For over 24 years, our co-founder Arun Sharma has lived with kidney disease. Despite accessing top-tier medical care, he discovered too late that CKD progression could be managed with the right interventions. Often, his doctors didn't spend enough time to offer personalized care or discuss potential interventions. Similarly, Dr. Bessant Parker, a primary care physician and Arun's close friend, witnessed patients deteriorating due to delayed appointments and lack of awareness about kidney failure risks. United by their shared experiences, Arun and Bessant founded Reset Kidney Health, driven by the belief that kidney patients deserve better.

Our Story

Our Founders

Reset Kidney Health was founded on deep personal experience with kidney disease—Arun as a patient and Bessant as a doctor. We know kidney disease because we've lived with kidney disease.

Arun Sharma

Co-founder // Co-CEO

Arun served as Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Transformation at Optum. He devised growth strategies for multiple businesses, notably Optum's tech unit with over $12B in revenue. He led several large-scale initiatives to improve the performance of Payment Integrity and Customer Care businesses.

At Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest kidney care company, he helped grow the home dialysis business by redesigning patient education programs. He led growth strategies in key national markets. He was VP Strategy at Modern Health, a mental health startup.

He holds an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Meet Dr. Bessant Parker: Co-founder of Reset Kidney Health

Bessant Parker, M.D.

Dr. Bessant Parker is a physician and health system executive with over 19 years of experience. Most recently, he served as the chief medical officer with Adventist Health in Northern California, overseeing a network of 5 hospitals and multiple ambulatory clinics serving more than 300,000 patients across 3 counties. He created the clinical services strategic plan for the network and directed clinical services, delivering significant value to patients, providers, and payers. He also drove clinical, operational, and financial results of the population health program for Adventist Health.

Throughout his distinguished career, Parker built innovative care delivery models for large patient populations in both not-for-profit and for-profit systems and led several disease management programs including those for chronic kidney disease.

He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Columbia University, the affiliation at Harlem Hospital, and holds an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Co-founder // Co-CEO