Dr. Piyush Kalakoti is the Founder, Director, and Chief Scientific Officer of MedResearchX Private Limited, an early-stage Indian healthcare and technology startup based in Mumbai. The company integrates clinical research, research education, digital product development, growth systems, business automation, and applied artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Kalakoti and his team are building an integrated ecosystem that combines specialist expertise, productized services, digital infrastructure, managed systems, AI agents, and workflow automation for healthcare professionals, researchers, hospitals, healthcare organizations, and academic and research institutions, with a progressive pathway toward scalable software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. Dr. Kalakoti also serves as Vice President of Strategy & Growth at SIVA.AI, Inc., a U.S.-based digital-health venture developing SaaS solutions for spine-care navigation, clinical workflow optimization, and patient engagement, with a planned progression toward Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) applications.
A physician-scientist and healthcare entrepreneur, Dr. Kalakoti’s research spans spine and spinal disorders, cerebrovascular disease and stroke, cranial neurosurgery and neuro-oncology, neurotrauma, functional neurosurgery and epilepsy surgery, neuroimaging, surgical outcomes and health services research, clinical trials and multicenter research, and digital health. His academic and research appointments have included Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Iowa, following postgraduate research training in neurosurgery at Louisiana State University and orthopedic spine at the University of Iowa. He attended the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he undertook graduate coursework toward a Master of Public Health (MPH). Dr. Kalakoti currently serves on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee of the North American Spine Society (NASS), having held consecutive appointment terms, and co-authored two evidence-based clinical guidelines addressing the diagnosis and treatment of adults with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures and neoplastic vertebral fractures. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, five book chapters, and more than 100 scientific presentations, and serves as a peer reviewer for more than a dozen clinical and scientific journals.