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Shiv Gaglani

About The Author

Shiv Gaglani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis.org, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current & future clinicians as well as their patients and family members.



Shiv’s primary passion is developing innovative and scalable solutions in the fields of healthcare and education. To this end, he curated the Smartphone Physical, which debuted at TEDMED, and the Patient Promise, a movement to improve the clinician-patient relationship through partnership in pursuing healthy lifestyle behaviors. Shiv is also an avid writer who has written two educational books, Success with Science and Standing out on the SAT & ACT. He is a regular contributor to Forbes, which named him to their 30 Under 30 List in 2018.



After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2010 with degrees in engineering and health policy, Shiv began his MD degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (from which he is currently on leave) and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2016. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, snowboarding, skiing, running, and flying.

Books by Shiv Gaglani