Vinayak Muralidhar was raised in Chandler, Arizona. In college, he studied math and biology at MIT and then spent a year getting a master's in social policy at the University of Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship. After his master's, he returned to Boston to attend Harvard Medical School. He chose medicine to combine my interests in science and service and once he found radiation oncology during his fourth year, he knew it was a perfect fit. He stayed in Boston for residency at the Harvard radiation oncology program, and he is so excited to now work in the Pacific Northwest.