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About Atul Gawande
Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
In public health, he was chairman of Ariadne Labs,[1] a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. On 20 June 2018, Gawande was named CEO of healthcare venture Haven, owned by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase, and stepped down as CEO in May 2020, remaining as executive chairman while the organization sought a new CEO.
He is the author of the books Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science; Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
On 9 November 2020, he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. On 17 December 2021, he was confirmed as Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and was sworn in on 4 January 2022.[2][3] He left this position on January 20, 2025.
- Born: 1965 (age 59 years), Brooklyn, New York, NY
- Parents: Atmaram Gawande, Sushila Gawande
- Spouse: Kathleen Hobson (m. 1992)
- Descendants: Hunter Gawande, Hattie Gawande, Walker Gawande
- Education: Stanford University (BA, BS) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (MD, MPH)
- Award: MacArthur Fellowship (2006), Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
- Affiliations: Harvard University, Ariadne Labs, Safesurg.org, WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives, The New Yorker, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase health care venture
- Organization founded: Lifebox
References
- Wikipedia; official website; Harvard School of Public Health
- “As Lifebox Co-founder and Inaugural Chair, Dr. Atul Gawande, led the global work of Lifebox for ten years to make surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide.’ < lifebox.org >
- Atut Atmaram Gawande in the U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current < AncestrySharing > Name Atut Atmaram Gawande Gender Male Residence Date Abt 1992 Residence Place Cambridge Mass Marriage Date Nov 1992 Parents Atmaram Gawande; Sushi Gawande Spouse Kathleen Hunter Hobson
- “The Best Medicine: Atul Gawande works to learn how good doctors improve.” (July/August 2007) < stanford.mag > “ The same could be said for writers. Gawande remembers the C he got in his freshman writing seminar. “I had never seen a letter like that on my report card. I was horrified.” He tried fiction writing, mainly because a girl he had his eye on was taking the class. (He and Kathleen Hobson, ’88, married a few years later; they have three children.) The instructor, writer Ehud Havazelet, took Gawande aside partway through the class and suggested he find something else to do. (“Good thing he ignored me,” said Havazelet via e-mail.)”
- “The Unlikely Writer: Atul Gawande, “slightly bewildered” surgeon and health-policy scholar—and a literary voice of medicine.” (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2009) < harvardmagazine.com > “Those earliest pieces did take work. Gawande’s wife, Kathleen Hobson, a former comparative literature major who has worked in book publishing and in magazines, gave the inaugural Slate column a first edit before submission. She says it demanded a “slash and burn” approach: “It was horrible.” This is related in a tone of wry affection—and astonishment at his progress since then. His first New Yorker piece, in 1998, took nine months from submission to publication, and went through 22 rewrites; today, they typically take just a couple.“
- Atmaram Gawande (September 9, 1934 - August 10, 2011) < link > Dr. Atmaram Gawande, of Athens, passed away Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at the age of 76, from complications of cancer. The son of Sitaram and Gopikabai Gawande, he was born and raised in the small village of Uti in the Indian state of Maharashtra in a family of seven brothers and five sisters. ... He is survived by his wife, Sushila of Athens; two children, Atul of Newton, Massachusetts, and Meeta of Jersey City, New Jersey, and three grandchildren ...
- “Author Dr. Atul Gawande urges doctors, families to start end-of-life conversations” (Updated February 23, 2016) < charlotteobserver.com > “In a telephone interview last week, Gawande said he visits Charlotte periodically because his wife of 24 years, Kathleen Hobson, has relatives in the area. Her uncle and aunt, Downie and Sally Saussy, live in Charlotte, and her parents, Jim and Nan Hobson, live in Asheville.”
- “Ariadne Labs gets a gift from loyal friend Atul Gawande.” (February 14, 2023) < hsph.harvard.edu >” Atul Gawande, MPH ’99, and his wife Kathleen Hobson have supported the center since the beginning, and recently increased their support with a gift of $500,000. Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard Chan School and a surgeon at the Brigham, cofounded CIC Health during the COVID-19 pandemic.“
- “The New Yorker Interview: Hundreds of Thousands Will Die.” (March 15, 2025) < newyorker.com > “… When we spoke recently for The New Yorker Radio Hour, Gawande, usually a wry, high-spirited presence, was in a grave mood. There were flashes of anger and despair in his voice. He was, after all, watching Trump and Elon Musk dismantle, gleefully, a global health agency that had only lately been for him a source of devotion and inspiration. As a surgeon, Gawande had long been in a position to save one life at a time. More recently, and all too briefly, he was part of a vast collective responsible for untold good around the world. And now, as he made plain, that collective has been deliberately cast into chaos, even ruins. The cost in human lives is sure to be immense. …”
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Atul Gawande's Timeline
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November 5, 1965
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Brooklyn, New York, Kings County, New York, United States
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Stanford University
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Harvard University
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