Manish K. Sethi

Manish K. Sethi (born 3 January 1978) is an American physician. Sethi was raised in Hillsboro, TN and is an Orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University and co-director of the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy. Sethi is a leading researcher on the topic of defensive medicine, and has lectured and published extensively in this area.

Education

Sethi attended high school at The Webb School in Bell Buckle, TN. A board eligible orthopedic surgeon, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from Brown University, and an MD from Harvard Medical School. Prior to attending medical school, Sethi was a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia. He currently holds a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Career

Dr. Sethi completed his general surgery internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA and was a resident in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program. Dr. Sethi’s clinical interests center around the utilization of evidence based medicine in the treatment of the Orthopaedic Trauma Patient. He is currently on Faculty at Vanderbilt University.

Sethi also maintains a deep interest in health policy and has been a writer for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as well as a Health Policy fellow for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. He has served as the National Chairman of the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section and has served as a member of the Committee on Publications of the New England Journal of Medicine of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In 2009 Dr. Sethi was selected as a national finalist for the White House Fellowship.

Honors

Fulbright Fellow Award

References

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