Abhi Vase is a Stanford alum who is passionate about improving health outcomes in India, Africa and South America. Abhi has worked for St. Jude Medical, been an evaluator for the Worldbank, and founded two ventures aimed at improving global health. While he was at Stanford, he ran the Social E-challenge and has also participated in the MIT100K competition. Abhi wants to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in India to think about solving major healthcare problems and meeting unmet medical needs.
Manager in Strategic marketing at St. Jude Medical, Jnyan is responsible for products with global annual sales of USD 300 million. Jnyan joined the R&D team at St. Jude Medical in 2003 where he has lead a team to develop cardiac pacing leads and delivery systems for Heart Failure patients. Jnyan has a Masters degree from Stanford University. While at Stanford he worked at a cardiac catheterization start-up, which made products for the billion-dollar coronary artery disease market. Jnyan has participated and won in several medical device competitions. Jnyan lives and breathes medical devices and yearns to improve lives of people.
Rajan Prakash, a Stanford BME alum, is a Medical Research Scientist working with Medtronic, Inc. on novel Heart Failure therapies. Currently, he is devising a "Heart Failure Patient Decompensation Prediction System", which encompasses several technologies to predict a patients deterioration/hospitalization several weeks in advance using implanted sensors that communicate wirelessly to a network. To-date he holds over 15 patents (pending) in the medical device arena. Rajan also works in an advisory role to senior executives on strategic market development in emerging markets
Ravi Pamnani is an R&D Engineer at Boston Scientific Cardiac Surgery (formerly Guidant). Prior to that he received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Ravi has also interned in Bangalore at Biocon, Ltd., as a Stanford Asia Technology Fellow. His interests include medical technology, sustainability, music, and the great outdoors.
Rohit Girotra is a Product Development Engineer at Boston Scientific - Cardiac Surgery Division working on new product development of Endoscopic Vein Harvesting and Off Pump (Beating Heart) Cardiac Surgery Devices. Rohit holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune and have completed my Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University with a focus on Mechatronics and Controls.
Suhas Krishna graduated from Stanford University with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Device Design. Interests lie in Product innovation and development based on strong engineering principles and biological understanding. Suhas has worked closely in the field of spinal mechanics, otolaryngology, medical imaging and neurosurgery.
Apratim Dixit is a design engineer for St Jude Medical where he works on designing implantable sensors and next generation cardiac devices. Apratim graduated from Stanford University with an MS in Mechanical Engineering. He has experience with designing a variety of medical devices, from cardiac to obesity.
Ashish Mitra graduated from Stanford University with a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. At Stanford, he discovered his passion for Medical Device Engineering and joined the Medtronic Vascular R&D to pursue the same. At Medtronic, development of new aortic and peripheral vascular stent technologies has been his forte and currently he is spearheading the development of a novel Embolic Protection Device, one of his recent inventions. Ashish has the honors of the Lincoln Design Award and the NCIIA Research Award to his name.
Bhumi Shahcurrently works in the medical device industry as an embedded software engineer. She received her BSE and MSE degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Bhumi has also worked as a software developer for Lockheed but now is happy that she spends her time developing software for healthcare rather than defense applications.
Shimul Sengupta is currently pursuing his MBA at the Wharton School of Business. Prior to that he worked for St. Jude Medical in both device design and quality. Shimul graduated from Stanford with an MS in Mechanical Engineering and did research in cochlear implants during his two years there.
Raja Chatterjee is an engineer with St Jude Medical where he leads the approval of implantable cardiac devices and leads. Prior to his time at St Jude, Raja worked in the radiology department at Stanford University where he designed several enhancements to imaging equipment and created unique IP in the space. Raja holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University
Saratchandra Aduru is an engineer who works on developing IT solutions for healthcare facilities and for clinical trials. He obtained a MS in Engineering from Stanford and a BE from JNTU, Hyderabad
Sharath Somayaji is a Stanford alum and product design engineer who has worked for Applied Materials and for St. Jude Medical developing the next generation heart failure products. Sharath has worked on a variety of technologies ranging from bone mineralization implants to robotics and sensing.
Pankaj Sunkeri is a hardware engineer with St. Jude Medical. Pankaj designs implantable cardiac defibrillators and has a strong background in electromechanical engineering. He has worked on neural devices and done research on microfluidics during his MS from Stanford University