Born in Scotland and educated in Illinois, Dr. Siddique decided to get an MBA at the University of Southern California before doing a fellowship in neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai. He saw medicine changing and wanted to remain an independent surgeon rathe...

At age 12, Tom Knapp broke his elbow and was fascinated that surgeons could repair the problem he saw in the X ray. He knew then he wanted to be a doctor, and as he went through his education, settled on orthopedics.

Born and raised in Hilo on the big island of Hawaii, Dr. Kim Carvalho knew by the age of six she loved animals. By age 9, she was volunteering at the local veterinarian’s office and saw her life’s path set out before her.

At age six, Dr. Allison’s family moved from Iran to Texas. He attended Medical School at Baylor College of Medicine and got his MBA at the same time. When he did his residency at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center,

A native Angeleno, Dr. Tracy Zaslow is the director of the sports concussion and sports medicine programs at Children’s Orthopedic Center. She pioneered the field of primary care pediatric sports medicine, becoming one of only two such doctors in the L...

Even before medical school, Dr. Kim knew he wanted to make a difference through research – to make discoveries that create improved treatments. It seemed to him that in oncology there was a lot of room for making new discoveries with a deadly disease t...

Born in Taiwan and raised in Canada, Dr. Janie Grumley became a champion figure skater before beginning her training to become a surgeon. She chose breast cancer as her field of specialization and learned the advanced procedure of oncoplasty – removing...

Born in Los Angeles, Dr. Sanjay Khurana at first thought he might become a neurosurgeon, but quickly fell in love with the robust recoveries orthopedic spine surgeries produced. After a childhood in Saudi Arabia he attended UC Berkeley,

Dr. Chris Vincent was an elite 800-meter runner at UCLA before becoming a sports chiropractor. He was an Olympic team doctor many times as well as the team doctor for the World Cup Track and Field Championships. From 2002 to 2008,

Dr. Harold Kraft spent two decades as a hospital-based anesthesiologist at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.  His undergraduate degree was in BioEngineering from the University of Pennsylvania,