Lunch with Honors

Dr. Parag Patil is a professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at UMMS. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT, his MD, and PhD from the Medical Scientist Training Program at Johns Hopkins, and completed his neurosurgery residency at Duke University. Before pursuing his medical training, however, Dr. Patil took time off to attend the University of Oxford for two years as a Marshall Scholar where he read philosophy, politics, and economics. In this session, Dr. Patil will share his experiences at Oxford and his decade of experience on the Marshall Scholarship selection committee. (The Marshall Scholarship is one of the most prestigious academic scholarships in the world, along with the Rhodes and Gates-Cambridge Scholarships. It provides full funding for two years of postgraduate study at any university in the UK. Other notable Marshall Scholars include LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, novelist Nicole Kraus, Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Neil Gorsuch, and psychologist Angela Duckworth. You can read more about the Marshall Scholarship and U-M's most recent Marshall Scholars at https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf.)