Tristan Jafari is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington with a degree in biochemistry and an MPhil in population health sciences from the University of Cambridge. 

Tristan is interested in advancing preventive medicine, which involves reshaping clinical care, health systems, and the environment to keep people healthy rather than waiting to treat illness once it sets in. As an undergraduate, he founded the University of Washington Emergency Medical Services, the first student-run licensed 9-1-1 EMS agency in Washington State. He has led initiatives to certify community members in CPR and overdose-reversal for free. Tristan also founded the MedReport Foundation, a platform that makes medical information accessible at low cost. He has worked at the bedside as a medical scribe on a street-medicine teams serving people experiencing homelessness and as an EMT and has contributed to public health and policy projects with the National Academy of Medicine and the American Red Cross. His research has ranged from the cellular mechanisms underlying cardiometabolic disease to the application of artificial intelligence in clinical care. 

He grew up in Mukilteo, Washington, and is a dual citizen of Germany. He speaks English, German, and Farsi. Outside of medicine, Tristan is a long-distance runner who also loves table tennis, foosball, reading, and most recently, playing Yahtzee against himself.