Kalyan Tadepalli

Highly accomplished Physician-Scientist with 15+ years of experience of leveraging AI and cutting-edge research to drive healthcare innovation. Deeply passionate about expanding access to quality care and improving health outcomes. Expertise in multidisciplinary AI initiatives, clinical decision support systems, and medical imaging analysis. Committed to revolutionizing healthcare at the intersection of technology and patient-centered care.

Reliance Industries Ltd                                                                                                                                                   (Dec 20 - Present)

Designation: Medical Consultant                                                                                                                                  

Lead multidisciplinary AI initiatives tackling healthcare and social challenges through clinical decision support systems, medical imaging analysis, and data science education programs.

Jio AI-Centre of Excellence 

• Collaborate closely with industry veterans and data science teams to reimagine and revolutionize the application of AI across diverse healthcare sectors, such as Clinical Decision Support, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Medical Imaging, and Bio-physiological signals.
• Core member of the team that developed, Avighna, a state-of-the-art clinical decision support and symptom checker tool, setting new industry standards. This tool has a benchmark creating accuracy on 99.995%. This is platform-agnostic solution, capable of functioning via a browser, an app, within an EHR, as part of an IVRS, or as a WhatsApp bot.

CVMI Lab (Computer Vision in Medical Imaging)

• Work with a team of research scholars to tackle complex problems in Breast, Thorax, and Musculoskeletal imaging like heavily skewed class distributions, semantic indistinctness of phenotypic visual manifestations, paucity of expert-annotated exemplars and interpretability issues. 
• Contribute to research efforts leading to 14 publications and conference presentations to date.

Jio Institute, Reliance Foundation, Institution of Education and Research (RFIER)

• Collaborate with students of the institute’s flagship Post-Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science program, guiding them in harnessing the power of AI for societal benefits.
• Guide diverse and innovative projects. Prominent examples are, reimagining credit scores for traditionally non-creditworthy individuals, applying AI to enhance nursing-care Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), and utilizing Computer Vision for Breast Thermal Imaging.

Sir HNRF Hospital                                                                                                                                                            (Jun 17 – Dec 20)

Designation: Senior Resident                                                                                                                         

Residency in Orthopedic Surgery: 

• Participated in an intensive residency program with a focus on complex spine surgeries and pediatric orthopedics, managing a wide spectrum of conditions. Utilized cutting-edge technologies such as IONM, stereotactic navigation, robotic surgery, personalized 3D printed implants and the like to significantly enhancing patient outcomes. The residency led to successful board certification.
• Performed, assisted, and mentored in over 1500 surgeries throughout the three-year residency, spanning across a broad range of orthopedic subspecialties including Oncology, Arthroplasty, Degenerative Disorders, Deformity Correction, Spine and Skull Base, and Complex Trauma.
• Beyond core academic duties, actively organized and participated in medical conferences and academic activities for students.
• Collaborated closely with the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) management team, working to identify, understand, and address system bottlenecks and create solutions to address the same. 

Covid-19 Rotation:

•  Volunteered at 7 Hills Hospital, a 1500-bed tertiary-care inpatient facility, during two separate periods totalling six months, serving during peak COVID-19 waves. By extremely proactive, cross-disciplinary management of cases, was able to increase ward-to-home discharges to more than 98% and drive down in-hospital mortality to less than 0.25%. 

Rajbhra Healthcare Ltd  - Uttarakhand                                                                                                                     (Jan 16 – Mar 17)

Designation: Chief Medical Officer                                                                                                                           

• Fulfilled a critical role providing essential primary care services to a remote, high-altitude community of approximately 15,000 residents across a cluster of 35 villages, overcoming obstacles such as limited resources and sparse infrastructure.
• Demonstrated creativity and resourcefulness in the face of challenges, developing innovative solutions to address issues like severely limited accessibility, lack of robust supply chains for essential drugs and climatic extremes.  

Other Postings 

Care Hospitals - Bihar

Pediatric ICU Registrar                                                                                                                                                  (Jan 14 – Jan 16)

• Developed clinical protocols and standards of care for a new Pediatric ICU, resulting in a neonatal mortality rate reduction to under 1%
• Analyzed extensive hospital data through statistical modelling and data visualization to inform strategic decision making and optimize operations
• Mentored multiple care units on successfully replicating the evidence-based ICU model to decrease infant mortality rates and enhance maternal and child health outcomes, particularly in the perinatal stage

Médecins Sans Frontières - Chattisgarh                                                                                                                     (Mar 13 – Dec13)

Field Medic 

• Provided primary healthcare services to underserved populations in extemely inaccessible and challenging locations, directly managing the care of 300+ TB patients, 1000+ expectant mothers, and a daily OPD load of over 150 patients. 
• Oversaw all clinical operations and ensured a high quality of care through regular staff training for medical professionals and paramedical workers, building internal capacity. 
• Administered comprehensive public health programs focused on nutrition, immunization, reproductive health, tuberculosis, and humanitarian aid, meeting the medical needs of the community

Riverside Education Foundation - Gujarat                                                                                                               (Sep 11 – Mar 13)

Campus Doctor  

• Transformed from a practicing physician into a passionate educator teaching Physics, Chemistry, and World History to high school students in grades 9-12
• Utilized innovative teaching methods to spark students' curiosity and drive deeper comprehension of scientific concepts and the scientific process
• Fostered students' interest in science through creative lesson planning and hands-on learning approaches

Trainee Doctor - Raksha Shakthi Hospital - Andhra Pradesh                                                                             (Apr’10 – Sep’11)

Medical Intern -  - GSMC, Chennai                                                                                                                            (Mar’09 – Mar’10)

CITI Certified (Harvard Medical School)