Online event LG DA: How project management helped to recover from a broken leg

Deepa Bhide is a PMP and Medical Doctor from India
She will share her experience with a broken leg and how she recovered using project management skills

Wednesday, 22.2.2023 17:00 CET / 21:30 IST for 90 minutes
Free zoom webinar. You can claim 1 PDU.

As the influential Chinese philosopher Confucius said – “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goal; adjust the action steps.”


Have you ever had a broken leg?

How can you use a project management framework to recover from a broken ankle?

Have you heard how to leverage the project management framework to manage your health goals?


How often have you heard project management being used to solve personal problems? You probably have heard it in the context of refurbishing their home, setting up a home garden, or buying a new car, etc. We often hear the term project management used in work-related contexts to solve business problems or meet business goals.


Project management cuts across industries, and healthcare is no different. The healthcare industry revolves around patient care outcomes, which is crucial.

Dr. Deepa Bhide is a renowned thought leader in the project management domain. She started her career as a pediatrician more than 20 years ago with one goal: to be the best in her profession and serve the community. A few personal incidents changed the course of her career and meant she could not pursue a clinical career, but not her goals.



Deepa met with a devastating ankle fracture that threatened to create a permanent disability. Deepa leveraged her project management knowledge and conceived the recovery project as a “project.” This helped her achieve a satisfactory outcome and spring into action in her daily life!


Would you like to know how she did this? Listen to the insights of Dr. Deepa in conversation with Ravinder Singh, PMI volunteer from PMI Germany Chapter. 

Dr. Deepa Bhide, https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepabhide2000/

Dr. Deepa has over 20 years of professional experience blending medical practice and research with IT and Project Management. She juggles consulting, training, and operations; proficient in clinical medicine, project management, and healthcare information technology. Starting her career as a medical practitioner, she has worked with varied organizations before her current stint as a clinical advisor – at Inventurus Knowledge Solutions.

Her passion for IT and Project Management was born from her day-to-day patient interactions. Deepa's growing interest and work in these areas helped her view Project Management as a backbone of progressive healthcare. Her paper on "Patient Care - A Project Management Perspective" is widely acclaimed, having received global recognition and acclaim. Deepa is an active contributor to PMI with her articles on a cross-domain confluence of Healthcare and Project Management. With a physician background as a solid foundation to leverage IT/PM skills and knowledge, Deepa has blended her broad-based experience and learnings to present a unified, holistic, wholesome view of Project Management and Healthcare. Through various webinars, events, talks, and writings across platforms, Deepa has been an evangelist in championing global project management during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is the author for a series of articles on “Healthcare and Project Management” in PMWorld Journal (https://pmworldjournal.com/). Deepa and her pioneering work in the field of project management and healthcare has been featured by various Project Management Institute(PMI) chapters.

A Gold medalist from Osmania University for standing First in the MBBS course and also for Human Physiology, she went ahead to pursue her DCH in Pediatrics and Child health. Deepa is an active PMI Pearl City Chapter member with their volunteer initiatives. Deepa has served a variety of roles in local and global PMI regions. The part of Council Lead for PMI’s Healthcare Community of Practice for two years (2013-15) involved identifying and mentoring volunteers and collaborating across geographies for knowledge assets. Passionate volunteer leader with the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 15+ years in several global, national, and local roles.
• Represented PMI in HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, Feb 23-27, Orlando, 2014, in the role of Council Leader, PMI's Healthcare Community of Practice (2013-2015).
• Participated in PMI Global Congress & Exhibition North America, San Diego, September 2016 as a designated Subject Matter Expert on healthcare.
• For the PMI Global Summit, Las Vegas in December 2022, presented a very interesting topic on healthcare and leadership titled “Physician’s Prescription for the Great Resignation – Four Chemicals to Boost Effective Leadership.”

Deepa is currently a part of PMI’s Ethics Insight Team (EIT), a global team of 8 volunteers advocating PMI’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Deepa lives in Hyderabad, India, and loves to travel, sing and experiment with global cuisine.