Press Kit

For Journalists, Producers & Editors

Everything you need for your story — in one place.

Bios, headshots, logos, fact sheet, quotable statements, and direct interview access for SurgiQuality and founder Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS. No form required for brand assets. Use what you need.

For custom statements, topic-specific quotes, or scheduling a live interview, use the contact options at the bottom of this page.

Founder Bios

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS — Founder & CEO.

Short and long versions, ready to copy. Suggested attribution: Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS, Founder & CEO of SurgiQuality.

Short Bio · 60 words

For bylines, panel intros, captions.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS is a board-certified neurotologist and cranial-base surgeon with 33 years of solo surgical practice. He is the founder and CEO of SurgiQuality, an Ambulatory Surgery Center operator, and the author of Resetting Healthcare. He founded SurgiQuality to close the surgical-quality information gap he watched repeat itself across patients, surgeons, and payers for three decades.

Long Bio · 180 words

For features, podcast intros, profile articles.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS, was born in New Delhi, India, and immigrated to the United States in 1962 at the age of one. His family traveled on a month-long journey by ship in search of a surgical specialist for a family member — a search for healthcare excellence that became the founding ethos of SurgiQuality. He spent 33 years in solo surgical practice as a board-certified neurotologist and cranial-base surgeon, and is the author of Resetting Healthcare. He also operates an Ambulatory Surgery Center, giving him direct first-hand experience of the facility-side problems SurgiQuality is built to solve. He founded SurgiQuality after watching the same surgical-quality information gaps repeat themselves across patients, surgeons, employers, and payers for three decades — gaps the existing healthcare system had no economic incentive to close. SurgiQuality is built around the patient making the call, with the surgical-outcomes data the system has historically held back.

Headshots

Approved photography.

Right-click any image and choose “Save Image As…” to download. Suggested alt text: “[Name], [Title], SurgiQuality.”

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS

Founder & CEO · Chairman of the Board

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Tonya Hughes

VP Client Relations

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Marshall Besch

Co-Founder & Data Operations

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Thomas Young, MD

Board Member

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Logo Files

SurgiQuality wordmark.

Use the color version on light backgrounds, the white version on dark backgrounds. Do not recolor, distort, or add effects. For print, download the AI/EPS source files via the contact form below.

Color Logo

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White Logo

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CMYK Logo · Print

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📘 Brand Guidelines PDF

Brand Guidelines

Logo usage, clear space, do’s & don’ts

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Brand Colors

Color palette.

When using SurgiQuality brand colors in editorial graphics, please use these hex values exactly.

SurgiQuality Purple

#3727a1 · RGB 55 39 161

SurgiQuality Blue

#009bde · RGB 0 155 222

Purple Dark

#2b1b95 · RGB 43 27 149

Fact Sheet

SurgiQuality at a glance.

Key numbers and reference facts journalists most commonly need. All numbers are current as of this page’s last update.

Years of solo surgical practice by founder Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS

USPTO Utility Patent on SurgiQuality technology

30+

Podcast appearances on surgical quality, patient choice, and healthcare reset

10M+

Lives supported by SurgiQuality partnerships

$500–$1K

Per-employee per-year savings cited for self-funded employers

Pitch competition wins: Pitch-Force, Unicorn North America, Unicorn Global runner-up

Awards & Recognition

What the platform has been validated for.

Patent-protected. Pitch-tested. Globally recognized.

📜USPTO Utility Patent — SurgiQuality technology and underlying methods
🥇1st Place — Pitch-Force Competition
🥇1st Place — Unicorn Pitch Competition (North America Regional, Silicon Valley) · Score 7.70/10
🥈2nd Place — Unicorn Pitch Grand Finale (Global, Silicon Valley)
📺Featured on CBS News and CNN (interview with Mark Preston)
🎙️30+ podcast appearances across healthcare, business, and policy shows

Quotable Statements

On-the-record sound bites.

Pre-cleared founder quotes that journalists may use without further confirmation. Attribute to Sanjay Prasad, MD FACS, Founder & CEO of SurgiQuality.

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For 33 years I watched patients face the most consequential decision of their lives — surgery — without the information their surgeon’s own colleagues use to make referrals. The information exists. It just hasn’t been reaching the people who need it. That’s what we’re fixing.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACSThe Problem

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Patients don’t need to be told which surgeon to see. They need the same information the surgeon’s colleagues use to refer their own family members. Then they’ll choose well.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACSPatient Empowerment

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The surgeons doing the best work have been producing outcomes the system has had no way to surface. The cost of that invisibility falls on patients, every single day.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACSSurgeon Recognition

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Self-funded employers are paying $500 to $1,000 more per employee per year because variance in surgical outcomes is treated as unmeasurable. It isn’t unmeasurable. It’s been politically inconvenient to measure.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACSEmployer / Payer Economics

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The healthcare system has organized itself around protecting facilities and referral patterns. SurgiQuality is organized around the patient — and the data the system has been holding back.

Sanjay Prasad, MD FACSSystemic Vision

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