Philip Niles is simultaneously pursuing his M.D. and M.B.A. degrees at Case Western in Cleveland. He completed his undergraduate magna cum laude in three years, and majored in economics. Philip has pursued several independent projects including: evaluating the economic value of renovating public square for the Cleveland City Planning Commission, starting an HIV/AIDS testing center in Kenya, working as a supply chain management consultant for ORBIS International, an organization committed to preventing avoidable blindness through the use of its airplane-turned-eye hospital, in the Philippines, Myanmar and Vietnam, and, most recently, Philip has been named a Cleveland Clinic Healthcare Management Scholar, and consultanted for the Cleveland Clinic Quality and Patient Safety Institute on the costs of postoperative complications. Philip has also been honored as a 2009 TED Fellow.