Manish K. Sethi, M.D.

Dr. Sethi is an Associate Professor and Orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University. He is currently Director of the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy and is the lead author of the book Orthopaedic Traumatology: An Evidence Based Approach and other peer reviewed publications. Dr. Sethi also takes an active role in teaching health policy at the undergraduate level at Vanderbilt University, serving as course director for MHS 0199, The Evolution of American Healthcare, an introductory course for college freshmen.

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.

Dr. Sethi maintains a deep interest in healthcare reform and has written for the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ) and currently writes a monthly health policy column in the magazine AAOS Now. He was short listed by the Commission on White House Fellowships as a finalist for the White House Fellowship 2009. He has served as the National Chairman of the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section and has served on the Committee on Publications of the New England Journal of Medicine

Dr. Sethi returned home to Tennessee to impact change in healthcare and education. He has served as an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College also in Nashville where he ran a clinic and operating room providing indigent care. Currently, together with the RWJ Center at Meharry Medical College, he is leading a public-private partnership with local schools to develop Violence Prevention Programs in order to reduce trauma injuries associated with violence.