Harvard Alumni: India Knowledge Series with Brig. Dr. Arvind Lal
- March 16, 2022
Dear Oxbridge Partners and Affliates,
Oxbridge is a proud member of the Harvard Alumni Network.
For this month’s Knowledge Series, Brig. Dr. Arvind Lal reflects on his entrepreneurial journey of 45+ years, during which time his company had one of the most successful IPOs’ in the history of the National Stock Exchange. You will also hear about how COVID-19 has changed the healthcare industry’s dynamics the latest in diagnostics and learnings on how we can move on from the pandemic!
The monthly HAE India Knowledge Series meetings are open to qualified attendees. These live knowledge sharing sessions bring together our community in a compact 60 minute format focused. Each knowledge series event brings a speaker expert in their field addressing the HAE community.
Event Moderator: Rachna Sharma, HAE India Co-Chair, PLD ‘15
Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93754422550
About our Guest
Brig. Dr. Arvind Lal is a pioneer in bringing laboratory services in India at par with the Western world. He is an alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
In 1977, Brig. Lal took charge of Dr Lal PathLabs, the medical diagnostics laboratory founded in 1949 by his late father. Under his expert guidance and leadership, Dr Lal PathLabs (LPL) has become one of the most reputed laboratories in Asia having to its credit a record of 36 labs accredited from NABL & he brought to India International accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP – USA). Currently they operate nearly 236 labs including Asia’s biggest lab at Rohini, New Delhi and nearly 4,000 Collection Centers. The lab tests over 80,000 patients every day; in 2020 they tested more than 20 million patients. In the ongoing Covid pandemic they have already tested more than 2.5 million patients by RT – PCR.
He is currently the Chairman of FICCI Swasth Bharat (Public Health) Task Force and the outgoing Chairman of FICCI Health Services Committee. He is also the Former President of NatHealth.
Awarded with the Padma Shri in 2009, Dr. Lal is also the first civilian doctor to be granted by President of India an honorary Brigadier’s rank in the Armed Forces Medical Services.
In 2015, under his leadership, his company had one of the most successful IPOs’ in the history of the National Stock Exchange. In 2016, All India Management Association (AIMA) conferred on Dr. Lal the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award. In 2017, Dr Lal was conferred with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry. In 2019, Dr Lal was inducted in the prestigious ‘Hall of Fame’ by the Armed Forces Medical College. He was awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Healthcare in 2019. He holds a PhD, (Honoris Causa) by Rai University. He is the Managing Trustee of the philanthropic ALVL Foundation that is doing pioneering work in the field of Primary Healthcare with the Government. He is currently the Chairman of Haidakhandi Samaj, a spiritual organization that has 25 centers all over the world and has written about his spiritual experiences in his book ‘Corporate Yogi: My Journey as a Spiritual Seeker and An Accidental Entrepreneur’.
The Oxbridge Team
