My life has been formed by three people and three attitudes:

• From my mother, a belief that I can be and do anything, including move to the US and create real change.
• From my father, the audacity to ask for and work for what I want in life.
• From my wife, the value of constantly learning and the passion to be everything I could be.

Before my degrees and accomplishments, I am a husband to an extraordinary woman, Ashu, and father to two incredible young women, Chandni and Sharn. Beyond those blessings, I have my MBA and a thriving family business.

Getting to America

In the 1960s, my uncle emigrated to the US. In my young mind, he lived in a land where the roads were smooth, the sky rained honey, and the rivers were filled with milk. One day, my mother pointed to an airplane in the blue Indian sky and told me it was going to my uncle’s home in America. From that moment, I wanted to come to the US and be a part of the miracle that is this amazing nation. The US is a place where first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants can do well if they work hard.

Audacity and Gasoline

I finally coaxed my parents into moving to the US. When we arrived, my father, who’d been an engineer in India, got to work in the evenings at a gas station. One night, I was walking home with him from his work through our rough neighborhood. We stopped by another gas station owned by Mr. Higginbotham. My father told Mr. Higginoothan, “You’re getting too old for this place. Perhaps, you should sell the gas station to me and retire.” He took up on the offer – at midnight on some random night.

Healthcare, the Real Estate Business, and Changing Medicine  

My wife uses her career knowledge to help transform patients’ lives, practicing for more than 20 years in roles ranging from chairperson at the Department of Pediatrics at Bayshore Medical Center, to an associate professor at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Her passion for medicine and healing is infectious. It combined with my passion for the real estate business, we bought our first medical practice in 2014. And since then, we haven’t stop.

Better Access to Medical Care

My beliefs about healthcare are simple: Early primary care diagnostics could avoid future ER and Hospital admissions, reducing the cost of healthcare for the entire system. For instance, increasing well-child visits, annual checks, child immunizations, postpartum depression screening, potentially preventable admissions as well as other early screenings might make the difference in later patient complications.