PHYSICIAN

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Atul Gawande has received more than 1,806,216 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Atul Gawande is the 714th most popular physician (down from 609th in 2019), the 16,450th most popular biography from United States (down from 15,045th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Physician.

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  • 42.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Atul Gawande ranks 714 out of 726. Before him are Fritz Klein, Fernando Simón, Soumya Swaminathan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, David Shulkin, and James Heilman. After him are Ai Fen, Hinrich Romeike, Suniti Solomon, Deborah Birx, Jonny Kim, and Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Atul Gawande ranks 844. Before him are Peter MacKay, Billy Donovan, Zhang Xin, Håkon Wium Lie, Lilies Handayani, and Patty Fendick. After him are Cecilia Wikström, Tom Boyd, Monja Roindefo, Ferenc Csipes, Cam Neely, and Szczepan Sadurski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Atul Gawande ranks 16,450 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Hicks (1946), Rashad Evans (1979), Jan Schakowsky (1944), Dominick Cruz (1985), Matthew Emmons (1981), and Brent Barry (1971). After him are Mo Brooks (1954), Yoon Mi-rae (1981), Ben Spies (1984), Paula Hawkins (1927), Roger Marshall (1960), and J. August Richards (1973).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Atul Gawande ranks 98. Before him are Sara Josephine Baker (1873), Caldwell Esselstyn (1933), Donald Henderson (1928), Joycelyn Elders (1933), Bill Frist (1952), and David Shulkin (1959). After him are Deborah Birx (1956), Jonny Kim (1984), and Yvonne Cagle (1959).

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