MagicAid is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and program that uses magic to improve the hospitalization experience for pediatric patients and encourage the delivery of compassionate healthcare.

[1] MagicAid teaches health professional students to perform magic tricks within a hospital setting at the bedside.

[5][6] MagicAid's origins trace back to Stony Brook University School of Medicine[3] where the group's founders were medical students.

MagicAid currently services 8 medical centers in the United States,[7] mostly serving the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area.

MagicAid's president, David Elkin, performed magic in hospitals in a volunteer capacity in Los Angeles prior to attending medical school.

[9] MagicAid has made it part of their mission to develop a curriculum within an evidence-based framework by conducting research into their form of "magic therapy".

During the pandemic, MagicAid moved many other of its operations to virtually or socially-distanced platforms in order to continue providing voluntary magic therapy to pediatric patients.