{"id":15909,"date":"2022-07-12T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15909"},"modified":"2022-07-12T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:23:11","slug":"from-media-to-medicine-to-apple-health-v-p-sumbul-desais-indian-roots-is-common-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15909","title":{"rendered":"From media to medicine to Apple Health V-P: Sumbul Desai\u2019s Indian roots is common strand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the rebel within her had prevailed, Dr Sumbul Desai would have been a journalist or a media honcho. But after many pivots in her career, the Sweden-born with Indian roots is now one of the most influential women in global tech \u2014 as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/apple\/\" class=\"\">Apple<\/a>\u2019s VP-Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019d never think that all of those stops you are going to make are going to help you with your ultimate role. All that learning ends up putting you exactly where you should be,\u201d Desai told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/\" class=\"\">The Indian Express<\/a>&nbsp;on video call from California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desai joined Apple five years ago to strengthen the Cupertino-based tech giant\u2019s foray into personal health technologies. Before that, she was Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine as well as Associate Chief Medical Officer at Stanford Healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, those early stints with the Walt Disney Company and ABC News still stand out in her impressive resume. \u201cMy parents wanted me to be either a doctor or an engineer,\u201d says Desai. Echoing millions of Indians across the world, her parents, who moved from India to Sweden and then the US, were no different when it came to their children, she points out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the rebel within her had prevailed, Dr Sumbul Desai would have been a journalist or a media honcho. But after many pivots in her career, the Sweden-born with Indian roots is now one of the most influential women in global tech \u2014 as&nbsp;Apple\u2019s VP-Health. \u201cYou\u2019d never think that all of those stops you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=15909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From media to medicine to Apple Health V-P: Sumbul Desai\u2019s Indian roots is common strand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,10,15,19,20,11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-business-economy","category-nris","category-pios","category-records-all-other-excl-asia-india","category-records-india-national","category-science-technology","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15910,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions\/15910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}