Governance
Office Bearers
The Office Bearers of Sparsh Palliative Care Services provide leadership, direction and guiding our nonprofit’s mission in the USA.
Dr. M. Subrahmanyam,
President, HoD, Anesthesiology, Rainbow Hospitals
Dr. M Subrahmanyam is the Founding Director of ‘Axon Anaesthesia Associates Pvt. Ltd.”, which is now the largest group practice in Anaesthesia in India. Having worked extensively abroad, Dr. M Subrahmanyam moved back in 2000 determined to improve clinical standards of Anaesthesia across the country. The company now has over 175 trained anaesthesiologists, providing services to over 30 hospitals in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. He is also actively involved in teaching younger anaesthesia doctors.
He has been instrumental in starting Sparsh Hospice, the first of its kind in Hyderabad, along with other members of Rotary Banjara and is the President of its governing board.
Dr. M Subrahmanyam’s medical interests are Paediatric Anaesthesia and Obstetric Anaesthesia and he is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist at Rainbow Hospital, Hyderabad. He has written chapters in medical textbooks and has been published in many journals.
M. Suresh Reddy
Secretary, MD, Pride Motors
Mr. Suresh Reddy, comes from an agricultural family from Miryalguda, Nalgonda District, Telangana. He had his education from St. George’s Grammer School, AV College, Commerce graduation from IIMC (Vasavi), College, Hyderabad.
He currently runs automobile dealerships in the name of “ Pride “. He started his career in 1987 with tractor dealerships of “ Massey Ferguson “ in Miryalaguda and today the group deals with the brands Hero Motorcycles, Honda, Jaguar & Land Rover, Fiat & Jeep cars. Suresh is the founder, long Term Trustee for ‘SPARSH HOSPICE’, a Centre for Palliative Care for terminally ill patients. He also runs a school in his village Miryalguda for underpriviledged children providing quality education.
Lax Gopisetty
Treasurer, President & CEO, Infosys Public Services
Lax Gopisetty is Chief Executive Officer of Infosys Public Services, an Infosys subsidiary focused on public sector in the US and Canada. Lax has over 30 years of experience in helping organizations across public and private sectors including, Federal, State & local, Provincial, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, utilities, education, and insurance on their transformational and operational strategies leveraging technology innovations and regulatory obligations. He has built global consulting businesses that have helped organizations explore new possibilities and deliver value to their stakeholders through creative business models and innovative technologies.
Lax holds a master’s in computer science and an executive master’s in management. Beyond business, Lax is passionate about creating social impact and giving back to the community through various initiatives. He is an active member of the Board at Sparsh Palliative Care Services, delivering Hospice services in India for past decade.
Dr. Praveen Kollipara
Dr. Praveen Kollipara graduated from the Osmania Medical College,Osmania Medical College in 1986. He works in Fort Wayne, IN and 8 other locations and specializes in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Kollipara is affiliated with Lutheran Hospital Of Indiana, Parkview Hospital Randallia, Parkview Huntington Hospital and Parkview Regional Medical Center. He is also an active Rotarian and has been part of many large Global Grants supporting Children’s cardiac surgeries in India.
Dr. Aruna Venkatesh
Dr. Aruna Venkatesh, MD is a Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Specialist in San Antonio, TX and has over 34 years of experience in the medical field. Dr. Venkatesh has more experience with Diabetes than other specialists in her area. She graduated from Osmania Med Coll medical school in 1986. She is affiliated with University Hospital – University Health System
Jay Reddy P
Jay Reddy, Founder of Vitreos Health and served as its CEO since 2009. Vitreos Health developed predictive models to offer prescriptive health insights for population health. Vitros Health was sold to HMS Holding in September 2019.
Before Vitreos Health, Jay was the Founder & CEO of MindFlow Technologies, a firm he started in 1999 with the vision of delivering operations productivity improvements for Global 1000 enterprises through optimization-based decision support technologies. Under his leadership, MindFlow was ranked in the visionary quadrant by Gartner and ranked in the Top 100 emerging companies by ComputerWorld, prior to its acquisition in 2006. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur Jay Reddy worked with PepsiCo, KPMG Peat Marwick and Ethyl Corporation.
Jay is the alumni of HPSR (1980) batch and holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from IIT, Delhi, and earned his MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.