• 2004: HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR: TECHNOLOGY REVIEW NAMES VIKRAM SHEEL KUMAR, HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR

NRI doctor is one of the 2005 Ten Young Outstanding Americans (TOYA Awards)

NRI (non-resident Indian) Dr. Vikram Sheel Kumar has been named as one of the 2005 Ten Young Outstanding Americans (TOYA Awards) by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Vikram is the first (NRI) American of Indian origin to have been selected for this esteemed 2005 TOYA award. The 67th TOYA annual awards presentation will be held on September 17th 2005 at the World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

TOYA award: It is one of the oldest and most prestigious recognition programs in the world. The Junior Chamber of Commerce of the US set up the award in 1938 to felicitate 10 young Americans of 21-40 years of age for their contribution to the society

Some of the earlier recipients of this honor include Bill Clinton, John D. Rockefeller, John F. Kennedy, Henry Ford, Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Henry Kissenger, Christover Reeves, David Copperfield, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, Arthur Ashe, Jessie Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Howard Hughes and William Webster. In TOYA's selection process, nominee accomplishments and contributions are judged in relation to the Jaycee Creed: That earth's great treasure lies in human personality, and that service to humanity is the best work of life

Dr. Vijay Sheel Kumar

• Vikram moved to the US in 1996. After graduating from Modern School in New Delhi, Vikram went to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and subsequently Columbia University, after which he joined Harvard Medical School and MIT. He is also the recipient of 'Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans', a founding fellow of Media Lab Asia, run at MIT with support from Indian government, and a member on the advisory board of the Global Emerging Technology Institute (GETI)
• Vikram was earlier named among the 'World's 100 Top Innovators Under 35' in biotechnology and medicine by the prestigious Technology Review magazine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Dr Vikram Sheel Kumar, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dimagi: Founded Dimagi in Boston to develop interactive software that motivates patients to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and AIDS. .
• Vikram, 29, who is an alumnus of Modern School and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, and the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts
• In 2004, 'Technology Review', the prestigious publication of MIT, named him as one of the world's 100 top innovators under age 35 in biotechnology and medicine for his contribution in erasing the boundaries between life sciences and information technologies.
• He also received the prestigious "Technology in the Service of Humanity" award in 2004 from 'Technology Review', for his pioneering work's potential to transform the world.

  Dimagi Inc:

• Vikram Sheel is the co-founder, CEO and president of Boston based Dimagi Inc, where clinical interfaces, health information systems and mobile technologies are designed to manage global disease.
• It was founded on the principle that high-quality information is a prerequisite to high-quality healthcare. It creates a new generation of information tools and infrastructure that will ultimately improve the quality of healthcare available to anyone, anywhere in the world.
• It also build systems upon power efficient and practically robust hardware platforms that range from mobile phones toPCs. His company is deploying systems South Africa, Zambia, Rwanda and in India,.
• He helps people in the US through his clinic Dimagi Inc.

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