Dr. Teena Shetty : A Life Guided by the Mind and Shaped by Service

“These things that we do all come from the brain.”

Hippocrates wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, in his work On the Sacred Disease. In a time when illness was believed to be divine punishment, he offered a radical idea. He taught that joy and sorrow, sight and sound, courage and fear, even madness itself, arose not from the gods but from the brain. He saw it as the body’s great interpreter, the source of wisdom and of suffering alike. To understand the brain, he believed, was to understand the human condition.

Dr. Teena Shetty has devoted her life to this understanding.

Dr. Teena Shetty

Triple board-certified in neurology, she serves as Director of the Concussion Program in Neurology at the Hospital for Special Surgery and as Associate Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her clinical work focuses on sports neurology, concussion care, and intraoperative neuromonitoring. These are fields that demand not only technical mastery but profound responsibility, for within them lie questions of memory, identity, and future.

Her path into medicine continues a longer family story.

Dr. Shetty is the granddaughter of Mulki Sunder Ram Shetty, whose life reflected a legacy of leadership, service, and compassion. From him came a belief that achievement must always be accompanied by contribution and that knowledge must serve humanity. In Dr. Shetty’s career, this inheritance finds new expression. Where one generation served through the leadership of a bank, the next serves through leading a team to work together to heal.

Her professional journey has carried her into the demanding world of elite sport, where strength and vulnerability meet. She currently serves as neurologist for the New York Mets and the New York Liberty and has worked as an unaffiliated Neuro Trauma Consultant and independent neurologist for the New York Giants. In these roles, she does more than treat injury. She safeguards futures. She ensures that ambition does not eclipse well-being and that excellence is never pursued without care.

In 2011, Dr. Shetty was recognized in Crain’s New York Business “40 Under Forty” for her professional excellence and leadership. Yet her relationship with BANA reaches back much earlier. As a high school student, she received the KM Shetty Memorial SAT Scholarship, a moment that now reads as an early sign of a life shaped by discipline and purpose.

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What distinguishes Dr. Shetty’s work is its clarity of meaning. The brain is not simply an organ to be repaired. It is the source of thought and feeling, of memory and choice. To care for it is to care for the whole person. In the field of concussion medicine, especially, her work reflects a deep respect for the fragility of human potential and a commitment to preserving it.

Her life forms a bridge between generations. It carries forward a family legacy of service into the language of modern science. It shows how tradition does not remain still but moves forward through new disciplines and new forms of care.

Today, we honor not only Dr. Teena Shetty’s achievements, but what they represent. A devotion to healing. A commitment to knowledge. A belief that excellence must always walk beside compassion.

BANA extends its heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Teena Shetty, with pride in her journey and with warm wishes for her continued work in advancing neurological care and in serving humanity with wisdom and grace.