Sanjeev Arora, MD, MACP, FACG (born September 1956), an Indian American physician, is the founder and director of Project ECHO, a global tele-mentoring nonprofit dedicated to disseminating knowledge in rural and under-resourced communities. Created in 2003 to share expert medical knowledge, the ECHO model builds communities of practice by connecting experts and local providers through free, ongoing virtual mentoring and education. Dr. Arora is also a distinguished professor and regents' professor of medicine, director of the Office of Clinical Affairs, and executive vice chair for the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Arora developed and implemented the Hepatitis C Disease Management Program at UNM HSC. Education Dr. Arora received a premedical degree from Maharajah College in Jaipur, India, followed by his medical degree at the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune and an internship at Army Hospital, Delhi. He completed several residencies, first in medicine at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, then for surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, returning to medicine at the Sisters of Charity Hospital, State University of New York in Buffalo. He completed his fellowship in gastroenterology at the New England Medical Center in Boston. Career Following his studies, Dr. Arora began his career in academia in 1987 as an assistant professor of medicine at Tufts University. In 1993, he moved to UNM HSC where he served in various positions, including section chief of gastroenterology, associate professor, chief of medical staff, director at the Office of Clinical Affairs, executive vice-chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, and distinguished professor of medicine. In 2019, Dr. Arora was promoted to distinguished and regents' professor of medicine. While working as a liver disease specialist, Dr. Arora was frustrated that he could treat only a fraction of the more than 28,000 New Mexicans with hepatitis C. At the time, his clinic's wait list to see patients was eight months, and many patients lived in rural communities with little to no access to the clinic. As a result, people were dying of this treatable disease. In response, Dr. Arora created Project ECHO to share his expertise with primary care providers in rural communities. His first ECHO program resulted in 21 new centers of excellence equipped to treat hepatitis C across New Mexico. Project ECHO Launched in 2003, Project ECHO is a guided-practice model that