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Atul Gawande

1965 - Today

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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, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit that works on reducing deaths in surgery globally. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Atul Gawande is the 722nd most popular physician (down from 715th in 2024), the 17,655th most popular biography from United States (down from 16,444th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Atul Gawande ranks 722 out of 726. Before him are Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Suniti Solomon, Amina Okueva, James Heilman, and Jonny Kim. After him are Ai Fen, Felipe Contepomi, Rebecca Gomperts, Nidal Hasan, Yvonne Cagle, and Li-Meng Yan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Atul Gawande ranks 1,094. Before him are Steven Hallard, Igor Khoroshev, Bob Ferguson, Phylis Smith, Zeng Guoqiang, and A. L. Kennedy. After him are Ivari Padar, Bruno Le Roux, Nigel Bond, Will Perdue, Kate Gulbrandsen, and Abby Lee Miller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Atul Gawande ranks 17,662 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Bergeron (1955), Lindsay Ellingson (1984), Ashley Williams (1978), Mark Pryor (1963), Katie Featherston (1982), and Adam Davidson (1964). After him are Elise Neal (1966), Kosta Koufos (1989), Sam Huntington (1982), John Cygan (1954), Zachary Knighton (1978), and Hayley Arceneaux (1991).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Atul Gawande ranks 102. Before him are Charles R. Drew (1904), Caldwell Esselstyn (1933), David Shulkin (1959), Donald Henderson (1928), Bill Frist (1952), and Jonny Kim (1984). After him are Nidal Hasan (1970), and Yvonne Cagle (1959).

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