Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He is the host of the CNN show Sanjay Gupta MD. His reports from Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to him winning a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast. In January 2009, it was reported that Gupta was offered the position of Surgeon General of the United States in the Obama Administration, but he withdrew his name from consideration.
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Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He is the host of the CNN show Sanjay Gupta MD for which he has won multiple Emmy Awards. His reports from Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to him winning a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast. In January 2009, it was reported that Gupta was offered the position of Surgeon General of the United States in the Obama Administration, but he withdrew his name from consideration. Gupta plays the accordion, having taken ten years of lessons, as he noted in an interview with David Hochman for Playboy. His mother was born in the village of Tharushah in Sindh, but at age 5 fled to India as a Hindu refugee during the Partition of India. He has written four books: Chasing Life, Cheating Death, Monday Mornings: A Novel, and Keep Sharp. He also co-hosts the health conference Life Itself, along with Marc Hodosh. Gupta published a column in Time magazine and has written a book about his experiences in Iraq. In February 2009, Gupta hosted a special episode of AC360 covering the White House Health Summit. On October 14, 2007, Gupta guest-hosted a health episode of CBS News Sunday Morning as its regular host Charles Osgood on vacation.
In December 2006, CBS News president Sean McManus negotiated a deal with Gupta that would have Gupta file up to ten reports a year for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and 60 Minutes while remaining CNN’s chief medical correspondent. Gupta is a frequent contributor to other CNN programs such as American Morning, Larry King Live, CNN Tonight, and Anderson Cooper 360°. In 2003, Gupta traveled to Iraq to cover the medical aspects of the invasion of Iraq. While in Iraq, Gupta performed emergency surgery on both US soldiers and Iraqi civilians. In 2010, Gupta received a call from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson that an earthquake victim, a 12-year-old girl, was aboard and needed a neurosurgeons. Gupta, a pediatric surgeon, Henri Ford, and two U.S. Navy doctors removed a piece of concrete from the girl’s skull in an operation performed aboard the Vinson. Gupta completed his residency in neurological surgery within the University of Michigan Health System, in 2000, followed by a fellowship at the Semmes Murphy Clinic, in Memphis, Tennessee. He has published medical journal articles on percutaneous pedicle screw placement, brain tumors, and spinal cord abnormalities, and is licensed to practice medicine in Georgia.
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