AI in Healthcare

Venue: IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai

Date – 13th Feb 2019 (Wednesday), 3.00 PM to 5.00 PM
Focus Audience: Professionals with an interest in AI in Healthcare
TIME PROGRAM TOPICS SPEAKERS

3.00pm - 3.05 pm Welcome Address Ms Prathistha Jain

Community Manager, IITM HTIC
MedTech Incubator
Introductory Remarks Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
3.05 pm - 3.15 pm Director, HTIC
Session 1
How AI is Revolutionizing Healthcare & WHO
AI Initiatives Chairpersons
Arun Shroff – 15 mins Dr.Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
3.15 pm – 3.35PM Co-Convener for WHO/ITU’s Focus Group on AI Director, HTIC
for Health & Working Group Lead for AI for Mr.Muthu Singaram
Diabetic Retinopathy CEO, IITM HTIC MedTech Incubator
Followed by Expert Comments from Dr.Roy Santosham
Chairpersons Senior Radiologist, Sri Ramachandra
3.35 pm – 4.10 pm AI in Radiology Medical College Hospital
Dr. Rama Krishnan Mr. Sameer Mehta
Consultant Radiologist, Medall Vice Chairman, Dr.Mehta’s Hospitals
4.10 pm – 4.30 pm AI For Diabetic Retinopathy
Arun Shroff
Session 2
4:00pm-4:30pm Panel Discussion Dr.Ajit Mullasari,
Director,Cardiology
Can AI Make a Difference in Healthcare in India Madras Medical Mission Hospital,
Dr. Sunil Shroff (Moderator) Chennai
Senior Consultant Urologist & Kidney Transplant Dr. T. Senthil
Surgeon at Madras Medical Mission Hospital Ophthalmologist and founder & CEO,
Editorial Director – www.medindia.net Welcare Health Systems Pvt Ltd
Dr Jayaraj Joseph, CTO, HTIC (TBC)
Dr VR Muraleedharan, Chair
Professor, IITM (TBC)
4:30pm-4:45pm Question & Answers/ Discussion
4:45pm-4:55pm Concluding Remarks & Way Forward Mr.Muthu Singaram
CEO, IITM HTIC MedTech Incubator
4.55pm-5.00pm Vote of Thanks Ms Sumaiya Fathima
Program Manager, IITM HTIC
MedTech Incubator
5.00pm onwards Networking & Visit to HTIC Facility
Profile of Speakers
Arun Shroff
The founder/CEO, Arun Shroff is a serial tech entrepreneur, and invited AI expert and speaker at
the UN, WHO and other conferences. He is a Co-Convener for WHO/ITU’s Focus Group on AI for
Health & Working Group Lead for AI for Diabetic Retinopathy

Arun is co-founder and CTO at Medindia.net – India’s top health website, that is visited by
several million visitors each month. He is also Director of Technology & Innovation at STAR
Associates, NY, USA, an investment advisory services firm, with a focus on health,
pharmaceuticals, AI, Robotics, Space, Blockchain and Cybersecurity products and services.

Arun has a B.Tech from IIT Madras, an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and a M.S. in Computer
Science from Pennsylvania State University and certifications in AI, Machine Learning and deep
learning from Stanford and Coursera.

Dr.Tamilarasan Senthil , MBBS, DO, FICO

Dr. Senthil is an Ophthalmologist and founder and CEO of Welcare Health Systems Pvt Ltd, –
India’s largest tele-ophthalmology company with over 275 centers in 22 states in India. Welcare
is screening over hundreds of thousands of patients each month for eye diseases including
diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Welcare was ranked as one of the top 50 most innovative
startups in 2015. Welcare has signed up as an exclusive partner with Xtend.AI for our AI solution.

He is frequently invited to present at many Indian and International conferences including at Yale
and Duke University in USA. He was honored with the Humanitarian Volunteer of the Year award
at a healthcare convention held at Stanford University in 2007. In 2014, he was honored with a
Gold Medal for his outstanding service in Ophthalmology by the Tamil Nadu Governor, Shri K.
Rosiah.

Dr. Sunil Shroff, MBBS, MS, FRCS (London) and D.Urol (London)
Dr. Sunil Shroff is a Senior Consultant Urologist & Kidney Transplant Surgeon at Madras Medical
Mission Hospital, Chennai. He is the founder trustee of MOHAN Foundation – a renowned NGO
in the field of organ donation and widely regarded as a pioneer in adoption and growth of
deceased organ donation & transplantation programs in India. He is frequently invited as an
expert and guest speaker at conferences globally and is regularly featured in news and media
coverage for his views on the subject. He is also co-founder & Editorial Director
of Medindia.net – India’s leading health website. He has a keen interest in using technology to
improve patientcare and has conducted five national & International healthcare IT conferences.
He has over 60 publications in peer reviewed journals and published another 700 plus articles in
media. He is author of 4 books. 10 book chapters and has done 700 plus presentations.

Dr.Roy Santosham, MD ( Radiology)

Senior Radiologist, Sri Ramachandra Medical College Hospital and Co-founded Kornerstone
Devices Pvt Ltd. Specialization in CT Guided Interventions, Pain Management, Vertebroplasty,
Ultrasound Guided Intervention. Received Gold medal For Completion Of 20 Years of Service In
SRMC.

Sameer Mehta
Mr. Sameer Mehta is the Vice Chairman of Dr Mehta’s Hospitals (India’s Oldest Private Hospital)
and Director of the Atlas Family Office. Passionate around innovation and investing, Sam is the
co-founder of India Home Health Care, Brushtale Studios, Arya Play and participates in various
national healthcare committees. He serves on the boards of Proklean Technologies (chemicals),
IIT RTBI Incubator (rural technology incubation), Health Sensei (technology) and Dr. Mehta’s
Hospitals (healthcare). He is on the Executive Committee of the Chennai Angels and Consortium
of Healthcare Providers of India.

Muthu Singaram
Chief Executive Officer of IITM HTIC MedTech Incubator and Founder of Vibazone Pvt Ltd. He is a regular
speaker at many international Entrepreneurship conferences and a lead facilitator for innovation and
other workshops. Currently he is the innovation driver for several companies and Universities in Canada,
India and Malaysia. Also, the authored two books “Entrepreneurship: A Hand on Guide To Starting Your
Business” and “Greenfield – Suggested Standard operating procedures for Incubators”

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras and the Director
Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a joint initiative of IIT Madras and Department
of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology. Research interests lies in Medical
devices and diagnostics, biomedical instrumentation, affordable healthcare technologies,
healthcare delivery models for resource constrained settings . Won awards like the Indian
National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award, 2015 and IITM's Institute R&D
Award (Junior level), 2015

Dr.Rama Krishnan
Ramakrishnan RS, MD, DNB, is a Consultant Radiologist at MedALL Health Care Pvt. Limited and
Malar Fortis Hospitals. He received his degrees from Kilpauk Medical College and Sri
Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute. Dr. Krishnan completed a fellowship in
cardiac MRI at Sankt Gertrauden Krakenhaus (Berlin). His areas of interest are body imaging,
cardiac CT, and MRI.

Dr.Ajit Mullasari
Dr. Ajit Sankardas Mullasari, MBBS, MD, DM (Cardiology) currently holds the position of Director
of Cardiology at the Institute of Cardio-Vascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai,
India. His interests include Interventional Cardiology, Vascular Imaging, Clinical Research and
Research in Basic Cardiac Sciences. He has published 150 peer-reviewed papers and around 200
abstracts in peer reviewed journals. He has been the Primary Investigator in the last 5 years in 21
major National / International trials. He has served as a Member of the Task Force for Stem Cell
Research, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India. He has been the Chief Editor of the
Journal of the Institute of Cardio-Vascular Diseases and serve on the Editorial Board for
Interventional Cardiology in the Indian Heart Journal. On the social front, he is a founder trustee
for SANKALP, a school for autistic and learning disability children in Chennai catering to 250
children with these disabilities.