1. Manish Kumar Sethi was born on January 3,1978 and is an American physician and former political candidate.
31 Facts About Manny Sethi
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Manny Sethi is the president and founder of the non-profit Healthy Tennessee and an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Manny Sethi serves as the director of the Vanderbilt Orthopedic Institute Center for Health Policy and is the lead author of the books An Introduction to Health Policy and Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence Based Approach.
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Manny Sethi was a Republican candidate in the 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee.
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Manny Sethi was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Tennessee at age four.
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Manny Sethi was raised in Hillsboro, Tennessee by his parents, who were both physicians.
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Manny Sethi's parents immigrated to the United States in 1975 from India.
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Manny Sethi attended Hillsboro Elementary School and later attended the private Webb School.
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Manny Sethi completed his general surgery internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2006, and completed his residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Surgery Program from 2006 to 2010.
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Manny Sethi returned to Tennessee in 2010 and completed his fellowship in orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2011.
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Manny Sethi currently serves as an associate professor and orthopedic trauma surgeon and the director of the Vanderbilt Orthopedic Institute Center for Health Policy.
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Manny Sethi has written multiple medical texts, including Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence-Based Approach, and Orthopedic Surgery Examination and Board Review.
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Manny Sethi has co-authored several articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, including Neurosurgery, Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, Injury, the American Journal of Orthopedics, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Injury and Violence Research, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and others.
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In 2014, Manny Sethi received recognition from the American Medical Association for his work in the community and Healthy Tennessee.
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In 2016, Manny Sethi was recognized as one of HealthLeaders Magazine's "Top 20 Leaders in Medicine".
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In 2017, Manny Sethi was invited by Senator Lamar Alexander to testify before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
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Manny Sethi was one of five health care professionals to testify in a hearing entitled Stabilizing Premiums and Helping Individuals in the Individual Insurance Market for 2018: Health Care Stakeholders.
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Also in 2017, Manny Sethi was invited to the White House for a listening session with President Donald Trump.
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Manny Sethi was selected as one of eleven health care professionals from across the nation to discuss possible solutions to address difficulties in the health insurance market.
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Manny Sethi co-authored the book An Introduction to Health Policy with former-senator Bill Frist, who has served as a mentor for Manny Sethi.
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Manny Sethi 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.
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Manny Sethi has written for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and had a monthly health policy column in the magazine AAOS Now.
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Manny Sethi served as a health policy fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center at Meharry Medical College.
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Manny Sethi served as an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, where he ran a clinic and operating room providing indigent care.
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Manny Sethi taught 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.
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On June 2,2019, Manny Sethi announced his candidacy for the US Senate election in Tennessee as a Republican.
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Manny Sethi faced businessman, diplomat, and former state government official Bill Hagerty, who served as the US Ambassador to Japan for two years in the Trump administration.
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Manny Sethi was endorsed by several current and former Republican members of Congress, including Sen.
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Manny Sethi declined to run for Tennessee's 5th congressional district in the 2022 election.
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Manny Sethi received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law.
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Manny Sethi wrote The American Dream in Tennessee: Stories of Faith, Struggle, and Survival in 2015, which details his family's story of immigration to Tennessee and building a life in America.