Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: Daniel Awad, MD

Type: Video

Focus Area: Workforce Development

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Fellowship Alumni Spotlight series showcases some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships.

Salk Health Activist Fellowship Alumnus Dr. Daniel Awad is an internal medicine resident physician at New York University. Prior to earning his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Awad was a dual-certified Emergency and Family Medicine nurse practitioner with diverse clinical and leadership experience, including specialty work in pediatric gastroenterology and emergency medicine. During his previous career, Dr. Awad recognized that his patients’ environment and resources had a significant impact on their health. He is dedicated to improving health access, care quality, and patient outcomes through his clinical work and health equity research.