Manny Sethi

Sethi was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Tennessee at age four. He was raised in Hillsboro, Tennessee by his parents, who were both physicians.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nashvillemedicalnews.com/physician-spotlight-manny-sethi-md-leading-by-example-cms-2836|title=Physician Spotlight: Manny Sethi, MD: Leading by Example|date=2019-01-21|website=Nashville Medical News|access-date=2019-04-30}} His parents immigrated to the United States in 1975 from India. Sethi attended Hillsboro Elementary School and later attended the private Webb School.

After graduating from the Webb School, Sethi attended Brown University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in neuroscience. He graduated magna cum laude in 2000. The following year, Sethi worked with children with muscular dystrophy in Tunisia as a Fulbright Scholar.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nashvillemedicalnews.com/physician-spotlight-manny-sethi-md-leading-by-example-cms-2836|title=Physician Spotlight: Manny Sethi, MD: Leading by Example|date=2019-01-21|website=Nashville Medical News|access-date=2020-01-30}}

Sethi attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 2005. He completed his general surgery internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2006, and completed his residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Surgery Program from 2006 to 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://search.vanderbilthealth.com/doctors/Sethi-Manish|title=Manish K. Sethi, MD {{!}} Vanderbilt Health Nashville, TN|website=search.vanderbilthealth.com|access-date=2019-04-30}}

Sethi returned to Tennessee in 2010 and completed his fellowship in orthopedic trauma at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2011. He currently serves as an associate professor and orthopedic trauma surgeon and the director of the Vanderbilt Orthopedic Institute Center for Health Policy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vumc.org/voi-health-policy/|title=Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy|website=www.vumc.org|access-date=2019-04-30}} Sethi's clinical interests center around the utilization of evidence-based medicine in the treatment of the orthopedic trauma patient.

Sethi has written multiple medical texts, including Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence-Based Approach,{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781461435105|title=Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence-Based Approach|date=2013|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=9781461435105|editor-last=Sethi|editor-first=Manish K.|location=New York|doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-3511-2|language=en|editor2-last=Jahangir|editor2-first=A. Alex|editor3-last=Obremskey|editor3-first=William T.}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319733913|title=Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence-Based Approach|date=2018|publisher=Springer International Publishing|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-73392-0|isbn=9783319733913|s2cid=13745241|editor-last=Sethi|editor-first=Manish K.|edition=2|language=en|editor2-last=Obremskey|editor2-first=William T.|editor3-last=Jahangir|editor3-first=A. Alex}} (first and second editions) and Orthopedic Surgery Examination and Board Review.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aFXUsgEACAAJ|title=Orthopaedic Surgery Examination and Board Review|last=Sethi|first=Manish K.|date=2016-05-02|publisher=McGraw-Hill Education|isbn=9780071832809|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319733913|title=Orthopedic Traumatology: An Evidence-Based Approach|date=2018|publisher=Springer International Publishing|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-73392-0|isbn=978-3-319-73391-3|s2cid=13745241|editor-last=Sethi|editor-first=Manish K.|edition=2|language=en|editor2-last=Obremskey|editor2-first=William T.|editor3-last=Jahangir|editor3-first=A. Alex}}

He has co-authored several articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, including Neurosurgery, Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, Injury, the American Journal of Orthopedics, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Injury and Violence Research, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and others.{{Cite journal|last1=Carter|first1=Bob S.|last2=Ogilvy|first2=Christopher S.|last3=Sethi|first3=Manish K.|last4=Curry|first4=William T.|date=2005-04-01|title=Factors Associated with Outcome after Hemicraniectomy for Large Middle Cerebral Artery Territory Infarction|journal=Neurosurgery|language=en|volume=56|issue=4|pages=681–692|doi=10.1227/01.NEU.0000156604.41886.62|issn=0148-396X|pmid=15792506|s2cid=23357613}}

Sethi and his wife, Maya, founded Healthy Tennessee in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/opportunitylives/2017/04/07/he-already-met-the-president-now-this-rural-doctor-plans-to-reinvent-healthcare-across-america/|title=He Already Met the President. Now This Rural Doctor Plans To Reinvent Healthcare Across America|last=Lives|first=Opportunity|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}} Healthy Tennessee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes health education and provides community training opportunities. Healthy Tennessee was founded with a focus on combating Tennessee's poor national rankings in measurements of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. The organization has also since increased its focus to include the opioid epidemic in Tennessee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wjhl.com/local/healthy-tennessee-challenge-involving-youth-to-fight-opioid-crisis/1836271617|title=Healthy Tennessee Challenge: Involving Youth to Fight Opioid Crisis|last=Lipton|first=Blake|date=2019-03-08|website=WJHL|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-30}}

Healthy Tennessee has traveled across the state providing health screenings to insured, uninsured and TennCare patients. In 2014, Sethi received recognition from the American Medical Association (AMA) for his work in the community and Healthy Tennessee. In 2016, Sethi was recognized as one of HealthLeaders Magazine's "Top 20 Leaders in Medicine".

The organization has also hosted statewide community health summits with hundreds of healthcare stakeholders in Tennessee in attendance. Speakers at these summits have included the U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams,{{Cite web|url=http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Health-Care/2018/03/07/Surgeon-General-addresses-opioid-epidemic-at-Upper-East-Tennessee-Health-Summit|title=Surgeon General addresses opioid epidemic at Upper East Tennessee Health Summit|website=Johnson City Press|date=6 March 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}} former Secretary of Health & Human Services Tom Price,{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2017/06/06/trumps-health-care-chief-pops-up-nashville-cites-real-challenges-across-tennessee/372503001/|title=Trump's health care chief pops up in Nashville, cites 'real challenges' across Tennessee|website=The Tennessean|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}} Senator Marsha Blackburn, former Governor Phil Bredesen, Governor Bill Lee, and former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/blackburn-bredesen-dean-and-lee-speak-at-opioid-summit|title=Blackburn, Bredesen, Dean, Lee Speak At Summit|date=2018-08-24|website=WTVF|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}

In 2017, Sethi was invited by Senator Lamar Alexander to testify before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/08/31/vanderbilt-surgeon-manny-sethi-testify-before-senate-panel-health-insurance/617063001/|title=Vanderbilt surgeon Manny Sethi to testify before Senate panel on health insurance|website=The Tennessean|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}} He was one of five health care professionals to testify in a hearing entitled Stabilizing Premiums and Helping Individuals in the Individual Insurance Market for 2018: Health Care Stakeholders.

Also in 2017, Sethi was invited to the White House for a listening session with President Donald Trump. He was selected as one of eleven health care professionals from across the nation to discuss possible solutions to address difficulties in the health insurance market.{{Cite web|url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/13/tennessee-farmer-surgeon-tell-trump-health-insurance-unaffordable/99130770/|title=Tennessee farmer, surgeon tell Trump health insurance unaffordable|website=The Commercial Appeal|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}

Sethi co-authored the book An Introduction to Health Policy with former-senator Bill Frist, who has served as a mentor for Sethi. Invested in health policy, Sethi founded the Vanderbilt Orthopedic Institute Center for Health Policy in 2010. The mission of the center is to increase physician advocacy for patients by investigating the most pressing issues in American health policy. Sethi and other colleagues at the Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute Center for Health Policy have written over 50 peer-review publications. Over the past few years, the center has implemented a conflict resolution program for children in public schools and community centers around the state.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-04/vumc-vip040914.php|title=Violence intervention program effective in Vanderbilt pilot study|website=EurekAlert!|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/hl20-manny-sethi-md%E2%80%94treating-violence-it-occurs-0|title=HL20: Manny Sethi, MD—Treating Violence Before It Occurs {{!}} HealthLeaders Media|website=www.healthleadersmedia.com|access-date=2019-04-30}}

Sethi served as the National Chairman of the American Medical Association Resident and Fellow Section and has served on the Committee on Publications of the New England Journal of Medicine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.orthojournalhms.org/volume10/hcor/index.asp|title=Orthopaedic Journal at Harvard Medical School - annual publication Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program includes Massachusetts General, Children's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's.|website=www.orthojournalhms.org|access-date=2019-04-30}} He has also written for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and had a monthly health policy column in the magazine AAOS Now.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaos.org/CustomTemplates/Content.aspx?id=22543&ssopc=1|title=Manish K Sethi, M.D.|website=www.aaos.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-30}}{{Cite journal|url=https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm/case/214/defensive-medicine-glowing-with-pain|title=Defensive Medicine: "Glowing" with Pain|last=Sethi|first=Manish|date=November 2012|website=Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

Sethi served as a health policy fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center at Meharry Medical College.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2012/11/gun_violence_in_nash.html|title=Gun Violence in Nashville|date=2012-11-28|website=RWJF|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}} He served as an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College also in Nashville, where he ran a clinic and operating room providing indigent care. He also taught health policy at the undergraduate level at Vanderbilt University, serving as course director for MHS 0199, The Evolution of American Healthcare, an introductory course for college freshmen.https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/...manish-sethi.../DrManishSethiarticle.pdf {{Dead link|date=June 2022}}

As of September 2019, Sethi had donated $1,042 to President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2019/11/20/meet-president-trumps-biggest-middle-tennessee.html|title=Meet President Trump's biggest Middle Tennessee donors of 2019|date=November 20, 2019|accessdate=20 November 2019}}

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On June 2, 2019, Sethi announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate election in Tennessee as a Republican.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/03/manny-sethi-2020-senate-bid-tennessee-republican-lamar-alexander/1292498001/|title=Nashville trauma surgeon Manny Sethi launches 2020 U.S. Senate bid|first=Joel|last=Ebert|website=The Tennessean}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.drmannyforsenate.com/why|title=Why I'm Running - Dr. Manny for U.S. Senate|website=www.drmannyforsenate.com}}

Sethi faced businessman, diplomat, and former state government official Bill Hagerty, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan for two years in the Trump administration. Trump endorsed Hagerty in late 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.williamsonhomepage.com/news/donald-trump-heaps-praise-onto-senate-candidate-bill-hagerty-as-early-voting-begins/article_51bcd932-c88b-11ea-95b9-db1eae2b7591.html|title=Donald Trump heaps praise onto Senate candidate Bill Hagerty as early voting begins|first=Alexander|last=Willis|website=Williamson Home Page|date=17 July 2020 }}

Sethi was endorsed by several current and former Republican members of Congress, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY),{{cite news|last=Ebert|first=Joel|title=Rand Paul endorses Manny Sethi in Tennessee's Republican US Senate primary|url= https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/05/rand-paul-endorses-manny-sethi-tennessee-senate/3157760001/|newspaper=The Tennessean|date=June 5, 2020}} Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX),{{cite web |last1=Sethi |first1=Manny |title=Ted Cruz Endorsement|url=https://www.facebook.com/drmannyforsenate/photos/a.2275783746015359/2603997996527264|via=Facebook |publisher=Dr. Manny Sethi for Senate}} former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC),{{cite web |last1=Sethi |first1=Manny |title=Jim DeMint Endorsement|url=https://www.facebook.com/drmannyforsenate/photos/a.2275783752682025/2600191546907909|via=Facebook |publisher=Dr. Manny Sethi for Senate}} former Rep. Ed Bryant (R-TN-07),{{cite news|last=Butler|first=Chris|title=Former Congressman Ed Bryant Endorses Manny Sethi for Senate|url= https://tennesseestar.com/2020/06/09/former-congressman-ed-bryant-endorses-manny-sethi-for-senate/|newspaper=The Tennessee Star|date=June 9, 2020}} former Rep. John J. "Jimmy" Duncan Jr. (R-TN-02),{{cite news|last=Butler|first=Chris|title=Former Congressman John J. Duncan Endorses Manny Sethi|url= https://tennesseestar.com/2020/07/08/former-congressman-john-j-duncan-endorses-manny-sethi/|newspaper=The Tennessee Star|date=July 8, 2020}} and former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN-03).{{cite news|last=Butler|first=Chris|title=Zach Wamp Endorses Manny Sethi for U.S. Senate|url= https://tennesseestar.com/2020/06/25/zach-wamp-endorses-manny-sethi-for-u-s-senate/|newspaper=The Tennessee Star|date=June 25, 2020}}

Sethi declined to run for Tennessee's 5th congressional district in the 2022 election.{{Cite web |last=Yu |first=Yue Stella |date=November 19, 2021 |title=Manny Sethi, former Republican U.S. Senate candidate, will not run for Congress |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/19/manny-sethi-former-gop-senate-candidate-rules-out-congressional-bid/8653173002/ |access-date=November 19, 2021 |website=The Tennessean |language=en-US}}

Sethi is married to Maya L. Sethi, an attorney in Nashville.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tnvoicesforvictims.org/board/|title=Board of Directors|website=Tennessee Voices for Victims|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-30}} She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law.

Sethi has two children, J.B. and Leela. The family attends McKendree United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.{{Cite web|url=https://mckendreenashville.com/2018/01/|title=January 2018 – McKendree Nashville|date=28 January 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}

Sethi wrote The American Dream in Tennessee: Stories of Faith, Struggle, and Survival in 2015, which details his family's story of immigration to Tennessee and building a life in America. The book also recounts the stories of several of his orthopedic trauma patients.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2016/03/17/vanderbilt-trauma-surgeon-says-faith-family-key-patient-outcomes/81807672/|title=Vanderbilt trauma surgeon says faith, family key to patient outcomes|website=The Tennessean|language=en|access-date=2019-04-30}}

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