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Happy & Human
The podcast for over-educated, busy, and ambitious South Asian professionals and entrepreneurs. In each episode, Seema and Dinesh will dive into the philosophies, strategies, and tools that can help you live happier, healthier, productive, and fulfilled lives with more success.
They will be talking about things that help you think, do, and be better in wide-ranging areas around the five pillars of a good life: health, wealth, love, happiness, and impact — to empower you to reach your highest potential without compromising what’s important.
Dr. Seema Desai is a dentist, certified professional coach, and author of the book, “Connected: Discovering Your Inner Guides.” She is also a devoted wife and proud mother to two children, as well as an advocate for creating learning equality in children in underserved countries through her work with Pratham USA.
Dinesh Melwani is a law firm partner, author, speaker, and certified success and results coach. He is an internationally-recognized patent attorney that works with hi-tech clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 100 clients. He also believes deeply in the potential and capability inside of everyone. In addition, he is a loving father and husband.
Join Seema and Dinesh each week as they explore, from the male and female South Asian perspectives, what makes you individually and uniquely happy and human, and what tools and insights allow us to reach that next level and beyond. You will learn how to level up your mindset, develop the needed leadership skills in your career and personal life, and learn how to live up to your potential.
Happy & Human
The South Asian Healthcare Gap with Dr. Romit Bhattacharya
In this episode, Seema and Dinesh welcome special guest Dr. Romit Bhattacharya to have the necessary conversation around the underrepresentation of South Asians in healthcare and research. He’s breaking down why South Asians are historically underrepresented and why that’s so harmful. Dr. Bhattacharya shares more on his mission and why it’s so important to him to create the largest database of South Asians.
Dr. Romit Bhattacharya is a general and preventive cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an associated scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the Associate Director of the Cardiac Lifestyle Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Medical Director of the newly launched OurHealth Study - to study the lifestyle and genetic causes of cardiovascular disease among South Asians in the United States.
Dr. Bhattacharya's research focuses on comprehensive cardiometabolic risk profiling using a combination of genomic risk and lifestyle risk factors. He also studies novel digital technologies as tools to characterize lifestyle behaviors and to help patients manage disease and health promoting behaviors at home.
More about Dr. Bhattacharya:
Socials: Twitter = @RomitB_MD
OurHealthStudy: www.ourhealthstudy.org
Email: ourhealthstudy@mgb.org
@ourhealthstudy on instagram and on x/twitter
Links:
Dinesh Melwani https://dineshmelwani.com/ IG @dineshmelwani
Seema Desai https://drseemadesai.com, IG @dr.seemadesai
Happy and Human Podcast on IG @happyandhumanpodcast
