Atul Gawande

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Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine Slate. He has also written for New England Journal of Medicine. His essays have appeared in The Best American Essays 2002 and The Best American Science Writing 2002. His book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science was a National Book Award finalist. In 2006 he was named a MacArthur fellow. ^[1]

Gawande, the son of Indian immigrants and doctors, grew up in Athens, Ohio with his sister. He obtained an undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1987, was a Rhodes scholar (earning a P.P.E. degree Balliol College, Oxford in 1989), and later graduated from Harvard Medical School. He also has a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

In the medical field, he is a leading expert on the removal of cancerous endocrine glands. These impressive accomplishments have paved the way for Gawande to be named as one of the 20 Most Influential South Asians by Newsweek Magazine. Dr. Gawande lives in Newton, Massachusetts and has three children.