Sharad Vaidya (7 March 1936 – 19 October 2000) was an Indian surgeon who specialized in cancer surgery.

He initially worked in the Goa Medical College as Asst professor of Surgery for 5 years.

When there were inadequate resources he would develop and make new tools - one example is a rapid film changer for cerebral angiograms.

Despite his busy clinical practice he devoted time to raise funds and collected talented people to build the Gosalia Memorial Cancer Hospital, Dona Paula, Goa - the first full-fledged cancer hospital in the region.

[1][2][3] This act was the culmination of 30 years of efforts to educate the people and children of Goa about the harmful effects of tobacco on health, economy and ecology,[citation needed] and effectively reducing[citation needed] the rates of tobacco-related diseases such as heart disease and cancer in the last decade of the 20th century.