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My Take
Atul Gawande is, to me, a model of intelligence put in service of others. A Harvard surgeon who also writes might sound like a vanity project, but his real gift is translation: turning the terrifying complexity of medicine into prose ordinary readers can act on. The Checklist Manifesto took something as humble as a list and made it a matter of life and death, which I find quietly brilliant. With a Rhodes Scholarship and a MacArthur Fellowship behind him, he could have stayed cloistered in expertise. Instead he keeps opening the door. I deeply admire thinkers who refuse to hoard their knowledge.
Overview
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.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Atul Gawande
- Name (Japanese)
- アトゥール・ガワンデ
- Reading
- あとぅーる・がわんで
- Born
- November 5, 1965 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Snake
- Origin
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- medical writer / journalist / professor / surgeon / researcher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Athens High School
- University
- Balliol College
Awards & achievements
- 2006 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 1987 Rhodes Scholarship
- 2017 Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award for Excellence in Public Health
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | The Checklist Manifesto | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.