Rishi Desai

Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician at Stanford University and serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Osmosis. He recently led the Khan Academy Medicine team, which put together a collection of videos and questions for students entering the health sciences.

With the help of his parents and teachers, Rishi completed high school and received his BS in Microbiology from UCLA by the age of 18. He completed his medical training at UCSF, pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, and did an infectious disease fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He earned his MPH in epidemiology at UCLA, and then spent two years chasing down infectious disease outbreaks for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, before beginning his work in online medical education.

In his spare time, Rishi enjoys watching his son torment the family dog, while eating nature’s finest fruit - the raspberry!