Rohan Savio Sequeira is a distinguished consultant cardio-endocrine physician with an extensive career spanning over 25 years in more than five countries. He is a Portuguese national currently living and practicing medicine in India, trying to address the gaps in medical care to provide high-quality medical care at affordable costs to developing nations. Sequeira specializes in noninvasive cardiology, diabetes, endocrinology,and obesity management and holds senior consultant positions in cardio-endocrinology at prestigious institutions such as Jaslok Hospital, St. Elizabeth Hospital,S.L. Raheja Hospital, Holy Family Hospital, and Breach Candy Hospital in India.
Sequeira has a vocation for training medical students and has been the professor and head of the medical departments of various medical colleges in India, including the prestigious Grant Government Medial College and St. George’s Government Hospital. Sequeira’s career also includes serving as the honorary consultant physician to the governor of Maharashtra (India) and leading the Department of Health’s Policy Decision-Making Committee for the government of Maharashtra. His wealth of experience extends to cross-country healthcare implementation and the international medical and paramedical domain. With a keen understanding of addressable market needs and a vast network in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, Sequeira plays a vital role in advancing healthcare solutions.
He is currently actively involved in regulatory affairs of harm reduction strategies, especially in the field of tobacco harm reduction and addiction. He is also strongly associated with nutritional harm reduction, with a focus on pediatric and young adult patients. He is the founder and director of SOMHRA (www.somhra.org),an international society dedicated to providing safer alternatives for harm reduction in tobacco, alcohol, and food and nutrition.
