Our Team

  • Kiran Agarwal-Harding, MD, MPH

    FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

    Kiran is an orthopedic trauma surgeon at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Director of the Harvard Global Orthopaedics Collaborative.

  • Ravi Pamnani

    REGULATION & SAFETY

    Ravi is an engineer by training, with a passion for improving healthcare through medical device and biopharmaceutical innovation. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Intact Therapeutics.

  • Andrew Deagon

    VP ENGINEERING

    Andrew is an engineer and received his degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

  • Nikki Mukkala

    VP PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

    Nikki is a program manager and engineer with a passion for new product development, guiding hardware products from the initial concept to launch.

  • Kaveh Momenzadeh, MD

    VP RESEARCH & TESTING

    Kaveh is a physician-scientist and post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • Jerry Zhang

    VP STRATEGY

    Jerry Zhang is a Harvard MD/MBA student with a background in biomedical engineering and passion for reducing global health disparities through increasing access to safe medical devices.

  • Emily Powis

    VP EDUCATION

    Emily is a medical student at Harvard and earned a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California. 

  • Samhita Kadiyala

    VP CLINICAL RESEARCH

    Samhita is a medical student at Harvard Medical School and has a background in health economics and healthcare analytics.

  • Carlos Mercado

    VP DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

    Carlos is a Software Engineer with a passion for healthcare and developing innovative solutions to improve global health equity. He has worked at Google and earned his degree from SCU.

  • Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, MD, PhD

    VP DIGITAL MEDIA

    Soheil is a faculty member of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Lab (FARIL) at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Advisory Board

  • Edward K Rodriguez MD, PhD

    Dr. Rodriguez is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon and Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • George SM Dyer, MD

    Dr. Dyer is an Orthopaedic hand and upper extremity surgeon at the Brigham & Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at Harvard Medical School, and the former Director of the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program.

  • Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH

    Dr. Mukherjee is the Chief Medical Officer of the international medical charity founded by Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners In Health, and an Associate Professor and Director of Masters in Medical Science in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School.

  • Tarun Khanna

    Dr. Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School and co-founder of Aspire Institute.

  • David Mou, MD, MBA

    Dr. Mou is a psychiatrist, serial health tech entrepreneur, and Founder/CEO of Benchmark Health.

  • Ara Nazarian, PhD

    Dr. Nazarian is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Vice-Chair of Research, and Director of the Musculoskeletal Translational Innovation Initiative at the Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

  • Dankward Hoentzsch, MD

    AEFIX ADVISOR

    Dr. Hoentzsch is a retired trauma surgeon of the Trauma Center and University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany with extensive experience in all kinds of osteosynthesis, education, and orthopaedic device development.

  • Jonas Karlström, MD, MSc

    Dr. Karlström is a pediatrician and global health specialist, serving as Innovation Lead at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute.

  • Henry Ndasi, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: CAMEROON

    Dr. Ndasi is an orthopaedic and general surgeon, as well as the Chief Medical Officer at Baptist Hospital Mutengene in Cameroon.

  • Metasebia Worku Abebe, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: ETHIOPIA

    Dr. Abebe is a Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon at Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

  • Mengistu G. Mengesha, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: ETHIOPIA

    Dr. Mengesha is an orthopaedic surgeon at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.

  • Christina Barau Dejean Soray, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: HAITI

    Dr. Soray is an orthopedic trauma surgeon and assistant academic director at the University Hospital of La Paix and Pediatrics orthopedics at the St. Vincent Hospital for Children with disabilities in Haiti.

  • Pierre Marie Woolley, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: HAITI

    Dr. Woolley is an orthopaedic trauma surgeon, fellowship-trained in Trauma Pelvic and Acetabular surgery and reconstruction, and associate professor at HUP La Paix University Hospital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

  • Viktor Rokutov, MD, PhD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: UKRAINE

    Dr. Rokutov is an orthopaedic surgeon at Dnipro Clinical Hospital of Urgent Medical Care and the Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics department at Dnipro Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital.

  • Leonard Ngoie Banza, MBBS

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: MALAWI

    Dr. Banza is an orthopaedic surgeon at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi.

  • Denny Lie, MBBS, FRCS, FAMS

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: SINGAPORE

    Dr. Lie is a Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon and Innovation Director at SingHealth Duke-NUS.

  • Sivananthan Sashikaran, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: SRI LANKA

    Dr. Sashikaran is an orthopaedic surgeon at Teaching Hospital Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

  • Dr. Faseeh Shahab

    Faseeh Shahab, MD

    REGIONAL ADVISOR: PAKISTAN

    Dr. Shahab is an orthopaedic surgeon at Shahab Orthopaedic & General Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan.