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Dr. Puligandla attended the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada for medical school where he graduated as a member of its Hippocratic Council Honor Society. He went on to finish his adult general surgery residency (concurrent with a MSc in Respiratory Physiology) in London before moving to the Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for fellowships in both pediatric surgery and pediatric critical care medicine. He has been dually appointed in both of these divisions as attending staff since 2003. He is only one of two pediatric surgeons in Canada who practices the full scope of pediatric critical care medicine. Since 2008, he has been the program director for the pediatric surgery fellowship training program at the MCH. He currently holds the academic rank of Professor in Pediatric Surgery, Pediatrics and Surgery at McGill University. In 2018, he was the first Canadian in 40 years to be elected to serve on the Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery where he is the lead for trauma/surgical critical care. Dr. Puligandla is also a co-Director of the Canadian Pediatric Surgery Network (CAPSNet), a national, population-based registry for infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia and gastroschisis.