Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Biography
Dr. Sanjay
Gupta is senior medical correspondent for the health and medical unit
at CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon
and an assistant
professor of neurosurgery, plays an integral role in the network’s
medical coverage, which includes daily packages, the half-hour weekend
show Weekend House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and coverage of breaking
medical news. Based in Atlanta, he also co-hosts Accent Health for
Turner Private Networks, provides medical segments for the syndicated
version of ER on TNT, contributes health news stories to CNN.com and
writes a column for TIME magazine.
Gupta joined CNN in the summer of 2001 and became part of the network
team covering the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City. Breaking news
about anthrax and its deadly effects highlighted Gupta’s coverage.
In 2003, Gupta spent time in Iraq and Kuwait, reporting on various
medical aspects of escalating tension with Iraq. During “Operation
Iraqi Freedom,” Gupta reported as an embedded correspondent with
the U.S. Navy’s medical unit, the “Devil Docs.” He
provided viewers with exclusive reports from points along the unit’s
travel to Baghdad and provided live coverage from a desert operating
room of the first operation performed during the war. Gupta also performed
brain surgery five times. Additionally, Gupta’s coverage appeared
in a one-hour CNN Presents documentary, and he will serve as executive
producer on an upcoming TNT original movie in development about the
unit.
Besides his battlefield medicine coverage, Gupta also reported from
Kuwait immediately after a low-flying missile hit a Kuwaiti shopping
mall.
In 2004, he traveled to the international AIDS conference in Bangkok,
Thailand, where he reported on the pandemic for CNN/U.S., CNN International
and CNN Headline News.
He also introduced “New You Resolution,” the first installment
of prime-time, health-related specials Gupta produces for the network.
Following “New You Resolution,” he anchored “Life
Beyond Limits,” which explored individuals who push their bodies
to extremes. Gupta’s subsequent specials “The First President:
Health and the Presidency” and “Are You Positive?” addressed
presidential health and AIDS. His next special in 2005 will look at
memory.
In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and
faculty of the department of neurosurgery at the Emory University School
of Medicine in Atlanta and performs surgery weekly at Emory University
Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, where he serves as chief of neurosurgery.
Before joining CNN, Gupta was a neurosurgeon at the University of Tennessee’s
Semmes-Murphy clinic, and before that, the University of Michigan Medical
Center. He became partner of the Great Lakes Brain and Spine Institute
in 2000 and in 1997, he was chosen as a White House Fellow — one
of only 15 fellows appointed. He served as special advisor to the first
lady.
Gupta has been published in a variety of scientific journals and has
received numerous accolades. In 2003, he was named one of PEOPLE magazine’s “Sexiest
Men Alive” and a “pop culture icon” by USA Today.
He recently 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, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Do Something
Foundation, Healing the Children Foundation, the Council of Foreign
Relations and the Brain Foundation. Gupta is also a certified medical
investigator.
Gupta received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan
and a doctorate of medicine from the University of Michigan Medical
Center.
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