Dr (Colonel) Avnish Kumar Seth,  a transplant hepatologist at Manipal Hospital New Delhi, heads Manipal Organ Sharing & Transplant (MOST), a deceased donation and transplant initiative for 27 Manipal Hospitals in India. Over the last 16 years he has successfully led similar initiatives at eight Armed Forces hospitals as Director of Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplant Authority (AORTA) and 18 Fortis Hospitals as Head, Fortis Organ Retrieval and Transplant (FORT). His Seth-Donation of Organs and Tissues (S-DOT) score is widely used for assessment of hospitals for best practices in the field. He established the IDEAL (Immediate Donation of Eyes After Life) protocol, a nursing and smart phone based system of counselling families for cornea donation. With over 100 publications, he has actively participated in ISODP Congress held at Seoul, Geneva and Dubai. Dr. Seth is member of Apex Technical Committee of National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) and member of Advisory Board on organ donation for States of Haryana and Sikkim. He is the lead author of the Expert Group that developed joint consensus statement on DCDD in India in 2022. He has been awarded Vishist Seva Medal by the President of India for organ donation and transplantation.