From the ^∗Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

^†Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX

^‡Department of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL.

Address correspondence to: Ashok K. Saluja, PhD, Department of Surgery and Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute, University of Miami, Suite 510A, 1501 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33136 (e-mail: [email protected]).

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

This obituary is also being published in the journal “Pancreatology” and its modified version in “Indian Journal of Gastroenterology.”