NRW September Luncheon – Save the Date!
RESERVATION DEADLINE IS Friday, September 4th, 2026
Please note luncheon is on Tuesday, September 8th
Dr. Sethi was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Tennessee at age four. He was raised in Hillsboro, Tennessee by his parents, who were both physicians. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1975 from India. Sethi attended Hillsboro Elementary School and later attended the private Webb School.
After graduating from the Webb School, Dr. Sethi attended Brown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in neuroscience. He graduated magna cum laude in 2000. The following year, Sethi worked with children with muscular dystrophy in Tunisia as a Fulbright Scholar.
Sethi attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 2005. He completed his general surgery internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2006, and completed his residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program from 2006 to 2010.
Dr. Sethi returned to Tennessee in 2010 and completed his fellowship in orthopaedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Centerin 2011. He currently serves as an associate professor and orthopaedic trauma surgeon and the director of the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy. Dr. Sethi’s clinical interests center around the utilization of evidence-based medicine in the treatment of the orthopaedic trauma patient.
Healthy Tennessee
Sethi and his wife, Maya, founded Healthy Tennessee in 2011. Healthy Tennessee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes health education and provides community training opportunities. Healthy Tennessee was founded with a focus on combating Tennessee’s poor national rankings in measurements of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. The organization has also since increased its focus to include the opioid epidemic in Tennessee.
Healthy Tennessee has traveled across the state providing health screenings to insured, uninsured and TennCare patients. In 2014, Sethi received recognition from the American Medical Association for his work in the community and Healthy Tennessee. In 2016, Dr. Sethi was recognized as one of HealthLeaders Magazine’s “Top 20 Leaders in Medicine”.
Dr 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. He has also written for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and had a monthly health policy column in the magazine AAOS Now.
Dr. Sethi served as a health policy fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center at Meharry Medical College. He served as an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College also in Nashville, where he ran a clinic and operating room providing indigent care. He also 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.