About Karthik Achari

He is the Clinician and Founder of PepMD, an independent standards body developing the credentialing and trust infrastructure for peptide medicine. PepMD credentials clinicians, recognizes compounding pharmacies, and authorizes IRB-governed research sites, and is the first organization he is aware of to bring clinician credentialing, pharmacy recognition, and research site authorization together under a single standard. In July 2026, he delivered oral comments at the Open Public Hearing of the FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee.

Before PepMD, Karthik built and operated businesses across pharmaceutical and peptide manufacturing and distribution, as well as precision diagnostic medicine. That work put him inside the supply chains most people only see the end of, and it shaped the conviction PepMD is built on: quality is a series of decisions someone makes, and in fast-growing corners of healthcare, nobody is checking who makes them. He has fully divested those interests and now runs PepMD full time.

A clinician by training, he is currently completing Bradley University's Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner program.

He has been quoted on peptide policy, compounding regulation, and peptide therapies in national outlets including NBC News and Healthline.