Jonathan Reisman MD is a physician, author, and adventurer. His interests include anatomy, food, travel, nature, wilderness and prehistoric crafts. He has practiced medicine in some of the world's most remote places, including Antarctica, Arctic Alaska, the Russian Arctic, the Himalayas of Nepal, rural Appalachia, the urban slums of Kolkata, India, and on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He is co-creator of the anatomy-based dinner series Anatomy Eats, which explores human anatomy through cuisines from around the world using offal, internal organs and other unusual body parts. He runs a non-profit dedicated to improving healthcare and education in India.  His first book The Unseen Body is currently being translated into 6 languages. 

Born and raised in New Jersey, Jonathan studied mathematics and philosophy at New York University. After graduating, he lived and traveled in Russia on and off for 2 years while conducting research on the Russian timber industry. He spent five months traveling on the Kamchatka Peninsula among indigenous reindeer herders, and then returned to the US to attend Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. Jonathan did his residency in both internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children.

Jonathan and his wife Anna Wexler, a professor of bioethics at University of Pennsylvania, are avid travelers and writers. 

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