Rajiv Sethi, MD

UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical and Scientific Committee Chair (San Francisco, CA)

Dr. Rajiv Sethi received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He was a Fulbright scholar in Public Health in Israel and Jordan. He completed a fellowship in Complex Spinal Surgery/Scoliosis and Deformity at the University of California, San Francisco after completing his residency at Harvard where he was chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.

He serves on the board of the Scoliosis Research Society and has published 47 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters about spinal conditions and treatment since 2014. He edited two textbooks on safety and value-based strategies in the care of orthopedic and neurosurgical patients, both published in 2019. He is a full clinical professor of health services research at the University of Washington. Dr. Sethi holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics from Radboud University in the Netherlands and was a Fulbright Scholar in Public Health.