Dr Prashant Jha

Founder-Editor, BMJ Innovations

Dr Prashant Jha is a physician-engineer-entrepreneur who trained in family medicine, bioengineering, product design, computer science, strategy, and innovation management from leading universities in India, the UK and USA. Over the last decade he has invented medical devices in the areas of stress urinary incontinence, hemorrhoid surgery, labor monitoring, pulmonary medicine, and diabetes management. Currently, Dr. Jha has a joint appointment at AIIMS and IIT Delhi where he trains physicians and engineers in the art and science of inventing medical technologies besides practising general medicine. He also serves as the Senior Editor in South Asia for The BMJ and founder-editor for BMJ Innovations, world’s first medical innovations journal.