IPSC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ICEGEN
Anand P. Surana is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ICEGEN. Surana brings a rare combination of attributes to the Group: Technical know-how, Innovative Business Models and far-reaching vision.
As CEO, he handles all corporate operational activities at ICEGEN and also oversees the Company's vertical market divisions: wireless solutions, RTLS, Revenue Cycle Management, Enterprise Solutions and Software Development.
Surana also has a solid 20-years applied Pervasive Computing experience from group implementation projects and has managed numerous implementations, consultancy and has gained an uncompromised expertise in designing processes and evaluating customer business cases globally.
He has been instrumental in leading the group's efforts to grow both organically and through strategic acquisition to achieve the vision of becoming the premier provider of Wireless and RTLS and Software Solutions & services targeting banking and healthcare fraternities.
Surana serves in a variety of private and public management positions. He holds a Master's of Business Administration and Finance from the CardiffBusinessSchool, University of Wales. U.K.
Job Titles:
- President and CEO of Stanford Health Care
David Entwistle is president and CEO of Stanford Health Care (SHC). He joined SHC in July 2016 with extensive executive experience at leading academic medical centers. Entwistle is a passionate advocate of precision health - tailoring a treatment to a patient's specific disease or condition as well as focusing on prevention to empower patients to take charge of their health before they become ill.
Before joining SHC, he served for nine years as CEO of the University of Utah Hospital & Clinics (UUHC), the only academic medical center in the Intermountain West region. While serving at UUHC, Entwistle received the Modern Healthcare "Up and Comers Award," for significant contributions in health care administration, management or policy.
He previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wis., from 2002-2007; and as vice president of professional services and joint venture operations at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif.
As a recognized health care thought leader, Entwistle serves on the boards of the American Hospital Association, the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and Vizient. He is the past chair of the Utah Hospital Association and was appointed by the governor of Utah to the state's Medicaid Task Force.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director and CEO of Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt
Dilip Jose is the Managing Director and CEO of Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Limited (Manipal Hospitals), an integrated healthcare services system and the second largest hospitals network in India, with 27 facilities and over 7600 beds.
He has more than 32 years of experience in various sectors and across functional areas. In Healthcare, where he has spent the last 18 years, his previous assignment was as Group CEO of CARE Hospitals, managing a network of tertiary care facilities. Prior to that, he was the Regional Director with Fortis Healthcare, heading their operations in South India. Preceding that, he held leadership positions in the areas of Medical and Para-Medical education as well as tertiary healthcare delivery.
Before his move to the Healthcare sector, Dilip spent about 12 years in various roles in Corporate Finance and Strategy.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director & CEO of Fortis Healthcare
Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi is the Managing Director & CEO of Fortis Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare providers in India with a network of 27 hospitals and over 400 diagnostics centres. A cardiac surgeon turned management leader, Dr Raghuvanshi has over 35 years of healthcare experience and numerous national and international healthcare awards under his belt.
Before joining Fortis, Dr Raghuvanshi spent over 18 years with Narayana Health, a leading healthcare chain operating over 28 hospitals, in various leadership roles including as its Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO), where he played an instrumental role in getting the company successfully listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). His past tenure includes stints with the Bombay Hospital, Apollo Hospitals, Vijaya Heart Foundation and Manipal Heart Foundation.
Dr Raghuvanshi has participated in various industry forums including Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and Healthcare Federation of India (NATHEALTH).
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer of NABH
Dr Atul Mohan Kochhar is the Chief Executive Officer of NABH and has been striving to take quality healthcare to the last man in the line.
He obtained his MBBS and MD (Dermatology) from the prestigious Delhi University. Over the years, he has held various Organizational positions, viz., the President, Secretary, Vice President, and Executive member of the IADVL -Delhi State branch. He is also the recipient of a plethora of state and national awards, including the prestigious Sardari Lal Memorial Award for the year 2015.
He has over 70 publications, 4 books and many chapters and multimedia to his credit. Quality, promotion of patient safety and taking the best healthcare practices to the poorest of the poor are his missions in life.
Job Titles:
- CEO of Quality & Accreditation Institute
Dr B.K. Rana is the CEO of Quality & Accreditation Institute (QAI) and former Director & CEO-In-charge of NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers), Quality Council of India.
He has many honours to his credit, including appointment as President of the Asian Society for Quality in Healthcare (ASQua), member of the Technical Committee of Ayurveda Training Accreditation Board, Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, and International Consultant and Expert for the WHO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, ISQua and UNFCCC.
He is also the Founding Member of the International Academy of Quality & Safety (IAQS), Scientific Advisory Board, and the International Alliance of Patients' Organisations (IAPO).
He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Diploma in German and a Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital and Health Management. He has steered the development of numerous accreditation standards globally and is credited for establishing India's healthcare accreditation system with international benchmarks through leading NABH and QAI standards.
Dr. Abhijat Sheth has post-graduation in Cardiothoracic Surgery from Sheth KM School of Postgraduate Medicine and Research, Ahmedabad. He extensively worked as an academician at various medical colleges in Ahmedabad. In 1998, he went to UK for further training in Cardiothoracic Surgery where he worked as a Senior House Officer and Registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle. He obtained his FRCS in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow in 2000. Since 2001 his main place of work has been in the Cardiothoracic Department of St George's Hospital NHS Trust in London where he has worked with the eminent cardiothoracic consultant Professor Brendan P Madden.
Dr. Sheth has a long and distinguished career in adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Research and academia initially in India and then extensively in the UK. He published more than 20 peer reviewed publications in prestigious journals e.g. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 40 abstract presentations and 40 conference presentations at the British Thoracic Society, World Congress of Bronchology, European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society. His major research and publications are in the fields of large airway intervention and Sildenafil therapy for patients with pulmonary hypertension. In his 10 years of academic career at St. George's Hospital, he has successfully guided a number of specialist registrars in developing competency with endobronchial intervention, pulmonary artery catheterisation and management of patients with secondary pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Sheth has undertaken his MD (Research) degree from London University under supervision of Professor Brendan P Madden and MBA (Health Executive) from Keele University, Manchester.
Job Titles:
- Vice President and Chief Patient Experience Officer for Cedars - Sinai Health System
Alan Dubovsky is the Vice President and Chief Patient Experience Officer for Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, California. In his role, Alan is responsible for the facilitation of all patient experience strategy and operations improvements in the inpatient, ambulatory, emergency, and ancillary areas for the health system. Alan is also responsible for Interpretation Services, providing language interpretation and translation needs to all medical center patients. In addition, Alan is responsible for Patient Advocacy, the department tasked with managing complaints and grievances. Alan joined Cedars-Sinai in November, 2016, with 15 years focused on healthcare patient experience improvement. Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Alan was with Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia, serving as the Director of Operations. In that role, Alan was responsible for patient experience and physician engagement, international health, and leadership and talent development. Alan completed his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Georgia and his Executive Master in Business Administration at Emory University.
She has over 3 decades of experience in various clinical and administrative positions that include the Indian Army, Private Sector Healthcare in India and a Strategic Health Authority in NHS, UK as Assistant Director of Quality.
In her current assignment, Dr Arati Verma is heading medical quality and patient safety across the Max Healthcare network of 14 Hospitals with over 2500 beds. The medical quality departments overall objectives are to support the establishment of the highest standards of Medical Excellence and Clinical Outcomes by the constituent Max hospitals and clinical departments. This includes accreditation, protocols, clinical indicators, patient safety programs, clinical dashboards, training and audits.
Dr Verma has a deep interest and passion for Healthcare Quality and Safety, and has acquired national and international experience and expertise. She is co-chairperson of the Technical Committee of the National Accreditation Board for Healthcare Organizations (NABH), India.a
Carsten Engel, joined the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) as CEO 1st May 2021. He has 18 years of experience in Quality Improvement, preceded by 19 years of clinical frontline service and clinical management. From 2006-2021 he worked with IKAS, Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in Health Care, since 2010 as Deputy Chief Executive. Here he was a leading member of the team that developed and implemented the Danish Healthcare Quality Programme, a series of accreditation projects that have performed over 6000 accreditations, reaching all providers in almost all sectors of Danish healthcare.
Carsten obtained a M.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Copenhagen 1977 and graduated as a physician 1984; he holds specialist recognition as an anaesthesiologist.
Dana Gelb Safran, Sc.D. is President & CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF). In addition to overseeing NQF's longstanding function as steward for our nation's portfolio of healthcare quality measures, Dr. Safran is leading the expansion of NQF's portfolio of products and services to advance healthcare quality, outcomes, equity and affordability.
Dr. Safran is an internationally recognized healthcare executive with a unique blend of accomplishment in business and academia. A central feature of her work has been combining the science of quality measurement with the art of its use to drive significant change in the quality, outcomes, and affordability of care. Dr. Safran's prior roles include serving for more than a decade as a senior executive at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), where she was a lead architect of the BCBSMA Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), which is widely credited with having catalyzed the value-based payment movement among public and private payers nationally. She was also a founding member of the executive team at Haven, a joint venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to achieve better health outcomes, care experiences, and costs of care through innovation in care delivery, benefit design and purchasing.
Dr. Safran is on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and has held a broad range of advisory roles in the public sector and internationally supporting efforts to improve health and healthcare through effective uses of performance measurement. From 2017-2023, she served as a Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). She holds a BA in Biology and Government from Wesleyan University and completed her post-graduate studies at the Harvard School of Public Health to earn an ScM and ScD in Health Policy and Management.
Dr Jitendra Singh, has taken over as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology as the Ministries were included under the charge of Office of the Prime Minister.
He is a physician known for his work on diabetes and endocrinology. He has been a professor, a consultant, clinical practitioner, author of eight books, and a newspaper columnist as also the ex-chairman for the National Scientific Committee Diabetes and the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India.
With an M.B.B.S. degree from Stanley Medical College, Chennai and M.D. from Government Medical College, Jammu, Dr Singh has authored several books including Monograms on Diabetes and World Book Fair best seller, "Diabetes Made Easy". He is also the author of chapters on diabetes in text books for Post Graduate Course (Medicine) and runs a syndicated weekly column "Tales of Travesty", popularly read and regularly published for three decades. He is Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space.
Dr.Prasad joined the Apollo Group of Hospitals and contributed to the launch of the first ever dedicated accident & emergency hospital in the country at Hyderabad.
Dr. Prasad is the first individual outside Europe to be honored with the Fellowship of College of
Emergency Medicine, UK and the first individual in India to be honored with a fellowship by the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. Dr.Prasad was elected as the Best Leader across Apollo Group of Hospitals in the year 2012.
He has continued his work at Apollo Hospitals in various roles ranging from Emergency Services, Director, Emergency Services, Vice President, Medical Services, Chief Executive Officer of Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad and Chief Executive Officer, Central Region. Dr Prasad was promoted as President - Hospitals Division in the year 2015 with a responsibility of overseeing 10000 beds across pan India.
Job Titles:
- Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group
- the Visionary Founder
Dr. Prathap C Reddy, the visionary Founder Chairman of Apollo Hospitals, is widely credited as being the architect of modern Indian healthcare. His vision of bringing world-class healthcare within the economic and geographic reach of millions of patients was the genesis of Apollo Hospitals.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited
- Member of the Indo - US CEOs Forum
Preetha Reddy had formally joined the Apollo Hospitals Group in 1989 and was pivotal in its emergence as Asia's foremost trusted integrated healthcare provider. She leads Apollo Hospitals' thrust on continuous quality improvement processes and had championed its endeavour to be accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the global gold standard for quality and patient safety. She is the Managing Trustee of the Apollo Hospitals Education Trust, a principal body leading the development of institutions of excellence in Nursing, Allied Health Sciences and Management, with an objective to build a talent pool of skilled health human resources in the country.
In addition to her responsibilities at the Apollo Group, Preetha Reddy works with industry bodies and the Government of India to advance policy decisions on healthcare issues. She was instrumental in the setting up of the NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers) a constituent board of the Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation programmes for healthcare organizations.
Preetha Reddy is a member of the Indo-US CEOs Forum and Indo-Malaysia CEOs Forum which are think-tanks created by the Hon'ble Prime Minister's Office to strengthen bilateral cooperation and trade. She has also been nominated Member of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. She is in the Leadership Team as Treasurer of NATHEALTH - Healthcare Federation of India, an industry body envisaged to raise ‘collective voice' and accelerate positive change in Indian healthcare.
Preetha Reddy is the immediate Past President of the All India Management Association (AIMA) and is a recipient of its Honorary Fellowship. She is on the Advisory Council of the Max Institute of Healthcare Management at ISB, Mohali and is also member of India Advisory Council of Schulich Business School. She is also a Governing Board Member of the Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur.
She is an Independent Director on the Minneapolis headquartered Medtronic Inc. Board of Directors.
Committed to service, Dr. Preetha Reddy has helmed several social projects like SACHi (Save A Child's Heart Initiative), that supports underprivileged children ailing with congenital heart diseases. She has also been a vital catalyst in facilitating prompt medical emergency responses to numerous calamities.
She was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award for distinguished service in the field of Social Science from the Loyola Forum for Historical Research. In September 2014, she was conferred with NHRDN ‘People CEO Awards - Women Leadership' by The National HRD Network. She was conferred the Lifestyle Icon Recognition Award at CEO India Awards 2015.
She holds a B.Sc. from Stella Maris College Chennai, and a Masters in Public Administration. She was conferred the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the Dr. MGR Medical University, Tamil Nadu in recognition of her outstanding work in the field of healthcare.
Job Titles:
- Member of the World Economic Forum
Dr. Sangita Reddy is a Global Healthcare Influencer, Healthcare Technocrat, Social Entrepreneur and Humanitarian. Passionately committed to transforming the healthcare system through technological advancements and accelerating positive transformation for effective healthcare service delivery. She has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by Macquarie University Australia, in recognition of her untiring efforts and resolute commitment to bring transformative changes in healthcare, development of Health IT and championing manifold initiatives both in India and abroad. She is an Honorary Consul of Brazil in Hyderabad, Appointed by Govt. of India.
Influencing Global Healthcare - As an influencing policymaker and reformist, she is actively engaged with governments and industry bodies on aspects of public health and policy development.
Dr. Sangita Reddy is a member of The World Economic Forum, Sr. Vice President & Entrepreneurship' In 2005-06 Dr Sangita Reddy was awarded the Top Woman Entrepreneur in the Information and Communication Technology Sector by Govt of Andhra Pradesh In 1998, Dr Sangita Reddy received the Young Manager of the Year Award from the Hyderabad Management Association
Ms. Kamineni is the Executive Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited and a member of its founding family. Apollo Hospitals is the pioneer of private healthcare in India and Asia's foremost integrated healthcare conglomerate.
She heads Apollo Pharmacy, India's largest pharmacy chain and is the founder and Chairperson on the Board of Apollo Munich Health Insurance, India's best specialized Health Insurance Company for 9 years, consecutively.
An active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Ms. Kamineni's appointment as its President in 2017-18 created history, as she was the first-ever woman to hold the position since its inception in 1895.
Ms. Shobana Kamineni has been a recipient of prestigious national awards for Entrepreneurship and Leadership. The Women Economic Forum conferred upon her the award of 'Businesswomen of the Decade' in recognition of her work in healthcare and empowerment of women. She was conferred an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Science by the prestigious Bryant University, USA, in recognition of her life's work in healthcare & pharmaceuticals and her leadership role in business expansion in India.
Job Titles:
- Director on the Board of Apollo Munich - Re Health Insurance Company Ltd
- Managing Director of the Apollo Group
- Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited
A member of the founding family, Suneeta Reddy joined the Apollo Hospitals Group
A member of the founding family, Suneeta Reddy joined the Apollo Hospitals Group in 1989. Spearheading the finance function, she was instrumental in taking the organization to the international equity markets through a successful GDR and subsequently bringing the First Foreign Direct Investment into Healthcare in India. It has been her deep domain knowledge and foresight that has guided Apollo's emergence as a formidable, financially sound hospital enterprise.
Suneeta Reddy is the Managing Director of the Apollo Group. Her financial acumen has been the key factor in the group's dramatic growth and profitability. Her insights have played an instrumental role in encouraging medical value travellers to Apollo Hospitals and to India at large. She led the Apollo Reach Hospitals model to fruition which was commended by World Bank as an innovation redefining both healthcare and healthcare design. Suneeta now steers the corporate strategy, corporate finance, funding and investments and will be leveraging M&As to achieve objectives of an accelerated pace of growth and in optimizing profitability.
Suneeta Reddy is a Director on the Board of Apollo Munich-Re Health Insurance Company Ltd and she also serves on the Board of several Apollo Hospitals' Group companies. Through her close involvement, effort and patience, she has guided these companies on a path of growth and profitability. She is also the Chairperson of Aircel Cellular Ltd.
A key influencer in the Indian healthcare industry, Ms. Reddy is widely recognized for her contributions and has held leadership positions including Co-Chairperson of Healthcare Sub Committee - Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and is a member in the National Committee on Healthcare. She is also a member of the Harvard Business School India Advisory Board (IAB).
Suneeta Reddy received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations, Economics and Marketing from Stella Maris College in Chennai. She holds a Diploma in Financial Management from the Institute of Financial Management and Research, Chennai and has completed the Owner / President Management Program at Harvard Business School (HBS), Boston, USA.
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics
- Group Medical Director of the Apollo Hospitals Group
Prof. Anupam Sibal joined Apollo Hospital, New Delhi as a Senior Consultant Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist in 1997. He established a pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, nutrition and endoscopy service at the Apollo Centre for Advanced Pediatric's, the wing dedicated to pediatrics at the Apollo Hospital Delhi in 1997. He helped set up the first successful liver transplant program in India in 1998. In 2012, 1200 solid organ transplants in children and adults (840 kidney and 360 liver) were performed. The Apollo Transplant Program thus became the first transplant program in the world to perform more than 1000 transplants in a year and Apollo Delhi the busiest transplant centre in the world by performing 813 transplants (269 liver, 544 kidney). In 2013, Apollo Delhi performed (283 liver, 669 kidney) and the Apollo transplant program performed (388 liver, 1053 kidney). Overall more than 1674 liver transplants have been performed till date.
In June 2005, he helped achieve the First International Accreditation of a hospital in India by Joint Commission International (JCI). Prof. Sibal served as the only Asian JCI Physician Surveyor from January 2008 to 2010. He currently is a member of the Regional Middle East International Advisory Board of JCI.
Prof. Sibal was appointed as the Group Medical Director of the Apollo Hospitals Group in 2005. Prof. Sibal was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in June 2009. In October 2009, he was appointed as the member of the Institute Body of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh.
Prof Sibal is on the Editorial Board of 3 Journals and has 85 publications. He has served on the Executive Council of the International Paediatric Transplant Association, The Asian Pan-Pacific Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and has lectured extensively in India and abroad.