Atul Gawande

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Atul Gawande (b. 1965) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and 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]. 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.

Atul Gawande was born on November 5, 1965 in Brooklyn, NY. The son of Indian immigrants, both doctors, he grew up in Athens, OH with his sister. He is a Rhodes scholar and attended Harvard Medical School after obtaining an undergraduate degree at Stanford. He also has a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine. 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.

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