Raj Shah, MD, MBA, FACC

FOUNDER, President CEO & Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Raj Shah is a practicing cardiologist and entrepreneur based in Philadelphia. He is senior attending and Chief of Nuclear Cardiology at St. Mary Medical Center.  He is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Temple and Drexel University faculties. He is pioneer in the field of telemedicine and the creator of SmartCareDoc telemedicine system which was deployed at “The Clinic at Wal-Mart” in 2012-14: The first telemedicine clinic in retail store in America. He established TeleRetinopathy screening program at the Temple University Health System in 2016 and a teaching Teleclinic at the School of Nursing at Rutgers University.  He is also a Research Fellow at the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center at Rutgers University for the study of Pharmaceutical Management and Healthcare and lectures about Telemedicine. He is member of the Advisory Board of Kean University College of Business and Public Management and Global Business School.

 Dr. Shah is board certified in internal medicine, cardiology, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT angiography. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians. He received his medical degree with distinction from the M.S. University in Baroda, India, and graduate training in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shah received a Master of Business Administration with Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma honors in 1997.

Michael Cooper, PhD

CHAIRMAN

Dr. Cooper is Dean of Kean University, and is an accomplished entrepreneur, strategist, and champion for innovation in global education. He was the former Dean of the College of Business of Bryant University and the Rutgers Business School where one of his major contributions was developing a new Business School identity adding vision, differentiation, strategy and clarity of direction with the Rutgers Business School: “Business, Science & Technology”. Dr. Cooper’s efforts toward this new identity have significantly increased the communication and cross-networking of Business, Science and Technology.

Dr. Cooper was former Chairman of Patient Passport, a provider of electronic patient health records. Dr. Cooper has twenty-five years of leadership experience in senior officer positions he has held in international market research, marketing services, management consulting, technology companies and Universities. He was Chairman, President and CEO of Opinion Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCI) for ten years. At ORC he completed a management buyout, turned the company around – strategically, operationally and financially, repositioned it, took it through a successful public offering (IPO), and significantly grew the revenue and profit organically and through acquisition. Prior to President and CEO of ORC for ten years, he was President of Hay Research for Management and Senior Partner of The Hay Group for ten years.

Pankaj Khare

TECHNOLOGY PARTNER

Pankaj Khare (PK) joined as Technology Partner of TeleMed Ventures LLC. He is the architect and developer of the SmartCareDoc virtual Care System. Pankaj draws on diverse business experience in healthcare, industrial, and public services across the world spanned over 25 years. Pankaj’s expertise lies in managing complex business processes, bringing operations excellence, while managing across cultures and time zones. After his MIT Sloan Fellow’s education in 2008, Pankaj started Bliss Health with a single idea to bring unified patient-centric care to managing complex chronic patients across care-continuum. 

Acute care hospitals, physician practices, home care companies, and care management organizations deploy BlissCONNECT to manage, coordinate and deliver complex care via disease management programs, population management, and patient engagement programs driven through the platform. As a vertically-integrated, end-to-end platform, BlissCONNECT helps organizations meet their documentation, QA, billing, HR, scheduling needs. With over 8 years of development work, millions of lines of code, a global team in India and USA, BlissCONNECT now has thousands of users.

Mrugesh Patel, MD, PhD

DIRECTOR OF research

Dr. Patel provides oversight and leadership in implementing and measuring healthcare outcomes using evidence and guideline based medicine in Teleclinic solutions.

Dr. Patel is a practicing cardiologist and a member of Heartcare Associates, with special training in heart failure and interventional cardiology. He has served as the director of a cardiac catheterization laboratory, and as the President of HeartCare Associates in the past. Dr. Patel has extensive list of scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals in clinical and basic science research. He received BA degrees in Biology and Chemistry from Boston University: MD and PhD degrees from New York Medical College. He did his internal medicine residency at Columbia Presbyterian hospital, and general cardiology fellowship at Albert Einstein college of Medicine, New York; and Interventional Cardiology training at William Beaumont Hospital, MI.

Bindu Kansupada, MD, MBA

Director of Medical and REgulatory affairs

Dr. Kansupada is a member of the Advisory Health Board for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kansupada was a member of the board of directors for Patient Passport, a provider of electronic patient health records. Dr. Kansupada current serves as Active Leader of the American Medical Association. He is a Delegate, Bucks County Medical Society for the Pennsylvania Medical Society, is a member Advisory Council, Keystone Mercy Insurance Company, and Payers Committee, American College of Cardiology, Pennsylvania Chapter. Dr. is a member of the Advisory Health Board for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Kansupada is board certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine, and nuclear medicine. He served as the Medical Director of Cardiac Rehab at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA, and was on the faculty at Drexel University and instructor at Aria Hospital. He has been a speaker for Merck, Astra, Bristol Myers, Pfizer, Guidant, St. Jude, and Genentech.

Ameesh Shah

board member

Mr. Shah is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Guidepoint's Insights business unit. He helps lead a 50-person team that delivers topical and timely primary research and events across all sectors leveraging Guidepoint's 600,000+ network of global subject matter experts. Mr. Shah has deep experience working within the healthcare sector having spent over 17 years managing investments at firms including, Tjori Capital, Visium Asset Management, Tennenbaum Capital Partners and Ziff Brothers Investments. Mr. Shah started his career as an investment banker at Lazard where he helped advised leading healthcare companies on strategic alternatives, corporate financings and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Shah holds a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tom Pappas

advisory board member

Tom Pappas is the former CEO of United Healthcare of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pappas was previously the Managing Principal, Senior Vice President and Global Sales and Marketing Manager for Johnson & Higgins, a global professional services firm providing advice and solutions in the areas of risk, strategy and human capital. Mr. Pappas spent 12 years with Xerox Corporation where he was known as a trailblazer. He currently serves as a director at Haverford Trust.

Mr. Pappas is a graduate of La Salle University, and received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has held a variety of roles at the Union League of Philadelphia including Board Member, Vice President and President. For the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he has been a Member of the Board of Trustees, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chair of the 200th Anniversary Committee, and Chair of the Marketing Committee. For the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, Pappas has served as a Member of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Chairman of the Endowment Committee. He has received numerous honors including being named “Man of the Year” by both Holy Family College and by the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), and the recent dedication of the Thomas N. Pappas Business Center at the Union League of Philadelphia.

Michael Useem

advisory board member

Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on leadership and change, and he offers programs on leadership, teamwork, governance, and decision making for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also works on leadership development and governance with many companies and organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. He serves on several boards, including Friends of Women’s World Banking. He is the author of The Leader’s Checklist; The Leadership Moment; Investor Capitalism; andThe Go Point: When It’s Time to Decide. He is also co-author and co-editor of Learning from Catastrophes, and co-author of The India Way: How India’s Top Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management.

Paul Ratnaraj, MBA

advisory board member

Paul Ratnaraj provides Information Technology Innovation and Oversight to TMV. Paul Ratnaraj is also the CEO of Sprine Corporation, co-founder of Patient Passport and Director of Advanced Initiatives at Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a comprehensive business data research service from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul conceived and developed WRDS in 1993 and as the principal inventor was awarded a U.S. patent. WRDS also won the prestigious CIO Magazine’s 2003 Enterprise Value Award. Paul has won numerous innovation awards while working overseas for Sheraton Hotels, a subsidiary of ITT Corporation. He led the development of SPIKE, a student communications and knowledge environment at the Wharton School. At Wharton, he also led the development of OTIS, a system to simulate financial securities trading. Paul was instrumental in being the first to implement ‘lights out’ and remote computing operations in the non-profit world. As CIO at The Pew Charitable Trusts he developed Pew EZLink which enabled employees and grantees to manage grant making activities including work flow using the web. Paul attended Bangalore University in India, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in business administration. He holds a MBA from Idaho State University.

Padma Shri Dr. Ashok Gupta

advisory board member

Dr. Gupta is world-renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon practicing in Mumbai, India. He is senior consultant, plastic and reconstructive surgery At Bombay Hospital Inst. of Medical Sciences, Mumbai. He is past president of all India plastic surgeons. He is early adopter of technology in medical practice and founder of e-HEALING TOUCH TELEMEDICINE SOLUTIONS with the mission to deliver healthcare to rural India. He has been at forefront of voluntary community services and has been awarded "PADMA SHRI” by Hon’ble President of the Republic of India for Outstanding contributions in Community Services in Medicine Year 2009. He truly brings global reach for SmartCareDoc, Inc. His services are internationally recognized by:

  • "LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD” for Health & Philanthropy” for Outstanding Community Services at UNITED NATIONS USA, 2015, 

  • "QUEEN VICTORIA COMMEMORATION MEDAL AND AWARD” for Innovative Social Initiatives in CSR and Sustainability for outstanding community services in the field of Healthcare 2015, at Oxford. UK, 

  • “SHEIKH HAMDAN INTERNATIONAL AWARD” for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services by H. E. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, The Deputy Ruler of UAE, for outstanding humanitarian community services in the field of Medicine 2010 UAE, 

  • "GUSI PEACE PRIZE INTERNATIONAL” for Social Initiatives & outstanding community services in the field of Healthcare 2017 at Manila. Philippines. He has been a keynote speaker at United Nations headquarters in USA in 2017 and 2019 on the subjects of empowering women and children and atrocities against woman/finding woman’s public voice.

Ami Brown, PhD

advisory board member

Dr. Ami Shah Brown is Senior Vice President of Regulatory Strategies at Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since May 2011. In this capacity, she is responsible for oversight of domestic and international regulatory affairs for Inovio’s prophylactic vaccines and immunotherapies in the fields of infectious disease and oncology.  Formerly, she led operations, regulatory affairs, and quality assurance activities for the Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Vaccine Development division and served on the faculty of The George Washington University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine.   Dr. Brown’s diverse academic and professional background also includes training and community work in support of  various HIV vaccine trials at  The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s  Center for Immunization Research,  a fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Centers for HIV, STD, and TB prevention (NCHSTP) to develop measures for behavioral surveillance, and with the Emory Vaccines Center.  She received her PhD in International Health with a focus in vaccine development, application, and policy from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from The Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and a BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania.