Executive Committee

Dr. Nandita Gupta is an experienced cardiologist and physician executive with over 20 years of progressive healthcare leadership experience across various settings, including ambulatory care, service lines, medical groups, and hospital systems. She currently serves as Chief Medical Officer at PeaceHealth, a not-for-profit 9-hospital Catholic health system serving communities across Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Her work has earned multiple honors, including recognition as Portland’s Top Cardiologist and the Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award from the Oregon Medical Association.

Dr. Gupta’s clinical interests include heart failure and cardiovascular disease in women. She has served as President of the American Heart Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington. She earned a medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College, finished her residency training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed a cardiology fellowship and an MBA in Healthcare at Oregon Health & Science University.

Outside of work, Dr. Gupta enjoys hiking, reading, traveling, and mentoring the next generation of healthcare leaders.

I am a proud MAMC alumnus. After imbibing the proverbial ‘ghaat ghaat ka paani’, with seemingly never-ending Pathology training at PGI-Chandigarh, UTSW-Dallas, Evanston Hospital, and University of Michigan, I have been delighted to call Minneapolis home where I have been in practice at the VAMC for first 7 years and at HealthPartners for the last 13. While primarily engaged in clinical service, I love interacting with residents and students, sharing life lessons learned from Pathology.

Outside of work, I enjoy running, hiking, biking, reading, writing, and music. I volunteer in the community as a regular platelet donor and with a local NGO serving educational needs in India. I have also morphed into those middle-aged ‘uncles’ ready to dish out advice at the drop of a hat. Case in point: my two guiding life principles include, ‘Live fully, and let live fully’ and ‘Tread the middle path-usually boring but frequently right’.

Indranil is a Professor of Anesthesiology & Neurosurgery at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas. After completing medical school and Anesthesiology residency at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, he went on to complete another Anesthesiology residency at UAMS. He is Chief of Neuroanesthesiology and is an internationally recognized expert in Awake Neurosurgery. Apart from academics, he loves singing, running, biking, tennis, photography and is a self-confessed foodie! His moto is “Do not kill yourself at work”.

Dr. Nidhi Gupta is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist, award-winning researcher, TEDx speaker, and a leading expert in digital wellness in Nashville, TN.

Dr. Nidhi Gupta completed her medical school at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, USA and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA. Upon graduating, she was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for 4 years. She is now the founder and CEO of her pediatric endocrinology practice, KAP Pediatric Endocrinology, which is rooted in patient education and personalized healthcare.

In 2019, driven by her personal and professional experiences, Dr. Gupta founded the Phreedom Foundation (Ungrip Devices. Grip Life), a non-profit dedicated to inspiring individuals reclaim their time and attention, unlocking the joys of life beyond screens.

Her upcoming book Calm the Noise (Why Adults Must Escape Digital Addiction to Save the Next Generation) promises to transform the understanding of digital wellness and inspire meaningful change.

Dr. Sivakumaran “Siv” Raman is a Healthcare Data/Analytics and Product leader with deep expertise and extensive experience in Healthcare Data Management, Data Science, Analytics, Healthcare AI, and Healthcare Product development.

He is currently the Chief Product & Analytics Officer of a Healthcare IT company.

He has held executive leadership roles at two different big-five payers, UnitedHealth Group/Optum and Elevance Health, and contributed to growth at several start ups in the Healthcare Software & Analytics fields.

Siv has a degree in Medicine from MAMC, Delhi University, India, and a Masters in Medical Informatics from the University of Minnesota.

He is the author of two books:

• Just Enough R, a book that teaches coding in the R programming language
• Just Enough Healthcare, a primer on the US healthcare system

Nikhil Goyal is the Senior Vice President for Accreditation at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, and practices Emergency Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Nikhil has been responsible for this website as well as spandan.com, and welcomes any feedback on how the sites could be improved.