Aswin Chandrakantan, MD, not too long ago joined Aidoc as President and Chief Business Officer, bringing with him a wealth of medical and management expertise. On this dialog, Aswin shares what impressed him to hitch Aidoc, key classes from his profession that form his method to management and his imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the corporate. He additionally offers private insights that mirror his dedication to enhancing affected person outcomes and supporting healthcare professionals globally.
What impressed you to hitch this group, and what excites you most about its mission?
Elad, (our CEO) flew to Dallas to satisfy me throughout our candidacy course of. Throughout one prolonged dialogue about ardour and objective, he gave me his typical wry smile and handed me his telephone, as if to say “right here’s the proof that we do wonderful issues.”
On the display screen, in plain black and white textual content, was a quote from a distinguished doctor.
“This affected person would’ve died final evening if it wasn’t for Aidoc. We’d have learn this scan with a pulmonary embolism hours too late.”
As a skilled clinician, I particularly sought a corporation pushed by the next objective: enhancing affected person outcomes and elevating the standard of care individuals obtain around the globe. Whereas many firms goal for this, few possess the expertise and infrastructure to actually make it a actuality. Aidoc is making it a actuality day by day. My skilled expertise, mixed with a deep ardour for enhancing the lives of each sufferers and clinicians, made Aidoc the best match for me.
Are you able to share a pivotal profession second that formed your management type?
Early in my profession, I had a senior shopper that had extraordinarily robust political opinions. Throughout an after hours occasion, he requested me to disrespect a photograph of the sitting United States President. I refused to take action, not due to any private affinity for that individual President, however as a result of I imagine within the significance of respecting the workplace itself. It got here with extraordinarily detrimental penalties for me and my consulting profession. I’ve zero remorse for my selection.
In enterprise, purchasers, offers and alternatives can get well with effort and time, however private integrity is fragile—as soon as compromised, it’s arduous to rebuild.
Swami Vivekananda captures this sentiment nicely:
“If the entire world stands towards you, sword in hand, would you continue to dare to do what you assume is true?”
What’s one thing about you that folks is likely to be stunned to study?
I examine Hinduism vociferously and apply lots of its rules to assist me face challenges. I exploit these teachings to construct robust groups and set excessive requirements for my very own conduct. With knowledge that spans over 10,000 years, from the Vedas to ithihasa, it guides me day by day.
What recommendation would you give to your youthful self beginning out within the healthcare trade?
As my spouse, Vidhya has taught me:
“Be constant. Be Variety. Be persistently variety. To everybody round you however particularly to your self.”
What’s your imaginative and prescient for the way forward for this firm, and the way do you see your function in driving that imaginative and prescient?
My imaginative and prescient for Aidoc is to revolutionize healthcare by considerably lowering the worldwide burden of illness—measured not simply in numbers, however in lives saved and improved.
I foresee that Aidoc’s options have the potential to scale back one billion Incapacity Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) yearly, remodeling the best way we diagnose, deal with and in the end forestall sickness.
My function is to understand this affect by driving schooling and adoption of our expertise—ensuring each hospital, clinician and most significantly each affected person advantages from the facility of our options and platform. We’re already redefining what’s doable in healthcare and I see we’re nicely on our means in the direction of this objective.
As you look again in your profession to date – what are you most happy with?
I used to be staffed on a mission to eradicate polio in Nigeria that concerned working with Invoice Gates and the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, that used new methods and digital expertise to drive coordination and efficient vaccination campaigns. After implementing these methods persistently for a few years, Nigeria was declared wild polio free in 2020. Whereas it took the dedication of 1000’s to attain this milestone, I’m proud to have performed my half in contributing to such a transformative world well being victory.