Ajit Singh, Ph.D., is president of the Oncology Care Systems Group of Siemens Medical Solutions. Assuming the position in August 2001, he launched a turn-around initiative to refocus the division into a solutions-oriented and more profitable business. The resulting process-driven structure is the worldwide headquarters for strategy and systems development encompassing the necessary functions of manufacturing, sales, marketing and service.
(He was also quoted in chronicle Sept. 2006 issue.)
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2007/01/08/story10.html?page=1
Excerpts from the article
At long last a lingering idea comes to fruition for Singh
Philadelphia Business Journal - January 5, 2007
by Peter Key Staff Writer
MALVERN -- Fifteen years ago, Ajit Singh looked into the idea of creating a computer system that could provide doctors with the precise information they needed about a patient at the exact time and place they needed it.
Singh quickly realized that there was no demand for such a system and even if there were, the technology needed to make it didn't exist. So he turned his attention elsewhere. Still, he never completely let go of the idea.
"In the back of my mind, this was always an area that I wanted to come back to," he said.
Good thing, because he's been working on it full time since September. That was when Siemens Medical Solutions created the Image and Knowledge Management division and named Singh to head it.
The division was formed from three full-fledged business units and one unit that was just getting started.
One of the three mature units is responsible for syngo, Siemens' software for creating, processing and archiving medical images. Another is focused on RIS/PACS, a combination of two acronyms that stand for Radiology Information Systems/Picture Archiving and Communications Services. The last specializes in computer-aided diagnosis, or CAD.
The fledgling unit is developing software that uses artificial intelligence to help make treatment recommendations. ……
NAME: Ajit Singh
AGE: 43
JOB: President and CEO of Image and Knowledge Management division of Siemens Medical Solutions
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: For Siemens Medical, he has headed the Oncology Care Systems Division; led the global Health Initiative; and been responsible for the Managed Health Care Services and Picture Archiving and Communication Service business.
EDUCATION: BS in electrical engineering, Banaras Hindu University; MS in computer engineering, Syracuse University; Ph. D. in computer science, Columbia University.
HOMETOWN: Aligarh, India
CURRENT HOME: New York
(Forwarded by Subhash Shanbhag and Salim Shamshery of 1985 batch)