Dr. Rishi Patel is in the process of obtaining his fellowship in Palliative Care at UCLA. He completed his internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and earned his medical degree at Midwestern University after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Patel has dedicated himself to philanthropic organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Project Homeless Connect, H.O.M.E Clinic, H.O.P.E for Haiti, and HELP international. He is also co-founder of the Amrish Sanitation Project, which was created to bring focus to sanitation and hygiene to under-served villages around Ahmedabad, India.