Dr. Ashutosh Pradhan

BHMS, DMM, PGDCR

Consulting Homeopath & Life Coach

Wellbiance® Wellness Course (Previously known as Healthiance® Quality of Living Program)

Wellbiance® Quality of Living Clinic

105, 1st Floor, Jai Bhawani Apts CHSL, Plot No. 97 (TPS I), Ram Mandir Road, Vile Parle East, Mumbai – 400057, India.

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Mobile: +91 9920070300

Email ID: ashutosh@wellbiance.com

He is practicing homeopathy at Vile Parle East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India since January 1993. Working as a life coach since November 2011.

Family Background

Dr. Ashutosh Chandrashekhar Pradhan is son of C. K. Pradhan and R. C. Pradhan, grand son of Dr. K. G. Pradhan who was practicing at Akola. Most of his family members are doctors.

Education

He passed out 10th – Secondary School Curriculum (SSC) in 1984 from Parle Tilak Vidyalaya, Hanuman Road, Vile Parle East.

Subsequently he passed out 12th – Higher Secondary Curriculum (HSC) from the then Parle College (currently known as Sathaye College) in 1986.

He passed BHMS – Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery in December 1991 and completed the one year full time internship in December 1992 from Venutai Yashwantrao Chavan Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Dasara Chowk, Kolhapur. During the medical college studies he has attended hospitals such as Savitribai Phule Municipal Hospital, Chhatrapati Pramila Raje (CPR) Hospital, Bhausingaji Road, Kolhapur. At these hospitals at the Out-Patient Department (OPD) / In-Patient Department (IPD) / Operation Theatre (OT) / Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) he has seen / observed / treated 10,000 + patients suffering from various non-infectious and infectious diseases. During this tenure he has seen and observed complex diseases such as Deep Vein Thrombosis, Rheumatic Heart Diseases, Pott’s Spine, and many other. He has attended these hospital as student on regular basis from January 1988 till completion of the course – December 1992.

He took clinical training in the field of allopathy under able guidance of Dr. Dinkar M. Karnik (a MBBS family physician) at his clinic at Vile Parle West.

He took training in clinical homeopathy under the able guidance of Dr. B. G. Daptardar at his clinic at Goregaon East.

He did a Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (DMM) in 2002 from Wellingkar Institute of Management.

He did a Post-Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research (PGDCR) in 2005 from Academy of Clinical Excellence, Bombay College of Pharmacy, Kalina, Santacruz East.

Practice

Dr. Ashutosh Pradhan started his practice at Sanjeevani Polyclinic located adjacent to Parle G Biscuit factory of Parle Products Ltd. His consulting hours were 11 am to 1 pm.

Simultaneously he started practice at Adarsh Polyclinic located at Mukund CHSL, Mukund Hospital Campus, Marol Pipeline, Andheri East, opposite to Anmol Society and diagonally opposite to to The Leela, Mumbai. The consulting time at Adarsh Polyclinic was 5 pm to 7 pm.

After couple of months of starting practice at these two locations he started practice at the then Dr. Kusum Doshi’s Polyclinic located at Nehru Road, Vile Parle East. The consulting hours were 7 pm to 9 pm.

In order to help the management of the hospital he worked at Jeevan Vikas Kendra, Sadanand Danait Hospital at Andheri East for one month in the capacity of Resident Medical Officer (RMO). The hospital is equipped with wide range of specialities such as Cardiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Surgery, ENT, Orthopedic, Gastrenterology, Pediatrics, Radiology, etc. The labour room is on the first floor where as the ICCU is on the fifth floor of the hospital. On couple of Sundays he has managed all five floors single handedly a RMO.

· During his tenure as RMO he has diagnosed accurately many clinical conditions. One of the patients was referred to the Jeevan Vikas Kendra Hospital for admission by a MBBS-family physician practicing at Andheri-Kurla road with a diagnosis as Typhoid Fever, when Dr. Ashutosh examined him before admission he noticed no signs and symptoms of enteric fever rather he diagnosed it as a case of Pneumonia which was confirmed by the Honorary MD Chest Physician.

· While serving as a RMO he has reported to Honorary Doctors such as Dr. Shekhar Ambardekar – Cardiologist, Dr. Kalambi – ENT Surgeon, Dr. Naik, Dr. Surekha Dhurandhar – Pediatricians, Dr. Rashmi Fadanvis – Gynaecologist & Obstetrician, Dr. Gholkar – Neurophysician, Dr. Vadgaonkar – Consulting Physician, Dr. T. V. Garud and Dr. Paranjape – General Surgeons and many others.

· The hospital runs a vaccination center on every Saturday between 9 am to 11 am where he has worked as a Medical Officer to certify the child to receive a vaccine as per the National Immunization Schedule. Within the span of two hours he used to examine 100+ pediatric patients to certify fitness for a vaccine. Examining 100+ children for fitness he could hardly spend 10 seconds for each child, yet he was efficient to diagnose diseases such as Mitral Stenosis, Septicaemia and has guided such critical patients for admission to the pediatric ward under a pediatrician’s care from the immunization OPD.

He was attached to VN Desai Municipal General Hospital, Santacruz East as an Honorary Homeopath. He used to attend the OPD on Tuesdays from 1 pm to 3 pm to serve needy and poor patients. He used to examine and treat 40 regular patients and 10 to 15 new patients every Tuesday. He served the hospital as an Honorary Homeopath from 1995 to 2000. He use to teach Clinical Homoeopathy to 2nd, 3rd, 4th year BHMS students at the hospital OPD.

In 1997 he along with Dr. Anjali A. Pradhan started practice at Everest Society, Dombivli West only in the mornings between 10 am to 12.30 pm where either of them use to be available on alternate days. Yet both of them continued the evening practice at Vile Parle.

In 2000 Dr. Ashutosh Pradhan realized that due to commitment of time slots at multiple locations on multiple timings he was not able to give quality time to his patients. Dr. Ashutosh and Dr. Anjali mutually took a decision to shift to a single location that is Tilak Hospital, Ram Mandir Road, Besides Mahalaxmi Temple and Opposite Lokmanya Seva Sangh (Tilak Mandir) at Vile Parle East. The consulting hours were 5 pm to 9 pm.

Till December 2009 both of them were practicing at Tilak Hospital owned by Dr. Tilak. In 2010 they shifted to their self-owned clinic – Healthiance Quality of Living Clinic diagonally opposite to Tilak Hospital situated at Jai Bhawani Apts CHSL, Plot No.97, Ram Mandir Road, Vile Parle East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The consulting hours are controlled strictly by appointment between 10 am to 12 pm, 2 pm to 5 pm, 7 pm to 8.30 pm.

Academic Affiliations

In 1998 he joined Yerala Homoeopathic Medical College and Research Center as a lecturer. During his tenure as a lecturer has conducted many medical camps in the vicinity of Curry Road and Lower Parel and has treated more than 1000 patients from that area. During his tenure at the Yerala Homoeopathic Medical College and Research Center he has taught students subjects such as Human Anatomy – dissection of a cadaver / embryology, Homeopathic Materia Medica, Homeopathic Repertory. He used to conduct clinics for 2nd, 3rd, 4th year BHMS students at the VN Desai Municipal General Hospital, Santacruz East.

Other Affiliations

In 2000 he left the post at the Medical College and he joined the then GoodhealnYou India Pvt. Ltd. a health portal GoodHealthnYou.com in the capacity of Medical Advisor. He had a quantum contribution to the content of the website along. He use to respond at least 100+ patient’s / user’s queries online with regards to health education. Working hours at GoodhealthnYou were 10 am to 5 pm as in the evening from 5 pm to 9 pm he was available for patients.

He left GoodHealthnYou and joined Indegene Lifesystems Pvt. Ltd. in 2002. At Indegene he has contributed his medical knowledge to simplify complex medical jargon to compile CME modules in the form of CDs, DVDs. Working hours at Indegene were 10 am to 5 pm as in the evening from 5 pm to 9 pm he was available for patients.

Founder Affiliations

He left Indegene in April 2003. In May 2003 he started his own private limited company Adroit Insights Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd. The company earlier was involved in the field of medical communication later on it undertook clinical research and finally was winded up in 2008. Working hours at Adroit Insights were 10 am to 5 pm as in the evening from 5 pm to 9 pm he was available for patients.

On February 5, 2004 he along with Dr. Anjali started a partnership firm Healthiance Quality of Living Clinic.

On April 25, 2005 he started another private limited company Scientica Life Sciences Private Limited – www.scientica.com.

The main aim of forming the above non-clinical entities was to simply medicine and to formulate good medical communication so that lay man can understand medical science easily and can take good healthcare decisions.

Workshops

Dr. Ashutosh Pradhan along with Dr. Anjali A. Pradhan has conducted 10+ Stress Management Workshops, Sessions at DHFL, Prasanna HRD’s Mumbai University Group, Spandan Group, Syntel India Ltd., Bharat Forge Ltd.

Vision

Over a period of time Dr. Ashutosh realized that along with homoeopathic treatment nutrition, life coaching, yoga are equally important and will help patients to cure chronic diseases / lifestyle diseases. He has discovered a technique termed as Healthiance.

With such a vast clinical acumen, till date he has treated and cured successfully many patients suffering from acute and chronic diseases. Being exposed to healthcare corporate world and having an experience of handling hospital admission he is a very good homoeopath and wellness life coach to consult to.