
Namit Choksi is a physician-entrepreneur, health care executive, and investor focused on building scalable, high-integrity health care platforms. He serves as chief executive officer of Tend Health, a national behavioral health company supporting clinicians in high-stress environments, and as executive director of The Asclepian Group, a health care investment firm. Dr. Choksi combines frontline clinical experience with operating and investment expertise to scale care delivery and health technology businesses.
Previously, he led growth and strategy for India and the Asia-Pacific region at Perfect Day and worked with Northern Light Venture Capital, where he advised and invested in health care startups. His global health experience includes collaborations with the World Bank and India’s Ministry of Health. He holds an MD., an MPH from Harvard, and an MBA from MIT Sloan, and is a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University.
His commentary and thought leadership have appeared in Authority Magazine, MedCity News, Becker’s Hospital Review, Health IT Answers, New India Abroad, Citybiz Portland, and Life Sciences Times. He shares professional updates on LinkedIn.
It is 3 a.m. and you are wide awake, not because of your overnight shift or a surgery you are prepping for, but because the stress you have been carrying for months will not let you sleep. You know you need help. You also know you probably will not ask for it. Somewhere in the back of your mind, a fear: that a mental health diagnosis could surface in your …
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