Dr. Madhava Setty is an Author, Physician, and Engineer. He is the only child of parents who immigrated to the United States from South India in 1965. Dr. Setty earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1988 and worked in the Aerospace and Defense industries for six years. In the spring of 1992, he participated in a research expedition to the polar ice cap funded by the Office of Naval Research. That experience at the “top of the world” completely changed his life, leading him to decide that he would no longer participate in any effort that wasn’t directed toward alleviating suffering on this planet.

Dr. Setty received his medical education at Baylor College of Medicine in 1998 and completed his training in Anesthesiology at The University of Pennsylvania in 2002. He became a Diplomate of the American Board of Anes ...