2025 – PAGE 15 – PBR & AVSAR – THE NON-PROFIT CONNECTION

WHAT IS AVSAR? I started a non-profit organization, named AVSAR Inc., at the age of 27 to help support existing non-profit organizations that were already doing great work in slum areas.

After medical school, I spent one year volunteering in the slums of Mumbai. The need for help was profound and conditions were shocking. Six-year-old children worked as child laborers, using their small, agile fingers to make beautifully detailed handiwork. Others spent their days looking for recyclables in garbage dumps.

I bonded with these children. I then created a non-profit organization under the U.S. IRS, called AVSAR. We recruited volunteers from around the world (college students, dentists, doctors, MBA students) to “help where the help was needed.” My personal success stories included the creation of an efficient Western-style clinic for child laborers and the establishment of an adolescent sex-education curriculum.

AVSAR helped thousands of people, but the core volunteer program was shut down in my last year of residency due to lack of funding and my 80-hour workweeks. Even so, the projects and systems created by volunteers live on and continue to help thousands more every year.

In order to re-launch AVSAR, we needed funding. Through Pediatrics Board Review Inc. (a private company) I donated over $50,000 to AVSAR before ever paying myself a penny.

It’s because of my passion for helping people that I created AVSAR, and the passion drives me to help pediatricians through the PBR EXPERIENCE.

I hope that you’re able to use the many resources within the PBR Certification System and the PBR community to EFFICIENTLY study and pass your exam. I very much look forward to being a part of your success. Now let’s get started!