ANU PARVATIYAR, BME '08, CEO OF ETHONOVA
By: ROGER SLAVENS | Categories: Alumni Achievements
Global health has been a passion of Anu Parvatiyar’s since she was an undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. She knew she wanted to study the intersection between public health and technology, and when she didn't find an existing avenue of study or research, she made her own. She harassed the biomedical engineering department to let her design and take an independent study course she called Design for the Developing World and 10 years later Parvatiyar would use that same research to write the business strategy for her medical device startup, Ethnova. The company designs, develops and distributes new forms of medical technologies and treatment to transform care in underserved markets around the globe. She believes that patients and doctors in the most remote areas cannot be served with the same designs, approaches and assumptions as those present in traditional medtech markets. Parvatiyar spent the first 10 years of her career
conducting clinical research in Grady Hospital's trauma center, designing cardiac access ports for heart valve repair in Atlanta, overseeing plastics extrusion for medical devices in China, interviewing nurses about diagnostics in Singapore, building communications platforms for healthcare workers in Nigeria, and deploying software for polio eradication in Chad. She serves on the Alumni Association’s board of trustees and won its Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2016.
