Atul A Gawande

A surgeon and a writer, Atul Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He is Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also leads the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Saves Lives campaign. Winner of a MacArthur Award and National Magazine Award, he is the author of three bestselling books: Complications, Better, and The Checklist Manifesto. Atul Gawande received a B.A.S. (1987) from Stanford University, an M.A. (1989) from the University of Oxford, an M.D. (1995) from Harvard Medical School, and an M.P.H. (1999) from Harvard School of Public Health. Since 2003, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon in the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Since 2004, he has also served as an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health and as assistant director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Gawande is a staff writer for the New Yorker and writes the “Notes of a Surgeon” column for the New England Journal of Medicine.