In this segment, Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal, current Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Panda Health, and former Director of the Steinberg Center for Simulation and Interactive Learning at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine, sits down with us to discuss the seemingly disparate relation between beauty, synchronicity and innovation in healthcare. A gastroenterological surgeon by training, Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal now leads multiples ventures in the digital health, healthcare innovation, and education sectors.

Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal recalls how a singular experience at the ballet led to a newfound appreciation for the instrumentality and force of beauty and synchronicity. He began questioning what a “well-choreographed system” looks like in the context of clinical care delivery and healthcare systems. How can the concept of beauty, of choreography, synchronicity translate to a beautiful, harmonious experience in medicine and healthcare?

Dr. Rajesh Aggarwal also questions the tie between beauty and innovation – how can innovation embody or translate beauty and synchronicity? Drawing on conceptual examples, notably that of Brownian Motion, Dr. Aggarwal encourages us to think of systems-interactions as cumulations of “creative and unintended collisions.” Out of the seeming randomness of systems, we may find the space for creative and innovative interventions.