Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer and public health leader. He is the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, which reshaped the public conversation about aging, hospice and the limits of medical intervention, and The Checklist Manifesto.

A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he founded Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit working to make surgery safer globally. He served as Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID, and is a MacArthur Fellow.