It’s been a year today since the beginning of my chase for corporate success. Until this day last year I was blessed with success and accomplishments as a student. I achieved what I dreamt since childhood, and now past that phase started my run towards the new endeavors and new goals.

I joined a team of extraordinary individuals all holding PhDs, with a proven track record of success and years of experience. This was a lot of pressure in addition to the things happening around. The Office of Clinical Affairs at BlueCross BlueShield Association functions like a startup and without hesitation a core team in that department is ours: The Clinical Platforms Team. We develop new platforms along with creating innovative methodologies to unite all the complex healthcare and medical policy information process to provide meaningful insights to all the blues and the senior executives

The beginning days were very easy, I had friends as my colleagues and everything was going so well. Slowly things started to unfold and new challenges began to show up. It took me a while to grasp the corporate world is pretty different in reporting, requirement and responsibility as compared to the grad school or my  research lab. As months passed I was reminded of this saying time and again “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”.

I’m thankful to the lord for providing the best mentors, best team and the best people as my friends. I hope my journey to corporate success continues for many more years to come and I pray to provide me with an opportunity to assist young lads with the highest aspirations to the best of my abilities, to achieve success.

-Bharat Karumuri