Vikram Sheel Kumar

Vikram Sheel Kumar is an American engineer, doctor, and entrepreneur.

Early life and education

Vikram Kumar was born in the United States to an Indian-American family. His father was a neurosurgeon. As a child, the family returned to India, where Kumar attended the Modern School in New Delhi. After graduation, he studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology.

In 1996, Kumar returned to the United States, and received a BS in operations research from Columbia University in 1999. He then studied medicine at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, which was supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

Career

In 2002, Kumar co-founded Dimagi, a for-profit software company which develops open-source software technology for doctors in impoverished areas. Kumar currently serves as the company's Chief Medical Officer (CMO). He also co-founded Cogito Health Inc, a startup which uses a mobile-phone based voice analysis system to determine the mental health patterns of patients, and Ozorie, which manufactures pain relief, rapid heal, and hair revival products.

In 2007, Kumar completed a residency as a clinical pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He then returned to India to help his ailing father, who owned Doctor Kares Hospital, a super-specialty hospital in New Delhi, manage his business. While in India, Kumar also founded another startup. After his father's death, he returned to Boston to better manage Dimagi.

In 2004, Technology Review named him one of the world's top 100 innovators under 35 in biotechnology and medicine, and awarded him the "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award. In 2005, he received the Ten Outstanding Young Americans (TOYA) award.

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