Digital Health News Names a New Layer of Healthcare's Most Influential Minds to its Inaugural Leadership Council
A new layer of healthcare leadership. Built on credibility. Defined by substance.
Digital Health News has announced the formation of the DHN Leadership Council, a curated group of leaders influencing healthcare across systems and the global healthcare ecosystem.
The inaugural Council brings together twenty distinguished leaders whose careers collectively span national digital health policy, hospital operations, health informatics, MedTech, pharma, technology, and public health- integrated with global voices shaping healthcare at scale.
The leadership platform is created to enable grounded dialogue, cross-sector exchange, and ecosystem thinking at the highest level of healthcare leadership.
Meet the Leaders Shaping the Council
Dr. RS Sharma | Chief Advisor, Digital Health News; Ex-CEO, National Health Authority; Former Chairman, TRAI |
Dr. Uma Nambiar | CEO, IISc Medical School Foundation; Chairperson, DHIA (DHIndia Association) |
Dr. Feby Abraham | EVP & Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, Texas |
Cdr. Navneet Bali | Executive Director & Group CEO, Clearmedi Healthcare |
Mandar Kulkarni | National Security Officer – India & SEA, Microsoft |
Ben Patel | VP & CTO, University of Cincinnati Health, Ohio |
Dr. Sunil K. Khetarpal | Deputy Director General, AHPI (India) |
Sarang Deshpande | VP, Information Systems - Data & Analytics, Franciscan Health, Indiana |
J.P. Dwivedi | CIO, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre |
Joy Chakraborty | Chief Operating Officer, P.D. Hinduja Hospital |
Dr. Neal Patel | MD, MPH - Chief Information Officer, HealthIT, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN |
Narendra Singh | Program Manager - ABDM, National Health Authority |
Dr. Shuchin Bajaj | Founder Director, Ujala Cygnus Hospitals |
Sarvesh Singh | Director & CEO, Lifesciences and Pharma, Telangana |
Dr. Santosh Pandey | CEO, Tata Steel Medica Hospital (TSMH) |
Inderpal Kohli | Chief Technology Officer, HealthiX, New York |
Dr. Ravi Gaur | Chair, Medical Advisory Committee, Oncquest Laboratories Ltd, New Delhi & Founder DRG PATH Labs |
Sudeep Dey | CIO & CISO, Aster DM Healthcare, India |
Vivek Rajagopal | Group Chief Analytics & AI Officer, Narayana Health |
Dr. Sajan Nair | Group CEO, Zydus Hospitals |
What the Council Aims to Do
At its core, the Council exists to connect leaders who operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, policy, and execution. It will facilitate closed-door leadership dialogues and research programs to city meetups, panels, and expert contributions, the Council will be the connective tissue between ideas and impact across the global healthcare ecosystem.
Further, it aims to bridge India's healthcare leadership with global perspectives, particularly from the US, while supporting research, discourse, and ecosystem thinking that goes well beyond individual events or headlines.
Through the Leadership Council, each member represents decision-making authority, execution at scale, and perspective shaped through real-world leadership.
For DHN, the Council reinforces its position as a global-facing healthcare intelligence platform built on credibility and substance.
The DHN Leadership Council is open. Healthcare's next chapter is being written.
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