#The Physician# Who Followed the Evidence All the Way to Technology
Sid’s career did not begin in technology. It began at the bedside.
He completed his MBBS at Vikram University between 2001 and 2007, then practiced clinical medicine in India, including cardiac care at Max Healthcare, hospital administration and direct patient care at Muskan Hospital, and an RCT on diabetes management at AIIMS.
That time in direct care was not a detour. It built the clinical lens he would eventually bring to every outcomes dataset, every study design, and every health technology decision.
In 2009, he made a deliberate pivot. He moved to the United States and enrolled in the Master of Public Health Program at the University of Minnesota, focusing on public health administration and policy.
That was followed by a DrPH in Outcomes Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, completed in 2017.
The trajectory was intentional: from treating individual patients to understanding what happens to populations, and why.
What came next was 15 years of applied outcomes research at some of the most credible institutions in US health research.
At CHOP, he spent 6 years as a Scientist, working on Alzheimer’s and dementia in Medicare claims populations, multimorbidity in hospitalized older adults, and preterm birth cost-effectiveness.
At Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute, he spent 4 years as a Senior Research Fellow, deepening his work in health economics and cost-effectiveness analysis.
At Yale New Haven Health, he spent nearly 2 years as a Health Outcomes Researcher, working at the intersection of clinical systems and research.
That is what Sid brings to Mindbowser. When a healthcare organization needs to understand whether a clinical AI tool is actually improving outcomes, or whether a care program is cost-effective, Sid brings a lens built from primary research, not vendor white papers.