About Me
Dr. Jeffrey Nadel is a former White House Fellow, neurosurgical oncology & skull base surgery fellow, global health advocate, and health policy expert committed to a career driving equitable access to cancer care for all. His academic focus is at the nexus of public policy, public health, global health, and neurosurgical oncology to reduce disparities in access to cancer care and aid domestic and international partners in building sustainable cancer care systems into the future.
Appointed by President Joseph R. Biden to be a 2022-2023 White House Fellow, Dr. Nadel served as a senior advisor to the Secretary for Veterans Affairs & VA Under Secretary for Health, driving health policy priorities on behalf of the Secretary and White House, and ensuring full integration between the White House, Office of the Secretary, and Veterans Health Administration nationally. He also served on President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Cabinet as a member of the White House Cancer Data & Innovation Task Force. In that capacity, he was an invited attendee & collaborator for the White House’s Brain Cancer Forum. He currently represents the Congress of Neurological Surgeons on the Permanent Council of the G4 Alliance and serves on the CNS International Committee. In his previous work combatting health disparities across the globe, Dr. Nadel collaborated with the Costa Rican government to build a national literacy program for the elderly. He also worked to cultivate a global surgery research partnership in Uganda. Domestically, Dr. Nadel co-directed a free clinic for the homeless and helped lead an effort to fund community health workers in Detroit.
Dr. Nadel received the inaugural 2025-2026 AANS/CNS Tumor Section Traveling Brain Tumor Fellowship to Johns Hopkins University. He previously served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management at Georgetown University, and as a researcher at The Brookings Institution and the National Institutes of Health. He has published more than three dozen peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and press articles. Dr. Nadel earned an M.D. and M.S. (Clinical Research) from the University of Michigan as a Dean’s Scholar with induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies. He also holds a B.A. from Colorado College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a Rhodes Scholarship finalist and Boettcher Scholar.
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