Vipul Mankad, M.D.

Vipul Mankad, M.D. Founding President, Global Health Science University and Dean, School of Medicine (proposed)
Dr. Vipul Mankad has a distinguished career combining academic physician leadership, business skills, and regulatory policy expertise to build successful health systems, clinical research and medical education institutions, and patient/community care programs across the globe.
Dr. Mankad began his career as a scientist, professor, and physician leader with the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, where he garnered national and international acclaim for his work on children with blood diseases and cancer. He worked tirelessly to secure competitive grants of $ 16 million ($ 60 million in 2022-inflation-adjusted dollars) from the National Institutes of Health to build one of 10 Comprehensive Sickle Cell Centers in the US.
Dr. Mankad then served as Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky and in addition, served as the Chief Clinical Officer for the University Physicians. During his tenure, he led the turnaround of group practice of 480 physicians and 15 clinical departments by implementing a Business Process Improvement Plan (BPIP), which was benchmarked as an industry-leading best practices model. He also founded and led the 129-bed Kentucky Children’s Hospital in addition to expanding research and education.
After 11 years as Professor and Pediatric Department Chairman and multiple other roles at the University of Kentucky, Doctor Mankad obtained a nationally competitive Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant and leveraged Intergovernmental Personnel Agreements to fund his two-year sabbatical in the Institute of Medicine and federal government; both the US Senate and CMS. Over the next two years, Dr. Mankad worked on various health policy issues, cost structures, and quality of care delivery. He also forged state-federal partnerships to improve the quality of care for Medicaid beneficiaries and eliminate disparities in health outcomes for high-risk and disadvantaged populations.
He is widely published with a bibliography that includes more than 150 publications including 3 books. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer and editor for numerous medical and scientific journals. Dr. Mankad has also served as a consultant, lecturer, and visiting professor to numerous hospitals and medical schools across the US, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has also been the chairman and member of numerous government review panels for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). He writes about his Indian heritage and is currently featured as a prominent Asian American at the Houston Public Library. He presides over his family’s philanthropic foundation to support charitable services, predominantly in India.