Dr. Sam Pitroda serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chancellor of the Institute of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU), a private university located in Bengaluru, India. In this role, he focuses on modernizing India's healthcare system by integrating traditional health sciences and practices with Western scientific approaches and technologies. TDU aims to bridge the gap between these two domains through an epistemologically informed framework, enhancing healthcare delivery and education in the country