Gundu Hirisave Rama Rao

Who is Gundu Hirisave Rama Rao?

Gundu Hirisave Rama Rao was born in Tumkur, India, on 23 August 1937. He is a scientist, entrepreneur and a tenured professor at the Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota. He and Professor John Eaton visited India in 1981 under a National Science Foundation sponsorship, to explore opportunities for collaborative research projects. They visited Medical Institutions from Kashmir in the North to Trivandrum in the South. He again visited India during 1990-93, as a Professor and a senior consultant for Government of India under a United Nations Development Program called TOKTEN sponsored by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. He is a member of the Minneapolis University Rotary Club. He is listed as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Roster. He is an active member of Rotary E-Club, RI.3190, Bangalore, India.

He is the founder of South Asian Society on Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis and AayuSmart LLC, an IT supported web-based health management company. He has been actively involved in creating awareness, developing educational and preventive programs for the prevention of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension, obesity, metabolic diseases, type 2-diabetes vascular diseases and stroke. Dr. Rao has spent close to 40 years in Minnesota. Currently he lives in Maryland with his wife, two children, three grand children and spends half of his time in India, developing collaborative projects related to improving health care.