Sandhya A. Lagoo-Deenadayalan, MD, PhD, FACS, is Associate Chief of Staff, Chief of Surgical Services, at the Durham VA Health Care System, Professor of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine and a Senior Fellow in the Center of Aging and Human Development. &nbsp;She has worked closely with colleagues from multiple specialties to establish the interdisciplinary Peri-Operative Optimization of Senior Health Program. As Co-Director of the Duke Center for Geriatric Surgery, her goal is to improve surgical care for older adults by offering a person-centered approach through a collaborative platform that can develop and integrate advances in perioperative care through clinical innovation, robust hospital systems, education, and research. </span></span></span></span></p>