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Paulina Salminen, MD, PhD, FACS (Hon) is a Professor of Surgery at University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland. She is a surgeon scientist combing high-quality clinical research with continuous clinical work and her main research interests are also her clinical interests – acute care surgery focusing on acute appendicitis and bariatric surgery and acute care surgery. She is the principal investigatorfor a large randomized trial within the field of bariatric surgery comparing sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass (SLEEVEPASS) in the treatment of morbid obesity. She is also the PI of all APPAC randomized trials focusing on the treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitis and various prospective cohort studies. She is the past president of the Finnish Surgical Society, the current president of Finnish Bariatric Surgery Society and an executive board member of the International Federation for the Surgery on Obesity and related disorders (IFSO). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Scandinavian Journal of Surgery and an editorial board member of JAMA Surgery and British Journal of Surgery. She has been appointed as a member of European Surgical Association (ESA) in 2019 and in 2022 she received the honorary fellowship of the American College of Surgeons.