Dheera Ananthakrishnan

MD, MSE, MBA, MCI

Dheera Ananthakrishnan, MD, MSE, MBA is an experienced orthopaedic spine surgeon, retired from full time clinical practice in 2023, with over 20 years of academic practice in complex spinal deformity surgery, most recently at Emory University. She was voted one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors 6 times. While at Emory, she started a women’s multidisciplinary clinic, bringing the fields of orthopaedics, physical therapy, medicine, endocrinology, psychology and pain management together to treat patients.

Dheera is also a co-founder of Orthopaedic Link, a non-profit whose mission is to leverage idle, usable surplus from orthopaedic implant companies to provide surgeons, hospitals, and NGOs in low and middle-income countries with equipment specific to their surgical needs.

Dheera completed her Executive MBA at MIT Sloan in 2023, having previously obtained her undergraduate degree from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. She also has a Masters in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, and obtained her medical degree from Albany Medical College in NY. She is actively mentoring at Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, and Babson College.

Dheera is currently seeing patients with the startups Motion MSK and General Medicine. She recently completed the Material Change Institute Venture Fellowship, during which she was introduced to Creative Destruction Lab. She is currently consulting in the healthtech space and advising and investing in healthtech startups. Currently based in Los Angeles, she is an avid tennis player, hiker, traveler and foodie!