Maninder “Mini” Kahlon, PhD

Maninder “Mini” Kahlon, PhD is a systems and behavioral neuroscientist who has spent the past two decades in academic medicine improving how we translate science to real world outcomes. Dr. Kahlon is the co-founder and CEO of Beheld and was a founding Vice Dean at Dell Medical School in Austin, where she helped build a new center for academic medicine, founded the biomedical translation hub and developed the institution's focus on population health. She continues to mentor students while acting as Director of Factor Health Labs in the Dept of Population Health at Dell Med/UT Austin. Dr. Kahlon's research focuses on community-based clinical trials and how social support can propel clinically relevant outcomes of better disease management.