Sevadar Foundation Inc. was founded by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP. He signed the articles of incorporation as incorporator, and he funds the foundation.
His role here is Founder. This page does not list a board roster, an officer slate or a governance chart, because publishing one that has not been verified would be worse than publishing nothing. When there is a documented governance structure to describe, it will be described here and on the transparency pages.
About Dr. Padda
Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is a physician in St. Louis. He is board-certified in anesthesiology, interventional pain management, addiction medicine, obesity medicine and pain medicine, and he holds an MBA and a master’s in health professions education. He practices interventional pain management and metabolic medicine.
That background is the reason this foundation exists in the shape it does. A pain physician who has spent a career at the point where opioid policy, addiction and untreated pain meet arrives at a specific set of conclusions about which harms are being missed — and all three of these programs are versions of the same conclusion. The full biography →
One title correction, stated here because it is regularly gotten wrong. Dr. Padda is Chief Medical Officer of Valor Villages Inc. — a separate 501(c)(3) organization. He is not the chief medical officer of Valor Medica, and Valor Medica is not Valor Villages. The two organizations, kept apart →