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Ashish Kothari, Current Fellow
- Year
- 2009-2010
- From
- India
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Location
- India
- Degree
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2011 MBA, Sloan Fellow and SM, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
“[Like] German lenses and Swiss watches, I envisage Indian medical devices and implants as the benchmark for the world.”
Ashish intends to develop high-quality medical services in India, endeavoring to make India a net exporter both of health services (through medical tourism) and of medical devices and implants (through hi-tech, low-cost manufacturing). Ashish’s venture will hinge on building multiple centers for excellence in joint replacement across the country and will be made cost-effective through centralizing manufacturing and distribution of medical devices and implants. Cost savings brought about by these efficiencies will be used to fund further education and research. Ashish has served as a lecturer in orthopedics and a consultant orthopedic and joint replacement surgeon for five years and in a wide range of hospital contexts, including government, teaching, corporate, and not-for-profit hospitals in inner-city slums. In addition, Ashish worked for a year as Medical Officer at a Primary Health Center in the rural interiors of Maharashtra state, India, where he led a staff of 25 employees and was responsible for the health of 150,000 people. As an entrepreneur, Ashish has successfully developed his own private practice and established and run the joint replacement services at a major multi-specialty charitable hospital.
