Welcome to IMANE



Dr. Prasad Srinivasan He has served on several committees and as Chair of the AAPI CME Program in Argentina and Brazil. Dr. Srinivasan is a member of the Connecticut Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (CAPI), its recent Past President and a Trustee. He is known to IMANE as he often comes from Hartford to attend our activities. Dr. Srinivasan is a practicing allergist and has been active in civic affairs in Conn. These include Chair, Health Advisory Committee, Public Health Foundation of Conn.; Chair of Hartford County Medical Society; Past Chairman of Finance Committee for the Council on Interreligious Understanding ; and Past Chair of Conn. Valley Hindu Temple Society. He has participated in the AAPI Charitable Foundation, and established with his wife the Prasad Family Foundation to support higher education. His services have been recognized by the Governor of Conn. and the Mayor of Hartford.



Dr. Janine Saldanha Dr. Saldanha has been a long-term member of IMANE. She has served as a New England Regional Director to AAPI, was Co-Convener of the AAPI Convention in Boston in 1991, is Past-President of IMANE and was a Trustee. She was involved in setting up free charitable clinics within the region. Dr. Saldanha has also been active with AAPI and serves as the Chair of Ethics and Grievance Committee, as well a member of the Bylaws and Publications Committee among others. In addition, she is very involved with the Mass Medical Society, is a delegate for Suffolk District Medical Society, and is on the IMG Executive Committee and on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Medical Library. A Board Certified Anesthesiologist at Mass Eye and Ear and Mass General Hospital, Dr. Saldanha is also very involved in a variety of community services initiatives. She has participated in the Rotary Club, and she has served as President of the Indian American Forum for Political Action, Chair of WGBH TV Boston Community Advisory Board and volunteering as an anesthesiologist to Rotoblast Corrective Surgery mission to South America. In addition, she recently helped organize the candlelight vigil for Mumbai terrorism victims in Boston.



	Dr. Sahdev Passey Chair, Board of Trustees Sahdev Passey, MD, the current Chair of the Board of Trustees, is a graduate of Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, India. He arrived in the U.S. in 1973 and has spent his professional career in the Worcester area, first as a pediatric resident at Worcester City Hospital, and subsequently as a Fellow in Ambulatory Pediatrics at Memorial Hospital in Worcester. He has been in private practice of pediatrics in Worcester since 1978. Dr. Passey is, or has been, an active volunteer with numerous professional and social organizations, including: Director of Free Health Stop in Shrewsbury, MA; Chair, India Society of Worcester; Chair, Board of Trustees of Indian American Forums for Political Education; Board of Director of the Deveroux School; and Vice Speaker of AAPI. He also is a Community Trustee, United Way of Central MA, and Delegate to the MMS from the Worcester District Society. His efforts have been highly recognized. He has received the MMS Community Physician of the Year Award from the Worcester District Society, a key to the City of Worcester, and a Governor’s Citation for his Community Service in Massachusetts.



	Profile: Dr. Geeta Trivedi President-Elect, IMANE Geeta Trivedi, MD, graduated from BJ Medical College, Amdavad, Gujarat, India, and soon after started a career in anesthesiology since coming to the U.S. in 1971. She received her anesthesiology training from Cambridge City Hospital and was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard University. She has been on the staff of Malden Hospital and Santa Maria Hospital in Cambridge and currently works at the Same Day Surgical Center in Fall River, MA, as an anesthesiologist. Dr. Trivedi is married to Rajendra Trivedi, MD, who is a psychiatrist in Stoneham, MA, and a member of IMANE. She was Treasurer of IMANE for two years and has volunteered with her husband and their families working with the Blind People’s Association in Gujarat, India.