Manish K. Sethi

Manish K. Sethi (born January 3, 1978) is an American physician and assistant professor and orthopaedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University. As of 2015 he was Director of the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy. He is the lead author of the book Orthopaedic Traumatology: An Evidence Based Approach, and other peer-reviewed publications. Sethi also teaches 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.

Sethi was raised in Hillsboro, Tennessee and attended college at Brown University. Following one year as a Fulbright Scholar working with children with muscular dystrophy in Tunisia, he went to Harvard Medical School. Manish also completed his Orthopedic surgical training while at Harvard University and was a health policy fellow for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Sethi completed his general surgery internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and was a resident in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program. His clinical interests center around the utilization of evidence-based medicine in the treatment of the orthopaedic trauma patient.

Sethi is interested in healthcare reform, has written for the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ), and as of 2015 wrote a monthly health policy column in the magazine AAOS Now. He was short-listed by the Commission on White House Fellowships as a finalist for the White House Fellowship 2009. He served as the National Chairman of the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section and on the Committee on Publications of the New England Journal of Medicine

Sethi returned to Tennessee to work on healthcare and education. He served as an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College also in Nashville, running a clinic and operating room providing indigent care. As of 2015 together with the RWJ Center at Meharry Medical College, he was leading a public-private partnership with local schools to develop Violence Prevention Programs.

Fulbright Fellow Award