Anantha Shekhar

Shekhar was born on August 31, 1957.^[1] He was born and raised in a small village in India that had no electricity or running water.^[2] Shekhar completed his Bachelor of Science degree at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore and his medical degree at St. John's Medical College^[3] before immigrating to the United States in 1981.^[2] Upon entering the United States, Shekhar completed his PhD in neuroscience at Indiana University.^[3]

Following his PhD, Shekhar remained at Indiana and joined the faculty at their School of Medicine in 1989.^[3] As a professor, Shekhar was named the director of a five-year Clinical and Translational Science (CTSI) Award to support CTSI activities at Indiana.^[4] As the director of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, he was elected president of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science in 2012.^[5] Following this, Shekhar was named an executive associate dean for research affairs at the IU School of Medicine.^[6] In 2018, he was honored with the Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year.^[7]

In 2020, Shekhar was named Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.^[8]