OUR JOURNEY

अकेले चले थे सफ़र पे, कारवां बनता गया

the brown heart journey: Drs. nirmal and renu joshi

Based in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania USA, we are two experienced physicians, medical school sweethearts, with over 70 years of medical practice between us. We undertook the journey of the BROWN HEART almost 2 years ago after seeing numerous friends and acquaintances within our South Asian community getting early and severe heart disease and several getting bypass surgery, and some tragically passing away--way too early. After extensive, evidence-based scientific research, we travelled all over the US, India and the UK to interview health experts and gather human stories of survival and loss related to the menace of heart disease in South Asians (those from India, Pakistan, Bangladhesh, Srilanka and Nepal) and we weaved over 100 hours of such rich interviews into a 2 hour documentary film (a longer version with four 45-minute episodes in the form of a web-series awaits as well!)

THE BROWN HEART "ROCK": YOGENDRA SINGH

Based in Delhi, Yogendra is the biggest and most important decision we made. We started by having him as a Cinematographer for the Brown Heart in India, but his sincerity, film-making skills, and innate creative talent led him to becoming the Associate Director and the single person who put in the countless hours and often "burned the midnight oil" to make the Brown Heart happen. The Brown Heart is here because of him. His answer to everything (almost!) I asked him to do: "Yes, we can!" Through countless crises and inevitable challenges during the making of the Brown Heart, he remains a loyal friend who I can count on

HERSHA & HASU P. SHAH

MADHAVI & RAMESH BATHINI

OUR EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

THE BROWN HEART was funded by generous donations from private donors in Central Pennsylvania who believed in the heart-felt and noble project goals of saving lives and improving health. The majority of the funding was provided by two couples, based in Central Pennsylvania, who are known for giving and philanthropy: Hersha and Hasu P. Shah, and Madhavi and Ramesh Bathini. Hasu Bhai and Hersha ben have been personal friends for several decades. Their legendary journey owning hotels across America, and unparalleled giving and philanthropy is well chronicled here. But their warmth and personal friendship is of highest value to us. Ramesh is a gifted investment professional who is sharp and talented, but both Madhavi and him are best known to us for their humility, love, friendship and gentleness.

Thanks to these two special friends in the community, within seven days of the Brown Heart concept, we had secured close to 85% of the funds required. Through these funds, we found the necessary wind under our sails to embark on this long but highly rewarding journey

The project ROI (Return on Investment): SAVED LIVES!

Signficiant funding was added from our Gold Sponsors:

GOLD FUNDING SUPPORT

Drs. Milan and Manjari Joshi

Srini and Meena Subramanian

Dr. Alka and Mr. Devender Sharma

Silver Funding Support: Asian Indian Americans of Central PA, Pankaj and Malini Agarwal, Neena and Manish Agarwal

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY TEAM (the science trio)

DR. ALKA KANAYA

Professor of Medicine, Principal Investigator,, MASALA study. UCSF, California

DR. ANKUR KALRA

Interventional Cardiologist

Fothcoming Div. Chief-Cardiology, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York

DR. PRIYANKA SATISH

Preventive Cardiologist

Ascension Texas and UT Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas

OUR INTERVIEWEES

Dr. Devi Shetty, Dr. Ankur Kalra, Dr. Priyanka Satish, Dr. Rajat Joshi, Dr. Naresh Trehan, Dr. Alka Kanaya, Dr. Wasim Hanif, Dr. Sudhanshu Dwivedi, Drs. Sishhir and Sevith Rao, Anant and Sanjivani Tope, Dr. Satya and Shanti Bhattacharya, Sarju Devi, Ishu, Imtiaz Akhtar, Manpal and Archana Singh, Ankit, Dr. Luna Pant, Dr. Balram Bhargava, Dr. OP Yadava, Dr. Prateek Bhatnagar, Dr. Roopali Khanna, Dr. Meena Satnam, Dr. Salim Virani, Dr. Rajiv Jauhar, Dr. Raj Bhopal, Dr. Enas A. Enas, Ashish Mathur, Dr. S. Ramakrishnan, Dr. Chandni Suvarna, Parminder Singh Malik, Jayprakash, Dr. Romit Bhattacharya, Dr. Amit Khera, Dr. Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Dr. Usha Sriram, Dr. V. Mohan, Dr. Parag Singhal, Dr. Chittaranjan Yajnik, Dr. Palaniappan Manickam (Dr. Pal), Dr. Ashwini Wagle, Dr. Ambuj Roy, Dr. Mohit Gupta, Dr. Disha Joshi, Anita Sathe, Dr. Kiran Patel, Thangamani S, Ashish Sinha, Dr. Nilay Shah, Dr. Pavil Cherian, Dr. Mubashir Mumtaz, Dr. Mintu Turakhia

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