Atul Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Gawande has written extensively on medicine and public health for “The New Yorker” magazine and the online magazine Slate. He has also written for “New England Journal of Medicine”. 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. In 2006 he was named a MacArthur fellow. His newest book, “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” was published in 2007.
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.
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