior Consultant Urologist and Andrologist besides a Specialist in Renal Transplantation. He joined Bangalore Baptist Hospital (a unit of Christian Medical College, Vellore) in 2010 as a consultant wherein he was instrumental in starting the department of Urology. In keeping with the missionary philosophy of the Hospital, he was entrusted with the responsibilities of developing high quality “urolog services” at an affordable cost, particularly in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Endo-Urology and Urologic Oncology. He also started the Female Urology and Andrology services (including male infertility evaluation) at Bangalore Baptist Hospital. He has also mentored many undergraduate medical students for three years as an Associate Professor in the International Medical School, Malaysia Science University. He is also a recognised Postgraduate guide and teacher in DNB. Hailing from Mangalore, he did his schooling in Mumbai and thereafter underwent basic medical education and training at JSS Medical College Mysore, completing his MBBS in 1999.He had the benefit of comprehensive general surgical training at the Bangalore Baptist Hospital, which was adjudged as the best DNB training hospital in the country. He was awarded the Dr. B Ramamurthy DNB Gold medal for General Surgery in 2004 at national level. After two years of teaching and academics at a medical college, he then went on to complete his DNB-Urology training at Muljibhai Patel Centre in Nephron-Urology, in Nadiad, Gujarat, a Centre of Excellence of international repute, under the guidance and leadership of renowned Urologist Dr. Mahesh Desai.