This husband and wife
team combined their
specialties and strengths
to grow their practice
from one employee to a
team of 30 in less than
four years.
���THE FIRST THREE YEARS WERE PASSION and growth; now we���re
focused on organization,��� says dermatologist Sonia Badreshia-Bansal, MD, of Elite MD, the joint
dermatology-plastic surgery practice she launched in 2009 with her husband, plastic surgeon Vivek
Bansal, MD. In less than four years, the couple has grown their Danville, California-based practice
from one location with one employee to three locations with a team of 30.
The couple met as undergraduates on the ���rst day of orientation at the University of California,
Riverside, and found they had a lot in common. ���We���re both Indian. We come from families that
are very community-oriented and both sets of our parents came to the United States in 1980 when
we were four years old,��� says Dr. Bansal. The two also had a similar goal to enter medicine and,
speci���cally, pediatrics. However, they would each gravitate toward different specialties during their
time together at the Penn State College of Medicine.
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