Profile · Who is Dr. Ashwani Dhar?
MD, DMI · Chairman & CEO, ThinkRoman Ventures
Dr. Ashwani Dhar MD, DMI — physician-entrepreneur, CEO & Chairman, ThinkRoman Ventures; CEO, Kairos R&D Solutions; founder, TrPharma. Former CMIO at Cerner (now Oracle Health).
NoteThis page is about Dr. Ashwani Dhar MD, DMI, physician-entrepreneur and CEO & Chairman of ThinkRoman Ventures (Fremont, California). He is not the Ashwani Dhar who is CEO of the VIA Institute on Character and formerly CEO of Adlucent.
Who is Ashwani Dhar?
Ashwani Dhar (Dr. Ashwani Dhar MD, DMI) is a physician-entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of ThinkRoman Ventures, a health-tech venture studio. He also serves as CEO of Kairos R&D Solutions, a clinical research organization (CRO) based in Hyderabad, and founded TrPharma, a doctor-led pharmaceutical company. He is also founder and president of Avenida.
Under the ThinkRoman umbrella, his portfolio spans Kairos R&D Solutions, TrPharma (maker of KashMOX 625, One87 Plus / 880 PLUS, and KashCAL PLUS), OpenAccess Navigator (a free mental wellness screening tool), and Plenty (a GLP-1 companion app).
He holds an MD and a postgraduate diploma in Medical Informatics (DMI) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, with executive training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before founding ThinkRoman, he spent over a decade at Cerner in senior physician executive roles, including Chief Medical Informatics Officer.
He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA.
He mentors healthcare startups through the UCSF California Health Hub and supports philanthropic work focused on expanding access to healthcare around the world.
“As a clinician, and then spending more than a decade inside healthcare’s biggest systems, I learned exactly where the opportunity is — where we can make a difference. So I’ve spent the years since building the tools that close those gaps, one product at a time.”
Dr. Ashwani Dhar
Career
ThinkRoman Ventures
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Kairos R&D Solutions
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TrPharma
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Avenida
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Cerner (now part of Oracle Health)
10+ years
ITWorks-West (Cerner)
Frequently asked
Dr. Ashwani Dhar MD, DMI is a physician-entrepreneur, CEO & Chairman of ThinkRoman Ventures, CEO of Kairos R&D Solutions, and founder of TrPharma. He is a former CMIO at Cerner (now Oracle Health), holds an MD and a postgraduate diploma in Medical Informatics (DMI) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA.
ThinkRoman Ventures is a health-tech venture studio founded by Dr. Ashwani Dhar, who serves as its CEO & Chairman. Its ecosystem spans clinical research (Kairos R&D Solutions), doctor-led pharma (TrPharma), and AI healthcare platforms.
Kairos R&D Solutions is a clinical research organization (CRO) based in Hyderabad. Dr. Ashwani Dhar serves as its CEO, leading patient recruitment, clinical trial management, and pharmacovigilance under the ThinkRoman Ventures umbrella.
TrPharma is a doctor-led pharmaceutical company founded by Dr. Ashwani Dhar. It manufactures affordable medications including KashMOX 625 (Amoxicillin Clavulanate), One87 Plus / 880 PLUS (Aceclofenac Paracetamol), and KashCAL PLUS (Calcium + Vitamin D3).
Dr. Ashwani Dhar holds an MD and a postgraduate diploma in Medical Informatics (DMI) from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, with executive training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He previously served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) at Cerner (now part of Oracle Health).
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