Santosh Kaur with international leaders

About

Clinician turned AI CEO. Speaker in the room when the stakes are real.

The short version

Santosh Kaur in a boardroom discussion

I started in medicine. I studied to be a doctor in India, then moved to Australia and retrained as a nurse. I spent 16 years at the bedside, watching the same problems repeat because the systems around patients were broken. So I built SmartHeal, an AI platform that helps clinicians assess wounds faster and more accurately.

Along the way, I went from someone who had to walk away from the life she built with sweat, blood, and tears, and start over, to someone who sits on hospital boards, teaches at universities, and advises governments. I did not have a plan. I had a refusal to stop.

If you want polish without truth, I am not the speaker for you.

Credentials

The work behind the words.

Emerging Leader of the YearInternational Women Entrepreneur Award, 2024Australian Technologies Competition finalistAustralian Sikh Woman of the Year finalistWomen in AI APACIABCA 2026 finalist, Business Woman of the Year

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