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I grew up surrounded by healthcare

- it’s the only world I have really
known. Conversations around patients,

technology and innovation were always
a part of everyday life in my family.

DEVIKA GHOLAP
Chief Product Officer, OptraSCAN

The Digitization of Diagnosis
You have spoken about the goal of ‘replacing the
Devika Gholap is Co-founder and Chief Product Officer microscope’ with digital pathology. Can you describe the
at OptraSCAN, a global health-tech company focused moment or conversation that first planted the seed for
on affordable, AI-enabled digital pathology solutions. OptraSCAN, and why that problem felt urgent to you
She brings deep experience across medical devices, personally?
product strategy and healthcare investing, having The thought really began with a simple observation.
worked with organizations such as Medtronic, BD and Everything else in the world has been digitized, but the
healthcare-focused investment firms. microscope, a 200-year-old invention, has barely evolved.
Pathologists still rely on a physical instrument that limits
She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School collaboration, consistency and access.
and a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston
University. For me, the urgency became deeply personal when my
grandmother went through a cancer diagnosis. Watching
her journey made me realize how critical timely and reliable
diagnostics are, and how easily technology could bridge the
gaps that exist in traditional pathology. I couldn’t shake the
feeling that if we had a digitized, consistent platform at that
time, her outcome might have been different.

That became my ‘why’, and it continues to guide every
innovation we build at OptraSCAN.

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