Aman Mahajan
Senior Vice President
USC Health / Healthier Capital
Dr. Aman Mahajan serves as Senior Vice President at USC, overseeing innovation across the health system and health sciences schools. An internationally recognized physician-scientist, health system executive, inventor, entrepreneur, and venture leader, Dr. Mahajan has spent his career advancing healthcare innovation, technology, and clinical care transformation.
At USC, Dr. Mahajan is leading efforts to accelerate innovation across health technology, care delivery, and new business models through strategic partnerships with industry, investors, and academic collaborators. He also serves as Professor of Anesthesiology, Urology, and Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His expertise in building and scaling innovative healthcare technologies and services is further reflected in his leadership in Healthier Capital, a global health technology venture fund.
Before joining USC, Dr. Mahajan was a member of the senior executive group at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a nationally recognized healthcare organization with 45 hospitals, a health insurance plan, and a major commercialization platform. As Senior Vice President, Health Innovation at UPMC, he guided enterprise innovation, commercialization, and venture investments, developing several technology-enabled healthcare companies. He also served as the Peter Safar Endowed Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, with professorships in Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering, and led UPMC’s perioperative and surgical service lines as system executive director.
Previously, Dr. Mahajan served as the Ronald Katz Endowed Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at UCLA Health and Executive Director of UCLA Perioperative Services. He was also a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he taught in the MBA program.
Dr. Mahajan has held leadership roles on councils and boards of major international scientific societies. His research, funded by multiple NIH awards, focuses on AI, data science, and healthcare technology. He has authored more than 250 publications and completed his anesthesiology training, cardiac fellowship, and PhD at UCLA, and earned an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management.
At USC, Dr. Mahajan is leading efforts to accelerate innovation across health technology, care delivery, and new business models through strategic partnerships with industry, investors, and academic collaborators. He also serves as Professor of Anesthesiology, Urology, and Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. His expertise in building and scaling innovative healthcare technologies and services is further reflected in his leadership in Healthier Capital, a global health technology venture fund.
Before joining USC, Dr. Mahajan was a member of the senior executive group at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a nationally recognized healthcare organization with 45 hospitals, a health insurance plan, and a major commercialization platform. As Senior Vice President, Health Innovation at UPMC, he guided enterprise innovation, commercialization, and venture investments, developing several technology-enabled healthcare companies. He also served as the Peter Safar Endowed Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, with professorships in Biomedical Informatics and Bioengineering, and led UPMC’s perioperative and surgical service lines as system executive director.
Previously, Dr. Mahajan served as the Ronald Katz Endowed Professor and Chair of Anesthesiology at UCLA Health and Executive Director of UCLA Perioperative Services. He was also a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he taught in the MBA program.
Dr. Mahajan has held leadership roles on councils and boards of major international scientific societies. His research, funded by multiple NIH awards, focuses on AI, data science, and healthcare technology. He has authored more than 250 publications and completed his anesthesiology training, cardiac fellowship, and PhD at UCLA, and earned an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management.
