S V Mahadevan

Dr. SV Mahadevan is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and is a teaching physician at Stanford Health Care. He received his medical degree from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and has been a practicing emergency medicine specialist for more than 23 years.

He was the founding chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford (2015-17), founding director of Stanford Emergency Medicine International (2000-2015), and currently serves as both the Director of Global Affairs and Strategy for Stanford Medicine as well as the Director of South Asia Outreach, Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE). Dr. Mahadevan has received numerous prestigious teaching awards throughout his career and is the lead editor of the textbook, An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine, which won the 2006 American Medical Writers Association Award in the Physician’s Category.