Dr. Atul Nakhasi, MD, MPP, serves as Senior Advisor for the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. The Office’s core priorities are centered on addressing the youth mental health crisis and combating the nation’s epidemic of loneliness and social isolation. Dr. Nakhasi also serves as a primary care physician for the underserved communities of Watts/Compton at a government-run public clinic in South Los Angeles. During the initial stages of the pandemic, he also served as a frontline physician in the LA COVID Surge Hospital resurrected by the Governor. Dr. Nakhasi attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for his medical degree and Harvard Kennedy School of Government for his public policy degree, where he was named a Fellow at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. He has been featured in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and CNN. He originally hails from Iowa, born and raised amongst cows and cornfields in the Midwest.