Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He’s the CEO of healthcare venture Haven, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, the founder and chairman of Ariadne Labs, and the chairman of Lifebox. Gawande is also a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and written four New York Times best selling books. He has been awarded the AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science.