Amit Sengupta - Stanford Center for International Development (SCID)

Stanford Center for International Development (SCID)
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford School of Engineering
Stanford School of Medicine
Amit Sengupta
Senior Consultant, Tata Memorial Cente & Adjunct Professor,
ITT/AIIMS, New Delhi
He received MBBS, MD in Obstetrics & Gynecology from Delhi University, PhD in Biomedical engineering
from IIT /AIIMS Delhi and Diplomate (Hon.) from Romanian OBGYN Society. Over the last 30 years, he
has been actively involved in various clinical, teaching, research, and consultancy assignments in India &
abroad. He is currently Program Director of Integrated dev of tribal women & Safe motherhood initiative – a
technologically driven program - a TATA trust initiative & other agencies; Principal Investigator of DST
international collaborative program for rural maternal health technology development (India-Netherlands) ;
Partners of India-Canada (IC-IMPACTS) & VTH-Stanford University Collaboration on affordable extramural
integrated health care solutions for Rural India.
He is also a Consultant (Tech), Tata Memorial Cancer Centre, Mumbai; Senior visiting OBGYN consultant
in Mumbai (Fortis Hospital) & Adjunct Professor of Biomedical engineering, IIT/ AIIMS, N. Delhi and
Bioengineering and Medical Electronics at DA-IICT ( Dhirubhai Ambani Institute) -Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat.
He received number of prestigious international and national awards for his scientific and community work
and holds membership of important scientific associations.
His two broad research interests are in the field of Reproductive & vascular bioengineering focusing on high
risk obstetrics and cancer and secondly in developing innovative integrated solutions for rapid diffusion and
adoption of affordable technology (health, water, energy, livelihood) to reach the un-reached, and provide
quality health care to India’s most marginalized population especially women living in the remote rural-tribal
areas.