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After graduating Stanford (where he was co-President of his class) with a BA/MA in history, attending medical school at UCSF, studying political economics at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship, training in internal medicine at Stanford, and conducting academic research on global health at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Dr. Rajaie Batniji did the next obvious thing (if you live in Silicon Valley): he ditched a promising career in academia to co-found a startup.

Image: Dr. Rajaie Batniji, Co-Founder of Collective Health (Photo courtesy R. Batniji, used with permission.) - http://www.forbes.com

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidshaywitz/2016/03/29/entrepreneurship-as-translation-why-a-rising-academic-physician-left-stanford-for-a-startup/#13bbebd3bb3a