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Urvashi Prasad is a public policy specialist at NITI Aayog, the Indian Government’s premier think tank. She is also the founder of Every Voice, a platform that highlights the perspectives, needs, challenges and aspirations of people living in poverty in their own words. Urvashi was previously a Director at Operation ASHA, one of India’s largest tuberculosis control NGOs. She also led the health portfolio of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in India for five years. Urvashi is on the governing board of Partnership for TB Care & Control, the largest tuberculosis network in India. She completed her Bachelors in Genetics from University of Birmingham, UK, followed by a Masters in Bioscience Enterprise from University of Cambridge, UK and a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Urvashi is passionate about gender-related and animal welfare issues. She is also a blogger and writes extensively for several platforms including the Huffington Post and Nextbillion.net.

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Dr Naresh Shetty is an orthopedic surgeon specialized in trauma and arthroplasty for the past 21 years. With an aptitude in administration, he was the Medical Director at M S Ramaiah Medical Teaching Hospital from 1998-2003 and at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital from 2004 to 2011. He is now the President for International Program and Strategic Alliance at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital. He is the member of Board of Studies in Medical (PG) – (Clinical) – Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and President for Orthopedic Association of South Indian States for the year 2012 – 2013. He has been conferred with International Youth Exchange Programme Award by the Rotary International in 1993 and Howmedica Fellowship in 1993, HongKong.

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Dr. Thomas has served the healthcare sector for over 30 years, and holds positions in several national associations that address issues within the healthcare sector: he is the , Founder-Member and President of the Association of National Board Accredited Institutions (ANBAI), Founder-President (2012-2017) and Patron of the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations (CAHO). He played a significant part in incorporating healthcare communication among the NABH Accreditation Standards for Hospitals (4th Edition), introducing communication skills within the MBBS and PG curricula for medical students across India, rolling back the service tax for the health sector and making assaults on doctors a non-bailable offence. Due to his efforts, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) of India made entry-level accreditation mandatory for the empanelment of hospitals, which will result in mandatory empanelment (currently numbering 33,000 hospitals). Dr. Thomas led the expert group on medical education for the National Education Policy (2019) headed by Dr. Kasturirangan. He initiated the creation of a national Think Tank on Health at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU).At the State level, Dr. Thomas played an important role in developing the State Public Health Policy as the Member-Secretary of its Task Force. He has led committees for NABH accreditation of government hospitals in Karnataka, the implementation of NBE accreditation for DNB courses in district hospitals of Karnataka, and working towards a tobacco-free Karnataka.Dr Thomas co-edited the Handbook of Healthcare Quality (2016). Other important publications led by Dr. Thomas are the Guidebook for Pre-Accreditation Entry-Level Standards for Small Healthcare Organizations (2015) supported by the World Bank and NABH; Dr. Thomas was awarded the Emeritus Teacher Award by NBE for his distinguished achievements and contributions to the field of Medical Education (2014).

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Dr. Ashish Jain is the CEO at Healthcare Sector Skill Council. His key strengths are in Relationship Building, External Relations, Policy Advocacy, Communication, Strategy and Planning. He also has strong skills in maintaining and building relations with government ministries and department, institutions, academia and media. An effective communicator with excellent people management & leadership abilities.

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Raviganesh Venkataraman is the Cheif Executive Officer at Cloudnine Group of Hospital. He is a Business Leader with Strategic and Operational experience – along the full value chain from Procurement to Sales, Strategy development to M&A – across varied Industries and geographies in India and Asia.

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Dr. Mudit Saxena is a clinician who started his career at a primary health center in rural India. He then trained to be an administrator with a Masters in Hospital Administration and MBA from IIM Bangalore. He pursued and successfully completed his academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University. He is currently serving as Managing Director & CEO with Ovum Hospitals – a well-known chain of Birthing Hospitals. Prior to this he served as Group CEO for CARE Hospitals – the fifth largest chain of hospitals in India; he was also the COO for HCG Enterprises Ltd. – the leading Cancer Chain of Hospitals and Program Director at Fortis, Gurgaon. With over 22 years of experience in leadership roles in corporate, trust and public sector healthcare organizations, he is recognized for his deep and incisive knowledge on Indian Healthcare at both National and International platforms. Dr. Mudit has served as Chairperson, Key Speaker and Panelist at various international and national healthcare forums such as Chairman at the Healthcare World Asia Conference Singapore, Key Speaker at UK India Healthcare Summit at UK Parliament, London. He is one of the Mentors at HealthPod – an incubator which focuses specifically on healthcare start-ups from the seed stage onwards. Dr. Mudit has been awarded by ASIA One as the World’s Greatest Leaders in Asia and GCC (Healthcare) at Dubai in May 2017. He was also adjudged the Indian Affairs Health Administrator of the year 2017 at India Leadership Conclave, Mumbai in August 2017.

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Manisha Kumar is the Hospital Head and General Manager of Columbia Asia Hospital Sarjapur Road. From commissioning the hospital from scratch to turning it profitable in 11 months to winning Indian Express award for Operational excellence this June – She has played a key role in starting up and shaping up the hospital with most cutting edge and state of art facility and turning it into an advanced quaternary care centre. She Heads the group flagship Hospital, which is Columbia Asia’s Largest Hospital in India.
Manisha has won many awards including 2 FICCI Healthcare awards for ideating and implementing processes that achieved quantum improvements in patient safety and service delivery standards of the hospital. She has over 10 years of experience in P&L management, Operations, and Strategy, and was earlier heading the flagship and largest MAX hospital in Saket, New Delhi.
She is an alumni of Indian School of Business, with major in business strategy and finance; she has authored papers and case studies on cost management and profitability in healthcare delivery and also mentors B school students on pursuing career in General Management.

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Prabhdeep leads StanPlus as its CEO. He was born in Chandigarh, India. He is a trained pharmacist and finished his first MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai post which he worked for 5 years in Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. At Glenmark, he was part of the Global Corporate Strategy group and was quickly promoted to be EA to the Chairman. This role took him to Brazil, Mexico, and USA for strategic projects across healthcare segments.

Post Glenmark, Prabhdeep did his MBA from INSEAD, France; and graduated with an offer to join Boston Consulting Group in Brazil. However, the call for entrepreneurship brought him to Hyderabad where he co-founded StanPlus with two of his INSEAD batchmates.

Prabhdeep’s colleagues appreciate him for his leadership, analytical problem solving, and his calmness during chaos.

He is part of Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2018, and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35 under 35 list for 2018. He was selected by the Yunus Foundation to be part of the Impact Accelerator in 2017.

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Rupam Das is the Founder and CEO at Acculi Labs. Acculi Labs (Accurate Life Intelligence) brings down complex pathology tests to the pocket of clinicians and patients by replacing complexity with the help of mathematics and algorithms.

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Kumar Sankaran is the Chief Executive Office of Leucine Rich Bio. He is a business leader with Healthcare Research and Delivery experience. In his current rolehe is spearheading the growth and innovation in the Microbiome domain for the Asian market. He is passionate about driving the paradigm shift from “sick care” to “health care”. 

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Dr DB Bhaaskara is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Roerich Healthcare Pvt Ltd India. Roerich Healthcare (a B2B Healthcare group) has World Wide Business Connections, is a Multi nation company founded in 2008 and acts as international sales department for several pharmaceutical companies. Their goal is to expand the horizons of our partners by introducing them to strategic and successful distributors.

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Life delivered Dr. Subhasish Sircar a jolt, prompting him to start work in preventive healthcare. A seemingly healthy close friend, who participated in health checks regularly, died of cardiovascular complications at just 32! Thus Health Vectors was born, dedicated to making the world a healthier place – one individual at a time.

Today Health Vectors has become a full-fledged digital product company in the personal health analytics space. Health Vectors is constantly building a best in class personal health analytics AI engine. The outputs of the engine, whether Smart Health Reports, Business Insights, or Smart Diet Planner, are being consumed at scale by businesses (hospitals, diagnostic labs, insurance companies) as a B2B2C offering.

Prior to Health Vectors, Subhasish held leadership positions with organizations like GE, Alcoa, NASA. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and an MBA from Wharton Business School. He also holds 20+ international patents in various verticals.

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Dr Santanu Chattopadhyay is an alumnus of INSEAD, Fontainebleau (2003) and Royal College of Physicians of London (1997) and holds a Master’s Degree in Internal Medicine from PGIMER, Chandigarh (1995). His career spans over two and half decades, spent in clinical medicine, healthcare start-ups, hospital administration and pharmaceuticals in India and abroad. He currently leads the hospital and provider businesses and artificial intelligence projects in 1mg.

During his tenure in the National Health Service (NHS), UK, Santanu worked as a Registrar at Barts & the London Medical School, as a Lecturer in Medicine at Queen Mary’s College and later as the Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of Leicester. After returning to India he founded NationWide, a award winning VC- funded chain of Primary care clinics. He was also an investor and founding chairman of Ovum hospitals, a chain of mother and child hospitals. In his last assignment he led two well-known hospitals of Kolkata (CMRI and BM Birla) as COO and Group Medical Director for CK Birla Hospitals.

Santanu has been listed as one of the top-25 Healthcare Influencers in India by Healthcare Executive, a well-known Indian healthcare industry publication in their January 2015 edition. He is passionate about application of technology for more affordable and accessible healthcare.

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Rashie Jain is the Co-Founder & CEO at Onco.com. Onco.com provides cancer treatment services for breast cancer, lung cancer, brain tumor, prostate cancer and other cancer types from expert cancer specialists. Onco.com We are building a virtual care platform for cancer patients.

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Vivek Rajagopal heads the Advanced Analytics & AI vertical at Narayana Health (NH). He carries an experience of 11 years pioneering data analytics, technology and innovation. He has been associated with NH for the last 8 years.

Vivek joined NH as VP-Strategy & Planning, working with the Group CEO to spearhead NH’s acquisitions and operational takeovers for close to 4 years. He put in place, structured financial analysis frameworks, valuation models for planning, evaluating and executing strategic expansions. He was pivotal in NH rapidly expanding its footprint during this period, with 2 major acquisitions adding close to 600 beds to consolidate its position in Eastern India and launching its first 250-bed hospital in Northern India.

Vivek, then undertook extensive efforts to create a separate vertical for Business Analytics. He single-handedly conceived, designed and developed the first version of the group’s real-time, fully automated, Business Intelligence system. Over the last 4 years, the vertical he created, has grown into a comprehensive advanced data analytics vertical covering Business Analytics, Clinical Analytics & AI. All the systems under his leadership have been completely developed in-house with a highly driven team of analysts, developers and statisticians. The analytics platform lies at the core of NH’s data-driven decision making and has resulted in significant monetary savings in addition to major improvements in processes across the group.

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Managing Director for boutique economic consulting firm EPG, specialising in economic analysis, strategic communications and market entry assistance with India, with offices in London, Bangalore and East Africa.

He was additionally, until August 2017, UK Director for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the premier and largest industry body in India. He is also the co-founder of a tech start-up in the CSR space. Previously he worked in Economic Consulting at FTI Consulting and Deloitte in London and Abu Dhabi, with a focus on public policy and arbitration. He was Chairman for a not-for-profit membership organisation with several thousand members for three years.

He studied Economics at Warwick University, where he was awarded the Prize for Excellence, and LMU University of Munich. His dissertation won a prize at an international economics conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published academic research on behavioural economics and social impact and is a regular commentator on public policy and India across print, TV and online media, featured on BBC News, CBC, CNBC, CNN, NDTV, South China Morning Post and Huffington Post.

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Neeraj Lal has more than 17 Years experience in Healthcare Management. He has studied Masters of Hospital Administration( MHA) from TISS Mumbai. Specialist in Healthcare Operations Excellence, P & L, Business Development, Strategy & Quality. Approved as a Surveyor for ISQua’s International Accreditation Programme ( IAP). Have held senior positions in Indian Hospitals for a number of years. Certified Internal auditor for NABH, NABL and ISO 9001. Guest faculty with many Indian Universities and Business schools for teaching programs in Hospital Administration & healthcare quality.

He is the member of Regional Gujarat Chapter of Academy of Hospital Administration & QCI New Delhi, Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) Ahmedabad, Academy of Hospital Administration (AHA) Noida and Asian Society for Quality in Healthcare.

He was the validation panel member for Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions(CBAHI) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along with Dr Lena Low, Executive Director Corporate & Surveyor Workforce, The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards too.

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