1. Zubin Damania was born on April 23,1973 and is an American physician, assistant professor, comedian, internet personality, and musician.
23 Facts About Zubin Damania
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Zubin Damania has been writing and performing comedic raps as ZDoggMD, an internet celebrity known for his music videos, parodies, and comedy sketches about medical issues, as well as systemic issues with healthcare.
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Zubin Damania was then the founder of Turntable Health, a direct primary care clinic in Downtown Las Vegas that was funded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
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Zubin Damania was born on April 23,1973 in New Jersey to Indian parents, and grew up in Clovis, California, to which his family moved when he was eight years old.
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Zubin Damania's parents were both Parsi by ethnicity from Pune, Maharashtra and doctors by profession.
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Zubin Damania's father was a private practice primary care doctor and his mother was a psychiatrist.
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Zubin Damania attended Clovis West High School, graduating in 1991.
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Zubin Damania then went on to receive an undergraduate degree at University of California, Berkeley, where he minored in music and majored in molecular biology and cell biology.
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Zubin Damania attended medical school at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and graduated in 1999.
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Zubin Damania gave the commencement speech at UCSF at his graduation, which has had tens of thousands of views on YouTube and made NPR's list of top commencement speeches of all time.
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Zubin Damania completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford University School of Medicine, from 1999 to 2002.
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Zubin Damania simultaneously maintained a side hobby performing stand-up comedy for medical audiences worldwide.
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Disheartened by the traditional fee-for-service model on which the American medical system is based, Zubin Damania became increasingly frustrated with his work.
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Zubin Damania developed a persona called ZDoggMD, fashioned as a gangsta rapper who was upset about popular misconceptions of healthcare in the US.
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Zubin Damania's speech was called one of the best of the conference.
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Since beginning work on the clinic, Zubin Damania has been named one of the "top 14 people to watch in 2014" by Las Vegas Weekly, and has been profiled in The Atlantic Monthly, Xconomy, Wired, Venture Beat, Gizmodo, MSNBC, and USA Today.
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Zubin Damania spent time reading anti-vaccination groups online and the few medical experts who were attempting to push against the tide of disinformation, such as David Gorski.
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Zubin Damania decided he could present information in a unique style, with emotion and energy.
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Zubin Damania's website won the 2010 Best New Medical Weblog at the 2010 Medical Weblog Awards sponsored by Epocrates and Lenovo.
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In 2012, Tony Hsieh invited Zubin Damania to visit Las Vegas, where Hsieh was in the process of investing $350 million of his own money in a project he hoped would revitalize Downtown Las Vegas.
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Zubin Damania convinced Damania to quit his job as Physician at Stanford and moved his family to Nevada.
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Once in Las Vegas, Zubin Damania continued to produce videos, both as ZDoggMD and himself, while working on opening Turntable Health.
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Zubin Damania is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNLV School of Medicine and has been affiliated with them since February 2017.