Business world’s 20 most influential women in healthcare 2022, Outlook Business WOW 2019 (Woman of Worth) and 2014’s ‘Amazing Indian’ award by Times Now, is a parallel healthcare entrepreneur and is the Chief Dreamer and Co-Founder of The Telerad Group, which includes includes Teleradiology Solutions, Telrad tech and RXDX healthcare (a phygital chain of primary care clinics in India) 

She is a US Board certified Pediatric Cardiologist who did her MBBS at Osmania medical college followed by post-graduation at AIIMS, Delhi and Yale University in the US. She was the winner of the ‘Young Clinician Award’ from the American Heart Association and the ‘Best Teacher Award’ at Yale University. She is currently the President of the Pediatric Cardiac Society of India. She has over 200 academic presentations and publications to her credit, runs an e-teaching program for PGs in Pediatric Cardiology and is an inspirational speaker having given over 200 lectures, including several TEDx talks.  

She is also active in the social arena in India where she runs 2 trust funds.  People4people has put up over 600 playgrounds in government schools and the Telrad Foundation provides telemedicine services to poor areas in India that do not have access to high quality medical care.  She sits on the Board of HDFC bank and GSK pharma in India and chairs their Corporate social responsibility Committees. In 2023, Dr Maheshwari and her husband instituted the Kalyanpur-Maheshwari Endowment for Global Health Innovation at the Yale Institute for Global Health.