Background
Over 15 years across medicine, sport, education, and operations — a few things that have shaped how I think and how I work.
Before medicine, sport was everything. I spent fifteen years competing in modern pentathlon — a discipline that combines fencing, swimming, equestrian, shooting, and running into a single gruelling competition format. Fencing was my primary discipline and my greatest strength.
I competed at the national level in India, earning a national silver medal. What sport taught me — and what no classroom has ever replicated — is how to perform when it matters. You train for months so that in the moment, you do not hesitate. That instinct has followed me into every operating room, every committee meeting, and every project I have taken on since.
I studied medicine at Dayanand Medical College and completed my residency in Transfusion Medicine — a specialty that sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, laboratory science, and hospital operations. Early on I was drawn to research. I completed 7 research projects during medical school and residency, won a Young Scientist Award at a national conference in 2010, received two ICMR scholarships, and earned a Gold Medal for a poster presentation at an international conference in 2013.
By the time I finished my MD, I had 14 peer-reviewed publications and had contributed as Assistant Editor to Transfusion Update — an ISBT publication — and to chapters in the Association of Physicians of India Medicine Update series.
While still in clinical training, I was invited to author, design, and review approximately 500 questions for the USMLERx First Aid Step 2 CK Qbank — contributing to the most widely used board examination ecosystem in the world. First Aid has been the gold standard USMLE reference for decades. USMLERx was built to give it a dedicated question bank.
Every question I wrote was designed to reflect real board exam style and test higher-order clinical reasoning, not just recall. Knowing that those questions would shape how thousands of medical students prepare for residency was not something I took lightly.
One of the most formative experiences of my career was building a blood bank from the ground up. As Managing Director at Vardhman Mahaveer Blood Bank, I was responsible for every aspect of the operation — establishing policies and procedures, hiring and training a team, designing workflows, and overseeing the finances of a functioning clinical service.
Nobody handed me a template. You figure it out, or it does not work. That experience changed how I think about institutions — and about what sustainable operations actually require.
As Production Editor for the NEJM Healer application, I reviewed, edited, and quality-controlled clinical case content for a platform used by medical schools and residency programmes globally. Healer's premise is simple: teach physicians how to think, not just what to know. It trains clinical reasoning through simulated patient cases — the kind of thinking that determines outcomes in real practice.
Both the USMLERx and NEJM roles reinforced something I already believed: good education changes how people make decisions, not just what they know.
Joining UIHC as Transfusion Safety Officer was a deliberate move toward operational leadership. Within six months I was chairing the hospital-wide Transfusion Working Group — leading interdisciplinary teams across surgery, anaesthesiology, paediatrics, nursing, and perioperative services. Over four years, I led quality improvement initiatives, onboarded two newly integrated hospitals, and delivered measurable results including an 84% reduction in same-day perioperative blood testing — recognised with First Prize at the UI Quality Symposium 2022.
In parallel, I enrolled in the MBA programme at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business — Healthcare Management specialisation, expected October 2026. Not for the credential. To close the gaps. Finance, strategy, organisational leadership — the tools that turn a good operator into an effective executive.
HSB Advisory has been running quietly in the background for over seven years — consulting hospitals on blood management, process improvement, MTP and MSBOS implementation, staff education, and research support. It has always been personal work, done seriously.
This is what we do. And we do not stop until it is done.
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