Dr. Sunita Maheshwari

Chief Dreamer & Loop Closer

Dr. Sunita Maheshwari, a Yale Medical School alumnus, was named a Trailblazing Indian Cardiac Leader at the ET Indian Cardiac Care Innovation Summit 2024. She was also recognized as one of Businessworld’s 20 Most Influential Women in Healthcare (2022), received the Outlook Business WOW (Woman of Worth) Award in 2019, and won the ‘Amazing Indian’ Award by Times Now in 2014. A parallel healthcare entrepreneur, she is the Chief Dreamer and Co-Founder of The Telerad Group.

Dr. Maheshwari is a US Board-certified Pediatric Cardiologist who completed her MBBS at Osmania Medical College, followed by post-graduate training at AIIMS, Delhi, and Yale University in the US. Among her many accolades, she received the ‘Young Clinician Award’ from the American Heart Association and the ‘Best Teacher Award’ at Yale University.

With over 200 academic presentations and publications, she runs an e-teaching program for pediatric cardiology postgraduates and is an inspirational speaker, having delivered over 200 lectures, including multiple TEDx talks.

She was recognized as one of the Top 20 Women Achievers in Medicine in India and serves as a Mentor in Residence for the Sustainable Health Initiative of the Yale Institute for Global Health, where she and her husband established the Kalyanpur-Maheshwari Endowment for Global Health Innovation.

She is currently the President of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India and serves on the boards of HDFC Bank and GSK Pharma India, where she chairs their CSR Committees.