Alok Patel

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About Alok Patel

Dr. Alok Patel is a physician, journalist, producer, and on-camera expert, who firmly believes humor and relatability should drive science communication."Scientists," he'll tell you,"need a much louder megaphone."He is a special correspondent for ABC News and regularly appears as an on-camera expert for several news outlets. Additionally, he is co-host of PBS/NOVA's "Parentalogic", a digital series on the science of parenting - with a comedic twist, host of the Nova Now podcast and runs a popular web-series for Medscape. Previously, he worked as a medical producer for CNN/HLN and as a host/contributor for both ABC and NBC News in New York City. He is involved with several advocacy projects including a media-based sex trafficking education campaign, a 501c-3 dedicated to improving healthcare's presence on social media, and an initiatives to improve access to mental health care. Dr. Patel is originally from Arizona, completed his pediatric residency at Seattle Children's Hospital and is currently a pediatric hospitalist at Columbia University, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco. In his rare downtime, you can catch him practicing martial arts, creating cocktails, discovering new music (ask him about this), or spending time with his wife, a renown wedding/event planner, who is more creative, talented, and far better-looking, than he is.