Mikhail Varshavski

Mikhail Varshavski Biography

Mikhail Varshavski is a famous Physician, who was born on November 12, 1989 in . Varshavski was born on November 12, 1989, in Saransk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) He has an older sister Dasha and nephews named Daniel, Steven and Ari. His father was a physician, a graduate of the Third Medical Institute of Moscow, while his mother was a mathematics professor. When he was five, he and his family immigrated to Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, his mother had to work sweeping floors for minimum wage, while his father attended medical school for the second time. In an interview, he related that people thought he was not smart because he did not speak English. According to Astrologers, Mikhail Varshavski's zodiac sign is Capricorn.

Varshavski gained media attention in August 2015 when Buzzfeed published an article about him titled “Um, You Really Need To See This Hot Doctor And His Dog” that highlighted his good looks and his relationship with his dog Roxy. That November, People magazine named him “the Sexiest Doctor Alive” in its Sexiest Man Alive issue, and his Instagram account became popular. He lived in Staten Island at the time.

Varshavski was given the nickname “Doctor Mike” during his high school years by friends who came to him for sports-related injuries, knowing that Varshavski’s father is a physician. After seeing his father’s relationship with his patients, he wanted to become a doctor. He enrolled in the New York Institute of Technology and was accepted for an accelerated, seven-year combined track for a bachelor’s degree in life sciences and a doctoral degree of osteopathic medicine. In 2014 he started residency at Atlantic Health System Overlook Medical Center’s Family Medicine program, completing in 2017. During his first year in the program, his mother died of leukemia. He decided to move back in with his father and got a husky named Roxy. Varshavski has previously dated Miss Universe winner Pia Wurtzbach in 2016.

In 2017, the same year he launched his YouTube channel, Varshavski gave a TEDx Talk on “The epidemic of the ‘I Know It All’ expert” at a TEDxMonteCarlo event. The video of that speech has been viewed nearly 2 million times.