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Dr.Sheriff Sahadulla

Dr. Sheriff Sahadulla, the Group CEO of KIMS Healthcare Group, has very evolved perspectives on the healthcare industry – which apart from being forward-looking, are well-grounded too.One of the ideas he espouses is on the adoption of technology. While he insists it is important to be abreast of technology, and to take advantage of it in all the multifarious ways it can afford, the more important part is to the stay rooted to the mission and purpose of the hospital.Technologies are enablers.....

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Dr.Saravanan Lakshmanan

Fewer people have handled the task of entrepreneurship with greater verve and efficiency than Dr Sarvanan Lakmanan and Dr Mahalakshmi Sarvanan of the ARC group of fertility clinics and hospitals. ARC is a 15 year story of growth that started from one centre in Perambur and went on to become an international chain that it is today. It is fascinating script - and a recommended read for anyone who wishes to understand and learn the craft of successful entrepreneurship in modern times...

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Dr. Dileep Raman

In order to succeed, any innovation or bright idea has first to home in on a people. For that reason, McDonald's had to spice up its burgers before making its ways into India. Just so, when it was their turn to come from the US, Dr Dileep Raman and Dr Dhurv Joshi, knew India would most certainly need a plan B. Cloudphysician Healthcare is a group of highly trained ICU specialists reaching out through the Internet to assist doctors at work in their resource-constrained ICUs in far-flung locations in our country...

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Mr. Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Mr Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Delhi based Chief of Bureau and Senior Associate Editor of Frontline, English fortnightly published by The Hindu group of publications. A journalist with 36 years of experience in Print, Broadcast and Electronic media in various regional, national and international journalistic forums. Apart from The Hindu group of publications, he has been professionally associated with a number of media institutions....

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Dr. Vishal Rao

Dr. Vishal Rao is currently the Regional Director of Head Neck Surgical Oncology and Robotic Surgery; and Associate Dean, Research & Academics at Healthcare Global Cancer Centre in Bengaluru. He is a TED X speaker and has more than18 patents filed for his innovations on medical devices, drugs, techniques and theories. He is a member of the consultative group of Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India; and Member of High Powered Committee on Tobacco and Cancer Control...

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Prof.Dr.Ashok Thiakarajan

Ashok Thiakarajan comes to Med-E-Talks wearing several hats!. One he has been an administrator of some of biggest hospital chains in the country. Two, he is an acclaimed healthcare marketing professional. Three, he is the high-priest of healthcare technology, so to say!2020 he says will be a remarkable year for the industry. Many innovations, hitherto unknown, would be making an appearance, touching and transforming several critical aspects of hospital work.......

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Dr. Patta Radhakrishna

Even as you read, there is a growing queue of professionals waiting to be admitted to the Facebook group, Learning General Surgery - a group that Dr Patta Radhakrishna floated in 2014.Today, any doctor worth a name is already part of its 30,000-strong community. Besides those from India, doctors from 70 countries talk here on a regular basis.That such a group - structured the way it is - exists and runs on the Internet, is rare and intriguing. But in the story is also embedded deep learnings...

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Mr. Hemant Radhakrishnan

Hemant Radhakrishnan, the Director of Anvita India, has a take on why some people think technology is vagrant and disruptive. He believes it is a storyline that runs deep with people who are mostly late arrivers to the scene.The landscape changes rapidly once a relevant piece of technology is introduced to an industry. He points to Amazon as an example of how it transformed the retail businesses - albeit, for the good. The sufferers in the game, however, are those people who either decide...

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Mr. Shali Ittaman

We probably underestimate the scale of violence against doctors practicing in India. The Indian Medical Association says 75 per cent of doctors have been attacked at work.Last year, several government doctors across the country struck work demanding tighter security after a colleague was battered in a hospital’s emergency ward in Kolkata. His attackers were related to a patient who had died on his watch.Of course, the protests got nowhere! Nothing was done for their security, and the doctors returned...

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Mr. John Philip

Mr John Philip, the Chief Operating Officer at Anvita India, draws our attention to four aspects of PR - the topic on which he intends to speak at Med-E-Talks 2020. In the IT enabled world, he says, the focus has to shift from acquiring random digital viewership to obtaining desirable digital viewership. Therefore, while planning a PR campaign, it is important to: a) be clear on the objective of the campaign; and b) be able to ensure that people appointed to drive the campaign are in sync with the objective.....

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Dr. Sudhakar Reddy

Dr Sudhakar Reddy is a dentist who leans heavily on technology while at work. Patients visit him for routine dental care, but also for difficult procedures such as jawline mending, restructuring and correction.Unlike in the past when it was difficult to guarantee the outcome when a dentist set out on a procedure, today with advance modelling techniiques, both doctor and patient can know, more or less accurately, where they are headed.Technology also holds.......

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Prof.Dr .Chandrasekhar Menon

Dr Chandrasekhar is the Founder-Director of SERVITUDE He was the dean at KBS-Kalasalingam University.He took Superannuation from Manipal University ( Aug 2015) working as Director- Institute of Customer Experience Management based at Bangalore. Previously-Professor Johnsons School of Business Coimbatore after leaving as -Professor- Head of the EMBA Program in S.P.Jain Center of Management Knowledge........

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Ms. Aarti Dhar

Aarti Dhar is a leading independent journalist specializing in public health and senior media resource trainer consultant with UNICEF. During her 27 years of active journalism, she has explored all the major social sectors such as health, education, women, and the environment. After joining The Hindu, in 1990, she was assigned to almost all Ministries including External Affairs, Home Affairs and Railways in addition to covering all major political parties......

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Ms. Jisha Krishnan

As the Consulting Editor of Health Analytics Asia – a pioneering, collaborative platform for doctors, researchers, journalists, data scientists, and healthcare enthusiasts to come together and work on sustainable solutions – Jisha is passionate about telling healthcare stories that are powered by data, insight and humanity. While fake news threatens democracy, fake health news threatens countless, innocent lives. Misinformation, aided and abetted......

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Mr. T V Jayan

T V Jayan, currently Senior Deputy Editor with The Hindu Business Line, has 25+ years of experience across news agency, newspaper and magazine journalism. He belongs to the very first batch of people who got formal training in science journalism in the country in 1990 and writes mainly on Science, Agriculture, Environment and Health. He is very passionate about environmental, public health, developmental and social issues. In the past......

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Mr. Jijo Jacob

Jijo Jacob is Managing Editor at International Business Times. He has been a Journalist, editor and newsroom manager for twenty years and has worked for newspapers and news agencies in India and abroad. A specialist in online editorial strategy, web journalism training and website management, he built newsrooms during the early years of the digital media in India. He also writes on politics, economy, business and culture. Has helped......

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