Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and public health leader. An endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor at Harvard, he founded and chairs Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit making surgery safer globally. He also founded CIC Health, which scales up COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution. From 2018 to 2020, Gawande was CEO of health care venture Haven. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998 and written four New York Times best-sellers, including Being Mortal. Gawande won two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on health care, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for science writing.
