Atul Mark Kaushal, MD

“Dr. Mark”

Dr. Kaushal is the founder and CEO of Medical Education Pathways (MedEdPathways) and sits on the Boards of two non-profit organizations. His company has a unique model, focusing on providing opportunity for higher medical education to those students who may not have such opportunity. His non-profit Board work is split between two passions. The first is mentoring at-risk students in local urban high schools. The second is international service work in underdeveloped nations, sometimes in association with Rotary International. Dr. Kaushal is also the Past President of the Rotary Club of Skokie Valley.

Medical Education Pathways focuses on leveraging global resources to bring healthcare professionals and opportunities for higher education to underserved areas in the United States. The Rural Hospital Initiative and Urban Physician Initiative are innovative new programs that promise to solve many of the issues in healthcare relating to underserved populations. These educational models are based on the engine that MEP has developed and continues to use when working with individual students who are interested in study-abroad medical programs.

Mirroring his career, his spare time is often devoted to humanitarian and charitable work for many non-profit health organizations. He and his wife both volunteer on the medical staff for the AVON Walk for Breast Cancer and they couple also volunteer and emcee the American Cancer Society’s annual ‘Relay for Life’. Dr. Kaushal is also starting a non-profit branch of his own company with the idea of taking underprivileged students to medical school for free. Sponsored participants would then return to work in the rural or urban areas which are currently underserved and where the physician shortage is expected to get worse in the next few years.

Dr Kaushal obtained his Medical Degree in Europe from the Medical University of Debrecen in 1999. He was educated in Chicago and studied pre-med at Northwestern University. He has furthered his studies into the spiritual / energy medicine and healing arena, exploring new possibilities and cutting edge therapeutic modalities in the treatment and management of diseases. He is a certified Reiki Master, which is an Eastern form of energy healing. He currently lives with his wife in a far suburb of Chicago, and continues his spiritual learning through reading, attending retreats and with the help of mentors and advisors.