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He is the president and founder of the non-profit Healthy Tennessee. \u00a0Dr. Sethi serves as the director of the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy and is the lead author of the book <i id=\"mwCw\">An Introduction to Health Policy<\/i> and <i id=\"mwDA\">Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence Based Approach<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" class=\"mw-body-content\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" data-mw-parsoid-version=\"0.24.0.0-alpha19\" data-mw-html-version=\"2.8.0\">\n<section id=\"mwGg\" data-mw-section-id=\"1\" aria-labelledby=\"Early_life_and_education\">\n<p id=\"mwGw\">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. <sup id=\"cite_ref-auto1_4-0\" class=\"mw-ref reference\" data-mw=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ref&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;auto1&quot;},&quot;body&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;mw-reference-text-cite_note-auto1-4&quot;}}\"><\/sup>His parents immigrated to the United States in 1975 from India. Sethi attended Hillsboro Elementary School and later attended the private Webb School.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mwJA\">After graduating from the Webb School, Dr. Sethi attended Brown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in neuroscience. He graduated m<i id=\"mwJg\">agna cum laude<\/i> in 2000. The following year, Sethi worked with children with muscular dystrophy in Tunisia as a Fulbright Scholar.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"mw-ref reference\" data-mw=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ref&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{},&quot;body&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;mw-reference-text-cite_note-5&quot;}}\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p id=\"mwLQ\">Sethi attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 2005. He completed his general surgery internship at the \u00a0Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2006, and completed his residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Surgery Program from 2006 to 2010.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"mwOQ\" data-mw-section-id=\"2\" aria-labelledby=\"Career\">\n<p id=\"mwOg\">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. <sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"mw-ref reference\" data-mw=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;ref&quot;,&quot;attrs&quot;:{},&quot;body&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;mw-reference-text-cite_note-7&quot;}}\"><\/sup>Sethi&#8217;s clinical interests center around the utilization of evidence-based medicine in the treatment of the orthopaedic trauma patient.<i id=\"mwQg\"><\/i><\/p>\n<section id=\"mwYQ\" data-mw-section-id=\"3\" aria-labelledby=\"Healthy_Tennessee\">\n<div class=\"mw-heading mw-heading3\">\n<h3 id=\"Healthy_Tennessee\">Healthy Tennessee<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mwYg\">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. 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