Gyan Chetan Moorthy

Born and raised in border town El Paso, Texas, Gyan developed interests in cross-cultural communication and the fair allocation of scarce resources from a young age. He studied linguistics at Dartmouth College and volunteered during terms off with physicians building training and QI partnerships in Mexico and Uganda. In 2018, he interned at the Health Committee at German Parliament, where he learned about the WHO Sustainable Development Goals and European investment in African health infrastructure. After graduating from Dartmouth in 2020, he entered the master's in bioethics program at Columbia University. There, he gained a richer understanding of consensus decision-making and ultimately produced a thesis entitled "Toward a New Consensus on Posthumous Organ Procurement: Some Insights from 'Routine Retrieval' Proposals." Now, as a first-year medical student in Philadelphia, he leads several specialty interest groups and the Penn chapter of Future Doctors in Politics. He plans to complete clinical rotations and projects abroad in his third and/or fourth year.