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Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) 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 June 20, 2018, Dr. Gawande was named the CEO of a recently formed healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase. 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: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.

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Born

1965-11-05

Birth Place

New York City, New York, U.S.

Education

Stanford_University

Awards

Rhodes Scholarship MacArthur Fellow (2006) Reith Lectures (2014)

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Houston Chronicle

'Post Reports' podcast: Atul Gawande on why we still need COVID funding

"Post Reports" is the daily podcast from The Washington Post. Unparalleled reporting. Expert insight. Clear analysis. Everything you've come to expect from the newsroom of The Post - for your ears. - - - In this episode:. Today on the show, we hear from national health reporter Dan Diamond about...

PUBLIC HEALTH2022-05-10

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baltimorefishbowl.com

Johns Hopkins University to host discussion on COVID-19, global health with public health leader Atul Gawande April 29

On Friday, April 29, Johns Hopkins University will host a virtual discussion with public health leader Atul Gawande as part of the university’s Health Policy Forum. Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The conversation,...

BALTIMORE, MD2022-04-20

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Life expectancy: Atul Gawande explores the differences that make Costa Rica’s higher than ours

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