Press Kit
Biography, credentials, media topics, downloadable assets, and a direct line for interview requests.
Short biography
Priya D. Vejayan, MD, is a physician, healthcare operations executive, author of Behind the White Coat, and the founder and host of On The Beat MD — a platform where physicians, students, and healthcare leaders learn the leadership, business, advocacy, and financial skills medicine never taught.
Extended biography
Priya D. Vejayan, MD, is a physician and healthcare operations executive. Her clinical training in medicine is paired with years of operating experience inside healthcare organizations — revenue cycle, credentialing, staffing, payer contracting, and the margin decisions that shape how care is delivered. She is the author of Behind the White Coat, the host of the On The Beat MD podcast, and the founder of On The Beat MD, an education platform for physicians, students, and healthcare leaders. She speaks and writes on the business, leadership, policy, and technology realities of modern medicine.
She founded On The Beat MD after noticing that the most useful conversations in medicine — about contracts, compensation, operations, leadership, burnout, and leaving or staying — happen in hallways and after hours, and almost never in a classroom. The platform brings those conversations into the open through long-form interviews, written analysis, and practical, downloadable tools built from real negotiations and real operating decisions.
Her work sits at the intersection of clinical reality and healthcare business: what physicians are trained to do, and the system that decides how they get to do it. She is a consistent advocate for physicians having a genuine voice in the business, policy, and technology decisions made about their work.
Credentials and current roles
Priya D. Vejayan, MD, is a physician and healthcare operations executive. Her clinical training in medicine is paired with years of operating experience inside healthcare organizations — revenue cycle, credentialing, staffing, payer contracting, and the margin decisions that shape how care is delivered. She is the author of Behind the White Coat, the host of the On The Beat MD podcast, and the founder of On The Beat MD, an education platform for physicians, students, and healthcare leaders. She speaks and writes on the business, leadership, policy, and technology realities of modern medicine.
- Founder and Editor-in-Chief, On The Beat MD
- Host, the On The Beat MD podcast
- Author, Behind the White Coat
- Healthcare operations executive
- Physician advocate and speaker
Recognized by Influential Women.
What On The Beat MD is for.
A platform where physicians, students, and healthcare leaders learn the leadership, business, advocacy, and financial skills medicine never taught.
On The Beat MD publishes education, not advice: long-form interviews, written analysis, and practical tools built from real contracts, real operating decisions, and real negotiations.
Every item is sourced, attributed, and reviewed before publication, and opinion is kept structurally separate from reporting.
Read the editorial standardsOn The Beat MD and Trident Heart & Vascular
Dr. Vejayan's clinical and operational work is associated with Trident Heart & Vascular. On The Beat MD is a separate education and media platform that she founded and owns. The two are distinct: Trident Heart & Vascular delivers patient care; On The Beat MD publishes education for clinicians and healthcare leaders.
Editorial independence: Trident Heart & Vascular does not commission, review, approve, or edit anything published on On The Beat MD. No clinical employer, sponsor, or partner sees editorial material before publication.
Conflict-of-interest transparency: where a topic, guest, product, or organization touches Dr. Vejayan's clinical practice, employment, ownership, or any financial interest, that relationship is disclosed inside the item itself, before the content. Sponsored or paid placement is always labelled as such.
Nothing on On The Beat MD is patient care, and nothing here creates a physician-patient relationship. Patient enquiries should go to the relevant clinical practice, not to this platform.
Media topics.
The business of medicine physicians were never taught
Contracts, compensation models, restrictive covenants, and the economics behind a clinical job.
Healthcare operations from the inside
Revenue cycle, denials, credentialing, staffing, and how operating decisions reach the bedside.
Physician burnout, autonomy, and retention
Why clinicians leave, what actually keeps them, and the structural drivers behind both.
Clinical AI and health technology adoption
Evaluating vendors, governance, and where automation helps or harms clinical work.
Physician leadership and advocacy
Building a voice in policy, payer, and boardroom conversations about clinical work.
Medical education and early-career transitions
Student to resident to attending: the practical skills that sit outside the curriculum.
Formats
- Podcast and long-form audio interviews
- Broadcast and streamed video segments
- Panel moderation and fireside conversations
- Written commentary, quotes, and background briefings
- Conference keynotes and workshops
Press assets.
Headshots and the speaker/media one-sheet are cleared for editorial use with credit to On The Beat MD.
Portrait — high resolution
JPEG, 2000px wide. Credit: Priya D. Vejayan, MD / On The Beat MD.
Download headshotPortrait — web resolution
JPEG, 1000px wide. Credit: Priya D. Vejayan, MD / On The Beat MD.
Download headshotSpeaker & media one-sheet
Bio, roles, topics, formats, disclosure, and contact — branded PDF.
Behind the White Coat
Priya D. Vejayan, MD
Behind the White Coat gathers the lessons that arrive after medical school — contracts, money, leadership, operations, and the cost of staying in the profession. It is written for the physician who has mastered medicine and is now handed a career built on subjects that never appeared on a single exam.
Approved cover art and press-ready book assets are available to media on request.
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