Her Story
About Amishi
My grandparents were doctors, and I saw the impact doctors have in the medical field. I really wanted to contribute to that, but I was also leaning towards engineering. I come from India, and I came to the US when I was just [AGE], all by myself with no family or friends. That was almost 11 to 12 years ago now. When my grandparents were helping in smaller villages, I saw that a lot of people didn't even have medical facilities. I wondered why so many people were still dying and why medical care couldn't reach the farthest, most disadvantaged places in India. That's where I learned about biomedical engineering and decided to pursue my career in it. I really wanted innovation to reach not just a section of the world, but the entire world. I thought that was the way to empower people and truly give back. I started with clinical research at Boston Children's and Harvard Medical School after graduation, where I got to publish many papers. Then I got into consulting, learning strategy - how to navigate through companies, working on pricing and market intelligence. After that, I worked at Hologic building breast biopsy devices, working on novel technologies to deliver markers in a minimally invasive way for faster recovery. At Siemens Healthineers, I was building radiotherapy and radiosurgery devices and helping launch products end-to-end as a program leader. About a month ago, I started at Eko, where I lead partnerships. Instead of individually selling to each clinician, we want to reach them in volumes and get to clinicians much faster. I work with different partners - distributors and resellers - globally so we can grow our footprint faster. We make digital AI stethoscopes and are the leading company in that space. I've been a jack-of-all-trades within the medical device field, working on the commercial side, operations, engineering, research, and development. That gives me a bird's-eye view of the entire end-to-end workspace of a medical device company.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Amishi
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would owe it all to my family, who has always been there for me, believing in my dreams, supporting me, and never giving up on me. I think more than me, they never gave up on me. I owe everything to my parents and my brother. Back in the day, even for me to come here financially and everything, they just supported me so much. My dad ended up selling his land just to get me here. I owe them so much - I can't even tell you. I've got the most supportive parents. When my friends' parents were telling them to get married, my parents were telling me to follow my dreams. I think that's very encouraging. I'm really blessed there for sure. Having someone who believes in you, and you believing in yourself - I think both of those are the most important things.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Believe in yourselves. I know however cliche that might sound, and you may hear it every day, but I think at the end of the day, what really keeps you going is not external - it's within you. There is nothing else but that little voice inside yourself which tells you, do not give up. I would say just keep following that and do not give up. Once you do not give up, there's so much beautiful things that's gonna come out of all your hard work. I'm from a very small city in India, and even having a dream like coming to the US when I was [AGE] was really ambitious and probably even impossible. Nobody in my family had ever come abroad. I was the first generation to go outside when I was [AGE]. If I can do it, so can you. It's like, if I can, trust me, so can you, and so can every one of us. Women all across the globe need to hear this. They just need to have that courage to stand up for themselves and just go do it, because you're really worth that. You're really worth your dreams, and you got this.
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