Wasan Kumar

Wasan Kumar, from Skokie, Illinois, is pursuing an MD/MBA at Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Graduate School of Business. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and minors in public policy and global Asian studies. Wasan aspires to improve healthcare quality and costs by designing new technologies and influencing health policy. He has worked on developing computational tools to improve clinical trial recruitment for rare diseases, reduce rates of hospital readmissions, and increase early diagnosis of congenital cardiac conditions in low-resource settings. Wasan’s writing on health economics has been featured in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and has influenced policy action at both federal and state government levels.