Dr. Mohanty is an orthopedic surgery resident at Mass General Brigham through the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Residency Program. A BS/MD graduate, he earned an MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he served as an admissions committee member for three years, reviewing and interviewing applicants. He was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha in recognition of scholarship, leadership, and compassionate patient care.
Before attending the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Dr. Mohanty was accepted to the BS/MD program at The College of New Jersey with New Jersey Medical School, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, and earning the Biology Faculty Award for excellence in academics, service, and research. During his undergraduate years, Dr. Mohanty served as President of the AZ Seven-Year Medical Society and Executive Director for Delta Clinic Health Clinic.
Instead of pursuing the remainder of his BS/MD program at New Jersey Medical School, Dr. Mohanty applied to UPenn School of Medicine and was accepted. During medical school, he served in multiple educational leadership roles, including as an elected representative to the Undergraduate Medical Education Council and Vice President of Medical Student Government, partnering with senior faculty to redesign Penn’s four-year MD curriculum and assessment framework.
Dr. Mohanty’s academic focus centers on translational orthopedic spine research, particularly machine learning–based risk stratification and surgical outcome prediction in adult spinal deformity. He has coauthored more than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts and national and international podium presentations across leading orthopedic and spine journals, including Clinical Spine Surgery, the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, and JOR Spine. His work has been recognized with the Rhodes Prize for Surgical Scholarship, a University of Pennsylvania nomination for the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship, and multiple podium awards from the North American Spine Society and Scoliosis Research Society.
With years of admissions committee experience, Dr. Mohanty understands what top medical schools seek in students. Students that Dr. Mohanty has coached have been accepted to multiple BS/MD programs and medical schools, including the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Thomas Jefferson University, Yale University, Harvard University, UCLA, NYU, Boston University, Tufts University, and others.
In addition to academic medicine, Dr. Mohanty has held consulting roles with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and RTW Investments, applying clinical and scientific expertise to biotechnology innovation and clinical trial optimization. He remains deeply invested in surgical education reform, mentorship in medicine, and leveraging data-driven tools to improve decision-making in both clinical care and the admissions process.
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