Dr Ranga Krishnan is Senior Advisor to the Rush University System for Health in Chicago. He was previously Dean of Rush Medical College, and Chief Executive Officer of the Rush University System for Health. Ranga advanced the innovation of care delivery by organising providers around patients, diseases and conditions rather than by department or division to enable greater multidisciplinary collaboration. He also remodelled Rush’s innovation and technology strategy, including the Innovation and Technology Transfer Office which manages Rush’s intellectual properties.
Prior to Rush, Ranga was Dean of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, where he developed a teaching method called Team LEAD (Learn, Engage, Apply, Develop) which has since been adopted by other universities and high schools.
Ranga is a member on Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC) Human Health and Potential International Advisory Committee. He also previously served as Chairman of the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) in Singapore.
