OUR Founders

Dr KR Balakrishnan is the Director of the Institute of heart and Lung Transplant at MGM Hospital. He holds a record for the highest number of heart transplants in the country and has performed the first LVAD and HVAD pump transplant in India. He is also a professor at IIT Madras, Medical Science Department.

Mr Purrshottam Bhaggeria is Managing Director at Filatex India Limited and Honorary Consul of the Republic of Moldova.

Stuti Bhageria is graduated from CMU Pitsburg and ISB Hyderabad. She currently serves as the SVP of Corporate Strategy at Filatex India Limited, a leading manufacturer of polyester yarn in India. 

Shiv is a biomedical scientist  graduated from IIT Madras and NTU Singapore. He has professional experience in the semiconductor industry, and expertise in biomedical design, fabrication, system integration and program management.

Dr Shahid A. Merchant has 35 years of experience in the field of Interventional Cardiology. Founder member at Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai. He is rewarded as world's top renowned doctors in 143 countries by Cleveland Clinic health research USA.

DR Sastry has 34 years of experience in practicing cardiology and presently working as Chairman, Cardiac Sciences at Renova Century Hospital. He is a principal investigator for total 20 clinical trials involving PH and other cardio vascular diseases.

Dr Jai Raman, is an academic cardiothoracic surgeon, with over 28 years of clinical experience in Australia, India and North America. He is professor of surgery at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, James Cook University (all in Australia) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has over 335 research publications, 3 textbooks as co-editor. His H-Index is 53. 

Dr Prasad Patnaik is a Professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics, at IIT Madras. He specialises in Fluid-structure interaction and arterial wall coupling with the dynamics of blood flow in the cardio-vascular flows and cerebral circulation.