SANJAY GUPTA, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and an assistant professor at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He is a columnist for Time magazine, a contributor to CBS News, and a chief medical correspondent at CNN, where he plays an integral role in the network’s medical coverage, including daily reports, the half-hour weekend show House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and coverage of breaking medical news. He also cohosts Accent Health for Turner Private Networks, provides medical segments for the syndicated version of ER on TNT, and contributes health news stories to CNN.com. He recently launched a weekly podcast on iTunes called Paging Dr. Gupta.
Before joining CNN, Gupta was a neurosurgeon at the University of Tennessee’s Semmes-Murphey clinic, and before that at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He became a partner in the Great Lakes Brain and Spine Institute in 2000, and in 1997, he was chosen as a White House Fellow, one of only fifteen fellows appointed. He served as special advisor to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gupta has been published in a variety of scientific journals and has received numerous accolades. In 2006, he won an Emmy Award and four National Headliner Awards, the most an individual journalist has ever received. In 2004, the Atlanta Press Club named him Journalist of the Year. His coverage has led to prestigious Peabody and duPont awards for CNN. He has won the Humanitarian Award from the National Press Photographers Association, a Gold Award from the National Health Care Communicators, and a finalist honor for the International Health and Medical Media award known as the FREDDIE.
He is a member of several organizations, including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the Council of Foreign Relations. He is also a board member of Live Strong. Dr. Gupta is a certified medical investigator and a board-certified neurosurgeon. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurosurgery.