Casey Means MD

Dr. Casey Means is an American medical doctor, entrepreneur, #1 New York Times best-selling author, and health educator. She graduated with honors from Stanford University in 2009 and earned her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2014, before completing four years of surgical training in the field of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

She has held full-time biomedical research positions at the National Institutes of Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, New York University, and Oregon Health and Science University, and served as a faculty lecturer at Stanford University. Over the past 15 years she has published scientific peer-reviewed papers in major medical journals, along with numerous health policy op-eds in leading outlets. She is a leader in the field of Medical Humanities – the intersection of art and medicine – serving as the founding Associate Editor of the Medical Humanities section of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. She has published short stories, poems, book reviews, and reflective essays on the practice and art of medicine.