Atul Gawande

Who is Atul Gawande?

Atul Gawande is an Indian American surgeon and journalist. He is widely known as an expert on optimizing modern healthcare systems. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate and is the author of the books Complications, Better, and The Checklist Manifesto.