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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Vijay Mehta Dr. Mehta is retired as Chief of General Vascular & Thoracic Surgery from Central Texas Veterans Health Care System. For his involvement with the youth across the nation, he is widely known as Vijay Uncle, the coolest Desi uncle. He is a motivational speaker addressing issues affecting Desi families. He has personally counseled hundreds of youth and has personally registered more than 20,000 Desis to the Bone Marrow Registry. Please feel free to contact him at vijayvip@aol.com.
Vinit Doshi Vinit is a U.S.born, aspiring Jain with an interest in promoting the message of Jain dharma to the new generation of youth. He has taught at Pathshala and spoken at past YJA Conventions on a range of topics. Vinit studied statistics and liberal arts at The University of Michigan and The University of California at Berkeley. Vinit works in the field of marketing analytics and consulting, and lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.
Zeeshan Ali Zeeshan completed his doctorate degree in molecular biology from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, in Frankfurt, Germany. He completed a postdoc at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from and at The University Piemonte Orientale, in Novara, Italy. He joined the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine in 2012 as a research fellow to promote human-based research methods to study diabetes, and is currently heading the Kickstart India program to promote a plantbased diet.
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YOUNG JAINS OF AMERICA
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