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 Former
Director of Institute of Health Management and Research (IHMR), Banagaluru,
Dr Kishore Murthy (56) has now joined Astron Healthcare Consultancy
Pvt Ltd as its Regional Director. He has stepped down from IHMR after
three years with it, having built the institute in a span of two years
with land purchase, new building construction, and also getting it AICTE
recognised.
He has joined Astron as an associate with Dr YP
Bhatia, Founder of Astron, to look after and build up Astron's consultancy
operations in south India and offer a one-stop state-of-the-art solution
in hospital and health management consultancy and expand it to rest of
the country. "Through my consultancy at Astron as an NABH and NABL
expert, I will continue to see that hospitals, both Government and private,
get assistance for accreditation and also offer consultancy services in
planning of futuristic hospitals," he entthuses.
After starting his career in 1976 as a resident administrator
in hospitals like Moolchand and Holy Family, New Delhi, he shifted base
to the Silicon city to work with St Johns Medical College as a lecturer.
In his three decades of experience in healthcare, he has set up several
hospitals (such as Puttaparthy Super Speciality Hospital, Bangalore Hospital,
Hosmat), where he was involved from its conception, planning and commissioning.
In between, he also worked as the National Senior Manager in charge of
hospitals and healthcare with consultancy firm AF Ferguson & Co. He
was the COO of Healthcare Global, before he left it for IIHMR.
His involvement with research is deep rooted. He has
been active with research on community-based problems in healthcare with
focus on hospital and healthcare administration, especially evaluation
of hospitals. He has been associated with various projects of the World
Bank, UNDP, WHO and Government of Karnataka and Government of India as
a consultant.
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 Former
Centre Head of Fortis Hospitals (earlier Wockhardt), Kolkata, Dr Aninda
Chatterjee (40) has now joined as the COO of the Institute of Neuro
Sciences (INS), in the same city. INS is a not-for-profit hospital, and
a PPP between the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, the Government of West
Bengal and Neurosciences Foundation (founded by London-based neuro surgeon
Dr RP Sengupta). "My mission is to make the institute a world class
reference centre in the field of neurosciences," he says.
Armed with MBBS from VSS Medical College, Sambalpur
and MBA from Canadian School of Management, Toronto, and PG Diploma in
Hospital Management from Annamalai University, Chennai, PG Diploma in
TQM & ISO 9000 from National Institute of Labour Education & Management,
Chennai and PG Diploma in medical law from The Institute of Legal Education
in Medicine, Bangalore and eight years of clinical experience, Dr Chatterjee
had started out as a junior resident at Telco Hospital, Jamshedpur. Thereafter,
he shifted base to Kolkata to work in Mayfair Nursing Home & Evanowens
Medical Research Center. His other stints were at Calcutta Medical Research
Institute, Bata India Hospital, Bellevue Clinic, Kothari Medical Centre,
AMRI - Apollo Hospitals and Ruby General Hospital-all in Kolkata.
At Ruby General Hospital, where he worked from 2002 to
2005, he was not only entrusted with the responsibility of taking care
of medical administration but also given a key role in business strategy
and policy decisions, hardcore business development responsibility spread
over seven neighbouring states. In 2005, he joined BM Birla and took the
Hospital to the next level. On being assigned the role of NABH coordinator,
he guided BM Birla to become India's first NABH accredited hospital for
patient safety and quality care.
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 After
taking a long hiatus, healthcare supremo Brig Joe Curian (63) has
finally decided to join work in a hospital again. He has recently joined
Chennai's Madras Medical Mission as the CEO.
He holds a Master's Degree in Management and was
the Head of Faculty in the prestigious College of Defence Management teaching
Strategic Planning, Resource /Project Management and Operations, before
changing career, to become the CEO of Apollo Hospitals, Chennai in 1994.
He later moved on to take over Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi as
its first CEO, where he managed the hospital project and commissioning
. The hospital became cash - neutral (EBIDTA - positive) within two years.
He moved to the Hinduja Hospital,Mumbai, as the CEO, during 1998. This
hospital which was running in loss for over 13 years was turned around
within 1 1\2 years of take over and has not looked back since.
As the CEO of SL Raheja Hospital, he brought the
hospital out of 'red' within a short span. Later, he was with the new
Global Hospitals Group as the Group President.
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