Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi

Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi is an Endoscopic sinus surgeon who primarily focuses on treating Acute and chronic sinusitis. He specializes in office based balloon sinuplasty procedures which are the latest and most affordable minimally invasive treatment for sinusitis. Dr Jagdish has completed his Bachelors of medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Rajiv Gandhi University of health Sciences in 2007. He is trained at St. John's Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore (2009-2011), a Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB) Fellow 2012, and holds an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship and Hospital Management (NIBM,2013). He also holds a degree in Diplomate of National Board in Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck surgery His core expertise lies in the process of identifying and analyzing unmet clinical needs for quick development of low-cost and high quality medical devices, and teaching/ training the Biodesign process.

Since 2010, he has co-invented and developed 18 affordable medical devices addressing the unmet needs in the Indian healthcare system, many of which have been taken over by indigenous companies, while some have formed startup companies for further development and commercialisation. He is recognized as one of the 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT technology review 2016. He is also a stand-up comedian, popularized by his YouTube channel “Jagdish Chaturvedi" and is the author of the bestselling book on medical device innovations called “Inventing Medical Devices - A perspective from India", " The benefits of failing successfully" and “One year of Stand-up comedy".