asher hasan

Dr. Asher Hasan is a digital health innovator and serial entrepreneur. Asher is the CoFounder & Executive Chairman of doctHERs (http://www.docthers.com), the emerging world's first women-centred, gender-inclusive telemedicine company. Asher is also the Founder of NAYA JEEVAN (http://www.njfk.org), a hybrid social enterprise dedicated to providing socio-economically disadvantaged families throughout the emerging world with affordable access to quality, catastrophic healthcare. Asher served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Social Innovation for 2012-2014. He is a 2011 World Economic Forum/Schwab Foundation Asian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, a 2013 Synergos Senior Fellow, a 2009 TED India fellow, a 2011 Ashoka US fellow, a 2011 Ariane de Rothschild fellow and an invited member of the Clinton Global Initiative for 2014, 2010 and 2009. He has also been selected as an Asia 21 young leader in 2010. In addition, doctHERs is a winning finalist of the 2017 MIT SOLVE competition in the women & tech category and the winner of the Start-up Track at the 2017 World Health Summit (Berlin) . In 2016, doctHERs was a recipient the Judge's Choice Award in the MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition. In 2013, NAYA JEEVAN was recognised with the prestigious, Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Innovation Award and the Asia Society Public Service Award. Prior to launching NAYA JEEVAN, Asher served in the capacity of Senior Director and Head of the US Medical Affairs team (Obesity drugs portfolio) for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company in San Diego, CA. He spent six years at Sanofi as a Medical Director in their US headquarters. During his tenure in New York City, Asher also completed an MBA in Global Business & Leadership from New York University’s Stern School of Business. In his hey-dey, Asher attended Oberlin College where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and biology with an additional concentration in international relations. This was followed by research at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital followed by training in general surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center. Asher can often be seen hurtling down alpine ski slopes, is a voracious reader and loves to cruise the Caribbean. Istanbul, Bali, Bellagio and Rio de Janeiro are his favourite destinations for spiritual rejuvenation.