Eli Cahan

Eli Cahan, from New York, New York, is pursuing a master’s degree in health policy at Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and has one year remaining in the MD program at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Eli worked most recently in pediatric orthopedic research at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and in the past as a summer analyst at Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Infinity Equity Group. At NYU, he is an editor of Agora, the School of Medicine’s arts and literature magazine. He was a Fulbright International Summer Institute Scholar and Angell Scholar at the University of Michigan, received the Paul Kalanithi Writing Award from Stanford School of Medicine, and was a Rudin Fellow in the Medical Humanities at NYU. His work has been featured in Scientific American, PBS, STAT News, Nature, TechCrunch, Forbes, and Business Insider, among other publications.