Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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Atul Gawande is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In public health, he is executive director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On November 9 he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board. On June 20, 2018, Gawande was named the CEO of healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase and stepped down as CEO in May 2020.
He has written extensively on medicine and public Health for The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of the books Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. His essays have appeared in The Best American Science, The Best Essays in American Science and Nature Writing. In 2012, he gave the TED Talk, “How We Heal Medicine: Do We Heal The World?” He is the director of the World Health Organization’s Global Patient Safety Challenge, which aims to reduce the number of deaths in medicine by 20% by 2015. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Marathi Indian immigrants to the United States, both doctors.
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