Sharmila Ananadasbapathy

Sharmila is a Professor of Medicine in Gastroenterology, and Vice President of global programs at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. In her current role, she oversees Baylor's global program affiliations, as well as The Baylor Global Innovation Center which seeks to develop novel, environmentally appropriate technologies and approaches to addressing global disease burden. This includes the development and validation of innovative, lower-cost, environmentally and culturally appropriate technologies and approaches for the management of diseases in underserved global settings.

An advanced gastrointestinal endoscopist by training, Dr. Anandasabapathy's research focus involves the development and validation of novel technologies for diagnosis of early gastrointestinal cancer. In additional to her primary appointment at Baylor, Dr. Anandasabapathy also holds an adjunct appointment in Bioengineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medical Training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and her gastroenterology fellowship at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.