Shomik Sengupta is Professor of Surgery and deputy Head of School at the Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University and a consultant urologist, Uro-Oncology lead and currently acting co-director of the Department of Urology, Eastern Health. Shomik has a practice with a uro-oncology subspecialty interest – including open, laparoscopic and robotic cancer surgery. He completed his urological training through the Victorian Section of the Urological Society of Australia & New Zealand (USANZ) and subsequently completed a Uro-Oncology fellowship at the prestigious Mayo Clinic, USA. He has also completed a Masters in Surgery (2002) and a Doctorate in Medicine (2014) through the University of Melbourne

Shomik is a strong contributor to USANZ, having been the Chair of the Victorian training subcommittee from 2014 to 2016, and the leader of the GU Oncology advisory group from 2013 to 2019. Shomik also has a strong interest in urologic research, including involvement in clinical trials through the Australian and New Zealand Urogenital & Prostate (ANZUP) cancer trials group, where he is a member of the Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee. Shomik has more than 150 original publications to date and has been an invited speaker/session chair at a number of scientific meetings. Shomik was convenor of the ANZUP Annual Scientific Meeting in 2013, the scientific program director for the USANZ Annual Scientific Meeting in 2017 and scientific co-chair of the Urological Association of Asia annual congress in 2022.