Dr Shagufta Choudhary is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Abhishek Day Care Institute and St Elizabeth Hospital, Mumbai. She completed her M.D. in Anaesthesiology from Bombay Hospital in 2008. She is a practicing Anaesthesiologist since the past 10 years. Since the last 5 years, she has dedicated herself to the field of ambulatory anaesthesia and strives for minimum hospitalization time of patients coming for day care surgery. She has published various articles on ambulatory anaesthesia in National and International journals. She attended the 12thCongress on International Ambulatory Surgical Society held in Beijing in May 2017 as a part of the Indian contingent. She believes in the bright future and greater acceptance of ambulatory surgery worldwide.