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Dr. Abhishek Rajan Desai

Abhishek is PGP in Management (MBA) from the Indian School of Business, with dual majors in Strategy & Marketing to complement his 8 years of experience in healthcare operations and delivery in the US and the Indian Healthcare Systems. He is currently working for Thermo Fisher Scientific as MT- Strategy and Commercial Excellence.

He graduated from the MS program in Health and Rehabilitation from University of Pittsburgh and the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy Program from Seth GS Medical College in Mumbai.

He is seasoned clinician in the space of physical and cognitive rehabilitation along with demonstrated track record in leading clinical operations and healthcare delivery in hospitals, rehabilitation centers and nursing homes in the US and India.

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Ms. Ahaana Mahanti

Ahaana Mahanti is a Researcher at Centre for Business Markets, Indian School of Business. A post-graduate in Commerce with a Marketing Major from St. Xavier’s College Kolkata, she has been associated with Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and International Management Institute Kolkata in the past in academic and research profiles.

Her research interests in healthcare, social marketing and consumer psychology are motivated by her personal concerns arising out of her interactions with unfortunate patients with mental illness, the lack of awareness and support around mental well-being, how it adversely affects reproductive well-being and the stigma around these conversations. She is of the opinion that social marketing efforts taken collaboratively by industry experts, educators, NGOs and development organizations can go a long way in addressing and fulfil this disturbing gap and empowering individuals to make informed choices.

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Dr. Amaresh Rao Malempati

Dr. Amaresh Rao Malempati is a Cardio Thoracic and Vascular surgeon into academic practice at The Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is the Unit head for the Departments of Cardio Thoracic Surgery and Vascular Surgery.

He is an alumnus of Government Medical College , Nagpur where he has completed his MBBS and MS ( Gen Surgery) . He has completed his super specialty training at Sri Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. He has worked as a junior Resident at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He completed his Advanced Management Program In Healthcare from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

He has over 40 indexed publications in national and international journals, and is a regular faculty in national level conferences, seminars and workshops.

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Mr. Anand Sen

Mr. Anand Sen is the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tata International Limited. An engineer from IIT Kharagpur, Mr Sen holds a postgraduate diploma in Business Management (Marketing) from IIM, Kolkata. He also has an Executive MBA from CEDEP at INSEAD, France. He has over 35 years of experience working at Tata Steel in various capacities. His last role was as President, Steel Business and Total Quality Management (TQM). He has worked across Marketing and Sales, Strategy and Business Leadership, Operations, Maintenance, Technology, Supply Chain and Projects, in his more than three decade-long career.

Mr. Sen has served as Chairman of several Tata companies: · Tata Steel Processing & Distribution · Tayo Rolls · NatSteel He has also been a board member for Tata BlueScope Steel, Tinplate Company of India, Jamshedpur Continuous Annealing & Processing, and Bhushan Steel. He has served as Chairman of the India Chapter of Association of Iron & Steel Technology; represented India in the Manufacturing Working Group under the BRICS Business Council, and co-chairs the CII National Committee on Steel, and Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion.

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Ms. Anumeha Srivastava

Anumeha Srivastava is a physiotherapist with experience across clinical and non-clinical roles. She presently works with Qure, a health tech start-up that works to improve access to high quality radiological findings using Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning tools.

She enjoys learning about self-sustainable non-profit models with robust impact assessment models. Her clinical interests lie in chronic pain management and multi-disciplinary models for physical and psychological rehabilitation.

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Ms. Anuradha Reddy Guda

Anuradha Reddy Guda is currently working as an Academic Associate at the Indian School of Business in the Marketing domain. She is interested in marketing related research around healthcare, consumer behaviour, green marketing.

She is currently working on a research project related to the stigma around reproductive well-being and mindset of consumers when purchasing stigmatized products.

She has an educational background in Health Administration and work experience in Human Resource Management and Business Management. She has worked in many start-ups and contributed towards the overall growth of the organization.

Mr. Arvind Murali Venkatesan

Arvind Murali Venkatesan has a Bachelor’s in Industrial Biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai and a PhD in Biomedical Science/Cancer Biology from University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.

Arvind has worked for ~3 years as head of Cell Engineering team at Syngene International as a Lead Scientific Investigator. He has keen interests in the healthcare space and wants to contribute towards equitable & universal healthcare access using his scientific and business skills.

He is currently pursuing an MBA at the Indian School of Business.

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Ms. Bindu Sukeshini

Bindu Sukeshini is a Senior Management professional with diverse skills in Corporate Strategy, Business /Product Development & Growth Management, Operations & Cost Reduction through Business Process Re-Engineering, Negotiation skills, Quality Assurance, Insurance Advisory Services, Health Care Management.

Bindu is an Engineer with MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. She is also an alumnus of ISB (Advanced Management Program in Health Care).

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Dr. Devendra Tayade

Dr. Devendra Tayade is a Dentist by qualification who got into Healthcare Management to pursue his passion. Bringing trust and ethics back into healthcare is his larger purpose and he believes that this can be done by influencing the content and delivery of medical and management education.

An aspiring researcher, he previously worked at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad as a Research Associate. At ISB, he worked on a research project funded by Ernst and Young that intended to find enablers and barriers to providing equitable healthcare access.

He has also worked at Aravind as Manager-Employee Engagement where he was part of the team which wrote down Aravind’s value system based on their research.

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Ms. Harini Mahadevan

Harini Mahadevan is currently pursuing her PGP in Management from the Indian School of Business.

She has worked for Amazon as a software development engineer for two plus years. She is a B.E. in Computer Science Engineering from Anna University.

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Dr. Harish Iyer

Dr. Harish Iyer is India Country Lead, R&D and Senior Scientific Advisor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India Country Office and leads the Scientific Programs in the country for the Foundation. As Senior Advisor, he is a strategic partner between Indian researchers, global partners and the Foundation’s Global Health team in critical R&D work including in vaccine-preventable diseases, understanding causes of childhood mortality, new approaches to treating neglected diseases and Life Sciences Partnerships.

Prior to his role at the Foundation, Harish was the CEO of Shantha Biotech from 2011-2015. Harish has also worked in various R&D roles in several biotech companies including as Head of R&D at Biocon, and in various technical roles at Biogen-IDEC and Genentech. Harish has a PhD in chemical engineering, and has done an executive program in leadership and strategy in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology at Harvard Business School in 2010.

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Mr. Kartic Vaidyanathan

Kartic Vaidyanathan is the founder of LetsPlayToLearn, an initiative that enables joyful learning through the power of play for corporates and educational institutions. He also conducts workshops for corporates and educational institutions on tools and techniques for gamified interactive learning.

He has published 2 research papers on Play/Game-Based Learning for NTSC (National Teachers Science Congress) in Dec 2018 and in FOL (Future of Learning Conference) in Jan 2019 and was invited to present at the MASAGA (Malaysian Simulation and Gaming Conference) in Sept 2019.

He has been teaching a course at IIT Madras called “Let Us Play to Learn” to help students build games for engineering subjects.

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Dr. Kiran M

Dr. Kiran M is Senior Consultant and Head of Neurosurgery department at Narayana Health City, Bangalore. He has over 12 years of experience in Neurosurgery. He has a special interest and expertise in Skull Base and Spine surgery and has shared this all over world through conferences, publications and mentoring programs. Under the umbrella of his organization, he has conducted health camps in remote places such as Iraq, Nigeria, Morocco, and Zambia and has also participated in meetings with Governmental, NGO and other Health care givers for enhancing patient care in these countries through mutual collaboration.

He is also a certified Internal Counsellor- NABH, Quality council of India. He has worked with reputed institutions like NIMHANS and was the Associate Professor at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.

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Dr. Komal Prasad Chandrachari

Dr. Komal Prasad Chandrachari, is Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon at Narayana Hrudayalaya Multispecialty Hospital, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center and NH Health City in Bangalore. He is also the Principal Assessor for the National Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH), Quality Council of India

He has been practicing at Narayana Health for fifteen years, and is also actively involved in postgraduate training in neurosurgery. He started neurosurgery services at Health City, Cayman Islands, an ambitious project of Narayana Health in the Caribbean. He was instrumental in creation of a Center of Excellence for Nanoparticles Research at Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center, Bengaluru. A lean six sigma professional, he was part of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Institute of Quality Healthcare Mission to UK.

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Prof. K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao

Prof. K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao received his PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru in 2002. He held postdoc positions at Universite de Province at Marseille; Indian Statistical Institute at Delhi, University of Texas at Dallas and TIFR Bengaluru. He joined IEOR at IIT Bombay in 2007, where he is currently a Professor.

Prof. Rao’s areas of expertise and interest are diverse and vary from Control Theory, Game Theory, Networks, Probability, Optimization and Mathematical Finance.

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Dr. Lakshmi Kanth Galla

Dr. Lakshmi Kanth Galla is an emergency physician with 11 years of experience in critical patient care. He is currently working in the area of quality emergency care beyond Tier-2 cities.

He is the Founder of Brave Citizens, an NPO for prehospital emergency care awareness and of WinMedica Healthcare Pvt Ltd. He is also the Course Director for MEM (Masters in EM) and is a Clinical quality consultant: NABH internal assessor.

Dr Lakshmi Kanth is a state awardee for clinical excellence in emergency. He has completed his AMPH from the Indian School of Business.

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Dr. Madhu Uddaraju

Dr. Madhu Uddaraju is a Corneal Transplant & Refractive Surgeon. He has trained at Aravind Eye Hospital Madurai. He is the Director of Srikiran Institute of Ophthalmology, a not-for-profit eye care organization in Coastal Andhra Pradesh. He Co-chairs his father’s 35-year-old UVSM Eye Hospital & Trust, which also runs a free school for the visually challenged. He also manages Ramana Raju’s Vision Tree in Visakhapatnam along with his sister Dr. Shanthi PVS.

He is a passionate teacher who has been training and mentoring fellows in corneal surgery from 2014. He has performed more than 1500 corneal transplants including complex Keratoprosthetic surgeries. He is one of the pioneers in India to perform Bowmans Layer Transplantation for Keratoconus. He has received several national and international awards and published articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the Indian Partner for Harvard global alliance for Medical Innovation. His areas of interest are patient safety ,quality and infection control.

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Dr. Meena Som

Dr. Meena Som is a Public Health professional with over 25 years of experience in the areas of Maternal Health, Newborn and Child Health, Tuberculosis control, HIV/ AIDS, Public Health in Emergencies, Adolescent health, Midwifery and Health System Strengthening etc.

She is a medical doctor with a PhD and MSc in Public Health. She has been working with UNICEF for more than 10 years in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana and Odisha and is currently leading their health programme in Odisha.

She has worked with WHO, CARE India and PLAN International over the years.

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Dr. Neha Jain

Dr. Neha Jain is a Senior Consultant in the Public Health Administration Department of the National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), MOHFW. She is a healthcare enthusiast who is passionate about Public Health.

She is an MBBS from TNMC & Nair Hospital Mumbai and has done her MD in Pharmacology, from MGM Medical College and Hospital, Jamshedpur. She has also completed her MBA from ISB in 2018

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Ms. Nikita Parab

Nikita Parab has a Bachelor in Pharmacy from UDCT/ICT. Upon graduation, she decided to move to US to pursue a Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences at University at Buffalo. Following that she joined a consultancy firm called Cognigen Corporation as a drug development Scientist in New York. After spending 5 years in the US, she decided to move back to India for good and joined ISB for their MBA PGP program.

She has recently joined a healthcare start-up called Wellthy Therapeutics as Senior Manager – Business Development. Wellthy Therapeutics is India’s first digital therapeutic company working in chronic disease management. Nikita is passionate about healthcare and wishes to use her education and work experience to touch lives of people not only in India but around the world. She is excited to be a part of this consortium and contribute towards its mission.

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Ms. Nita Sachan

Nita Sachan has over 20+ years of experience working at the interface of business solutions, innovation and technology. Her expertise is in the areas of Medical Devices, Genomics, Biotech and Pharmaceuticals. She has a PhD from Univ. of Roorkee, MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB) and MS from IIT Roorkee.

She is currently working as VP Investments with Endiya Partners. Prior to Endiya, she worked at Cyient leading their Strategy and New product development for their Medical Business Unit. She also helped drive healthcare-focused corporate venture investments and M&A. She works extensively with the ecosystem players such as corporate firms, incubators, start-ups, hospitals, government agencies, industry associations and foundations. She believes in being an enabler in the ecosystem for getting world-class technology to market.

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Dr. N.S.D. Prasad Rao

Dr. N.S.D. Prasad Rao is the Founder and CEO of Ameya Life which is a social enterprise and a preventive healthcare organization which aims to close the diagnostic gap for Non-Communicable Diseases among school children.

Dr. Rao has over 37 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a healthcare provider, healthcare facility manager and a healthcare entrepreneur. He is a Civil Assistant Surgeon and in an earlier capacity was the DGO in Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad.

He has completed his M.B.B.S from Kakatiya Medical College.

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Mr. Pravin Shekar

Pravin Shekar is an outlier marketer and a parallel entrepreneur.He heads KREA (India’s leading Health research panel) and is a Managing Partner at Outlier Marketing consulting firm, KRUX108. Pravin is also a social investor in CAN DO (a BPO, by/for the physically challenged) & KÄSE, (a producer of fresh-cheese made by hearing impaired).

Pravin is the President of the Market Research Society of India, a Trustee at the Jeevan Stem Cell research center and an advisor at the Bhoomika Trust for disaster relief and management. Pravin’s first book DEVIL DOES CARE on frugal outlier marketing was launched in 2016.

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Dr. Rajesh Iyer

Dr. Rajesh Iyer is a consultant Neurologist at Vikram Hospital in Bangalore. He was earlier associated with Narayana Hrudayalya Institute of Neurosciences where he established the Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Center. He has served as a faculty for several regional and national Epilepsy Conferences and Workshops. He is the president of the Karnataka Chapter of Multiple Sclerosis Society of India.

Dr. Iyer completed his MBBS from Government Medical College, Trivandrum. He then went on to do MD in General Medicine from the same college and DM in Neurology from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medial Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum.

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Mr. Rajesh Pandit

Rajesh Pandit is recognized as a “Confidante” to corporate leaders and start-up founders. He is a start-up adviser and management consultant with over 25 years of experience. For over a decade, Rajesh has advised several customer facing teams and leaders at Aditya Birla, TE Connectivity, Tata Group and several small and medium enterprises. He has worked as an external adviser to CEO’s think-tank team.

He has worked with multiple accelerators and incubation centers in guiding start-ups in the area customer acquisition and retention. Currently, he is a coach to PlugIn Accelerator, a collaboration between Intel, Department of Science and Technlongy and IIT Bomay – Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Rajesh is also an investor in start-ups and serves as a director in one of the companies.

Rajesh is a highly respected visiting faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Udaipur and IIM Shillong . He has been a master faculty at Wadhwani Foundation, a renowned not-for-profit focused on job creation in the developing world.

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Dr. Sameera Ali

Dr. Sameera Ali is a Dental surgeon with 13 years of clinical experience coupled with an MBA from ISB, Hyderabad. A passionate doctor with proven expertise in multiple domains across clinical healthcare and health tech.

Until recently she was the Program Manager at mfine

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Dr. Sanjeev Upadhyaya

Dr. Sanjeev Upadhyaya is presently working as the Health Specialist, UNICEF, Hyderabad (India), where he is in-charge of UNICEF’s health activities in three large south Indian states – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. He is instrumental in grounding Facility Based Newborn Care, Kangaroo Mother Care, Labour Room Standardization, and Midwifery in these states. He is a member of several high-level committees on Midwifery, Newborn Care, Immunization and Quality of Care. He has several papers in national and international journals to his credit.

Dr Upadhyaya is a public health expert, with an MD in Community Medicine from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS) Sevagram, Wardha; the Department of Community Medicine is currently a WHO collaboration Centre. He has graduated from LLRM Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Dr. Sudha Murthy

Dr. Sudha Murthy has over 2 decades of rich experience in the diagnostic oncology space. She brings to the table high order interpretative oncopathology and commercializing capabilities for leveraging the potential of technology and specialized expertise in healthcare. She is also a Lean Six Sigma green belt( exemplar certified).

She is currently the Director (Clinical Support) at Datar Cancer Genetics Limited

In her earlier avatar as the Chief of Lab Medicine @Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital she was responsible for the overall operations, administration, advisory services and academics of Pathology and lab medicine.

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Dr. Sudha Vidyasagar

Dr. Sudha Vidyasagar graduated from Stanley Medical College Chennai and did her postgraduation (MD) in General Medicine from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.

She is currently working as Professor of Medicine at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the same college and was the head of department of medicine from 2010-2015.

Her areas of interest are in patient care, academic activities and research. She is also actively involved in clinical trials. She regularly organizes educational meetings for young diabetics, as part of a national project in the same group of patients and has helped build a fund to support these patients with insulin and free investigations, to ease their financial burden.

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Ms. Vidhya Srinivasan

Vidhya Srinivasan is a PG Diploma in PR and has an Advertising and Law Degree from Mumbai University. She has worked in advertising agencies in Mumbai and Chennai in marketing and consumer research. Currently manages Sarara, her own boutique consulting firm in Marketing Communications. She is a Visiting Professor of brand management and integrated marketing communication, teaching MBA students at various colleges and in IIM Shillong.

Vidhya is also an Adoption Counsellor, helping prospective adoptive parents through the journey of adoption along with being a skill-based volunteer for NGOs working with children in healthcare, sports and music and towards vocational rehab for transgenders. She is also the Co-Founder and Trustee and Vocalist in Aarohi , a Retro Bollywood music band which sings to raise funds for charitable causes and an active Rotarian for the last 20 years.

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