In May 2013, Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. Post-Yale, Kalanithi returned to Stanford for his residency training in neurological surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience. While at Yale, he also met his future wife, Lucy Goddard, and the two married shortly after graduating. He attended medical school at Yale University and graduated cum laude. He earned an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge before going to medical school. in Human Biology from Stanford University. He graduated as the valedictorian of his high school and went on to graduate with a B.A. His father was a doctor, and when he was ten years old his family (he was the middle of three brothers) moved to Kingman, Arizona.
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