Digital Health & Imaging is the emerging $280bn healthtech industry. IISc and Talent Sprint has partnered to launch multiple executive programs in emerging and disruptive technologies aimed at helping professionals acquire expertise at the cutting edge of domain and technology on Digital Health and Imaging.
The Indian Institute of Science, India’s leading institution for advanced education and research in sciences and engineering, has signed a multi-year partnership with Talent Sprint. The Advanced Certification Program in Digital Health & Imaging is the first program to be launched under this partnership, starting July 2020. Targeted towards professionals keen to master cutting edge tech solutions in eHealth, personalized healthcare, biotech, medical devices, wearables and digital therapeutics, the six-month program will be offered in a hybrid format suitable for executive education. Applications are now open for the first cohort of select 50 candidates.
Professor Anurag Kumar, Director of IISc, says “Our research and teaching with emphasis on doctoral and post graduate programs are world renowned. The partnership with TalentSprint will allow us to open up executive education to individual learners. The debut program, Advanced Certification Program in Digital Health & Imaging, is at the intersection of data sciences and biomedical sciences. This field has been emerging over the last few years and has gathered serious momentum in the wake of Covid-19.”
Speaking about the Talent Sprint partnership, CCE Chairman Professor G L Sivakumar Babu, said: “This is the first time we will offer our programs in executive format— that combines IISc experience with live interactive sessions on Talent Sprint’s digital delivery platform iPearl. AI. This approach will allow us to scale our offerings and reach learners across the world, retaining teaching effectiveness and learning experience. We are very excited about this partnership, and will look forward to launching several programs over the next few years.”
According to Dr Santanu Paul, Co-Founder and CEO of Talent Sprint, “Partnering with IISc is a great honour and we are humbled. The first program reflects the current reality of acute global disruptions in healthcare, and the demands of the emerging $280bn healthtech industry. This program is ideal for current and aspiring professionals in Clinical Data Science, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, InsureTech, Medical Science and Start-ups for whom digital healthcare will certainly be the new normal.”
The Advanced Certification Program in Digital Health & Imaging will be led by Dr Phaneendra Yalavarthy, Associate Professor at the Department of Computational & Data Sciences, IISc. He will partner with a team of top-tier IISc faculty to teach this course in executive format, starting July 2020. Professionals interested in the Advanced Certification Program in Digital Health & Imaging should apply for selection at https://iisc.talentsprint.com/digitalhealth/.
About IISc: Established in 1909, IISc is India’s leading institution of advanced education and research in the sciences and in engineering. From its beginnings, IISc has laid equal emphasis on fundamental investigations and the solution of practical problems in such a setting. IISc’s reputation and pre-eminence ensures that it attracts the best of young faculty members and students from across the world. IISc aims to be among the world’s foremost academic institutions through the pursuit of excellence in research and promotion of innovation by offering world-class education to train future leaders in science and technology and by applying science and technology breakthroughs for India’s wealth creation and social welfare. https://www.iisc.ac.in/
About Talent Sprint: TalentSprint brings transformational high-end and deep-tech learning programs to young and experienced professionals. The company’s digital platform iPearl.AI offers a hybrid onsite/online experience to seekers of deep technology expertise. TalentSprint partners with top academic institutions and global corporations to create and deliver world class programs, certifications, and outcomes. It is a leading Innovation Partner for the National Skill Development Corporation, an arm of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India. www.talentsprint.com.
