Faculty
Dr. Sunil Shroff
President, Tamil Nadu Chapter TSI
Dr. Sunil Shroff is Senior Consultant – Urology & Transplantation, Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai
Telemedicine Courses – Head for Training for Telemedicine Society of India
Email : [email protected]
Notable Positions:
- President, Telemedicine Society of India, Tamil Nadu Chapter
- President Elect - Indian Society of Organ Transplantation
- Editorial Director - www.medindia.net - Top Health website from India
- Managing Trustee - MOHAN Foundation - 20 yr old NGO pioneered organ donation in India
- Editor - Indian Transplant Newsletter
- Past President Nephrology, Urology & Transplantation Society of SAARC countries
- Previously Prof and HOD Urology & Renal Transplantation, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Centre, Chennai (1995 to 2015)
- Member, Advisory Board of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN)
Publications & Research:
- Edited 5 books for on Transplant Law & Urology for Paramedical/Nursing Staff, Published 12 book chapters, 620 articles in peer reviewed
Journals, Newsletters, Newspapers, Magazines and on the Web and made 800 plus presentations - Original Research on the use of Holmium:YAG Laser in Urology - 1992-94 at the Institute of Urology, London
Notable Awards in Last 10 years:
- 2017 – Polestar Award in Healthcare for Healthcare
- 2017 – Best performing NGO in India in the field of organ donation by National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) at the 8th Indian Organ Donation Day
- 2017 – Best Performing NGO and Best Transplant Coordinator Award by Government of Tamil Nadu
- 2016 – Jindal Foundation Award in Healthcare-
- 2013 – TANKER Award - For Social work for establishing ‘Cadaver program in India' with cash prize
- 2011 – Best Teacher Award - Dr MGR Medical University
- 2009 – Recipient of Social Entrepreneur Award from TIE - for establishing ‘Cadaver program in India'
Colonel (Dr) Ashvini Goel (Retd.)
MBBS, MPhil (HHSM), MBA (HCA), DPM, DNACS, HDSE, DCS
- Member of a number of committees for development of eHealth and Telehealth activities in India. Member of National Task Force on Telemedicine Network Grid, National eHealth Authority and India Health Information Network constituted by Ministry of Health and Ministry of IT. Health Informatics Sectional Committee for BIS Standards.
- Founder Member of Telemedicine Society of India (TSI). Currently Vice President of National Executive Committee of Telemedicine Society of India. Convener and Secretary of TSI NCR Chapter. Organising Secretary of TELEMEDICON 2019, the 15th International Conference of Telemedicine Society of India.
- Past Secretary of National Executive Committee TSI and Vice President Rajasthan Chapter of TSI.
- Member International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH).
- Academy of Hospital Administration (AHA)
- Conceptualization and raising of Project Management Organisation Healthcare Information Services (PMO HIS), for comprehensive automation of Armed Forces Medical Services. Implementation of Networking Project of Army Hospital (Research & Referral). Implementation of Pilot Project for Telemedicine for Indian Army under aegis of ISRO, Deptt of Space. Implementation of project for Mobile Telemedicine in Combat Scenario.
- External Assessor for Quality Assurance of Healthcare Establishments: National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS), Min of Health & Family WelfarePresident, Telemedicine Society of India, Tamil Nadu Chapter
Dr. Lavanian Dorairaj
CEO, AmbuPod and HCitC
Dr. Lavanian Dorairaj is a 1974 batch Alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and studied for his MD in Aerospace medicine at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine at Bangalore. He is also a healthcare Informatician with 20 plus years of experience.
He has, in the past, served as the Deputy Director, Medical services (Indian Air Force), The Vice President, Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation of the Apollo Hospitals group, The Vice President, Software division, Axsys HealthTech Ltd, The Chairman of HL7 India and many such positions.
Dr. Dorairaj has been a member of multiple Governmental projects involving Healthcare applications and Healthcare standards for India. He was a member of the governmental group that wrote the earliest standards for Practice of Telemedicine in India, in 2004. Certified in HL7 and DICOM in 2004, he is a well read and renowned trainer wrt International and Indian standards in Healthcare Informatics and Telemedicine like HL7, DICOM, LOINC, ICD 10, SNOMED CT, HIPAA, GDPR, EHR Standards for India (2016), Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020, etc.
Dr. Dorairaj is presently the Director and CEO of LYNK AmbuPod Pvt Ltd (AmbuPod) and the decade old HCit Consultant (HCitC).
Mayank Agarwal
Founder, vCliniq
Mayank is a technology entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience. He has filed for patents and authored research papers in diverse technologies. He has built telemedicine platforms that have served many hundreds of thousands of remote consultations. He is the founder of vCliniq, an mobile phone based telemedicine solution for the doctors practice.
He is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business and Delhi College of Engineering (now Delhi Technological University)
Bagmisikha
Tech Lawyer and Legal Advisor, TSI
Bagmisikha Puhan is a technology lawyer and privacy practitioner. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Telemedicine Society of India and the Legal Advisor to the Society.
Scope – legal scope and applicability of the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines and necessary dos and don’ts.
Dr. (Gp Capt) Suchitra Mankar
Former Col.-in-Charge, AFMC Pune
Dr (Gp Capt) Suchitra Mankar is an alumnus of AFMC Pune, is a practicing doctor, recognized teacher, Preventive Care Specialist and a Healthcare Management Expert. She has 30 years of varied experience in the field of Healthcare.
Dr. Mankar joined AFMC Pune and was thereafter commissioned in the Armed Forces in 1982. She practiced as a doctor:
Anywhere – marshes; deserts;
Anytime – 24 hours;
Anything -snake bites, deliveries, suicide, mid-air collisions; blasts;
Anyone – seniors, juniors, troops, wives, labourers;
Any Language or education
She was the first lady Officer selected for the prestigious Higher Defence Management Course – awarded
a trophy by Shri Pranab Mukherjee.
Dr. Mankar was appointed as the Colonel in Charge of Administration – first air force officer ever- of AFMC-Pune. She then moved to Head Quarters in Delhi and set up medical capital procurement for the IAF.
Manick Rajendran
Founder & CEO, iMMi Life Healthcare
Manick Rajendran is a HealthTech Entrepreneur from Chennai. Having graduated as an Engineer with an MBA from IIM Bangalore in 1986, he has lived in the USA for several decades.
Serving on Wall Street as a VP at Deutsche Bank, he angel-invested in an EHR Software company and thus
began his transition to Health Street.
In the twenty years he has been in Healthcare, he has functioned in various roles as Consultant, CEO
of hospitals, Member of Policy Groups, Standards Professional and most notably as Co-Chairman of the Tiger Team that presented policy document and roadmap of the meaningful use of IT in Healthcare that was adopted by the Obama Administration.
Returning to India almost a decade ago, he continues to serve the Healthcare industry actively through his advocacy for Interoperability and TeleHealth through his Cardiology Advisory, Mental
Wellness and Virtual Tumour Board offerings to the patient community using networks of Specialists.
Dr. Gunda Srinivas
Clinical Lead, mFine
Dr. Gunda Srinivas, DCH, DNB(Paediatrics), PGDDN, FPEM MBBS- JJM Medical College, DCH- ICH & HC, Madras Medical College, DNB(Paediatrics) & FPEM- Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, PGDDN- Kerala University.
Dr. Gunda Srinivas is a Paediatric Emergency Specialist by training and very keen on the role of technology in healthcare and currently working as Clinical Lead with a Digital Healthcare startup mfine as & also a practicing paediatrician.
His work experience is close to 15 years having worked in ESI Medical college, Rainbow Children's Hospital and Manipal Hospital in Bangalore.
He is also a MedTech Innovator, having won the National award at a CAMTech Hackathon 2016 for innovating a medical device to assist ventilation of sick patients in places where there is a shortage of mechanical ventilators. He has also innovated a bedside Emergency Room kit, a standardized knowledge resource kit which can be used in emergency rooms.
He is Co- editor of a textbook on Paediatric Emergencies- PEMC -Textbook on Paediatric Emergencies, 2nd Ed, authored by Dr. Indumathy Santhanam and published by Jaypee Publishers.
He has conducted the first ever Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Hackathon as part of the mainstream national medical conference NAPEM 2018(National Assembly on Paediatric Emergency Medicine) held at Bangalore
Dr. Sai Praveen Haranath
Founding Member, Apollo eAccess
Dr Sai Praveen Haranath is a pulmonary and critical care physician working at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India and is also a founding member and current medical director of the Apollo eAccess program which provides teleICU services around India.
He graduated from Madras Medical College and then went to the US. Over 15 years in America he specialized in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is American Board Certified in these fields. He also obtained a Masters in Public Health degree from UConn.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and active on several of their committees and is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council of Global Governors of the ACCP . He is a member of their Board of Regents and Chest Foundation Board of Trustees.
He returned to India in 2011 to pursue his lifelong desire to raise the standard of Indian and global healthcare through the ethical practice of excellent medicine. He has been interested in managing tobacco and smoking addiction for several years and was also selected to attend the Johns Hopkins Global Tobacco Leadership Program in 2016. Innovation and creation of value in healthcare technology is a daily mission and he currently mentors several healthcare startups. Dr Sai Praveen Haranath is a committed and passionate champion for the practical delivery of ethical healthcare.
Dr. Ravi Modali
An alumnus of the prestigious KEM Hospital, Mumbai; BITS, Pilani; Bioinformatics Institute of India, Dr Ravikumar Modali practices Lifestyle Medicine using digital health & telemedicine.
He is passionate about Group Medical Analytics, designing proactive action plans for timely treatment, reverse sufferings & risks from preventable diseases.
Dr. Ravi has contributed to several first-of-a-kind foundational initiatives like EMRI's 108 medical emergency response system, Medical networking for Health insurance, Social health schemes & Corporate health & wellness programs.
He has written 2 chapters in the first academic book on Health Insurance for Insurance Institute of India & also worked for national think tank for healthcare industry at FICCI, New Delhi.
Dr Ravi enjoys playing badminton as also having fun at the beach.