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BIO
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
- Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy®-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN.
- Sanjay Gupta, MD contributes to CNN.com and CNNHealth.com; topics including brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, HIV/AIDS, and other areas.
- In 2011, Gupta reported from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan.
- In 2010, Gupta reported on the devastating earthquake in Haiti, for which he was awarded two Emmy®s.
- In 2010 included live coverage on the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan.
- In 2010, Gupta was honored by John F. Kennedy University with its Laureate Award for leaders in health and wellness. 2011, Forbes magazine named him as one of the “Ten Most Influential Celebrities.”
- In 2009, he embedded with the U.S. Army’s 82ndAirborne, accompanying them on life-saving rescue missions in Afghanistan.
- In 2009 “Fit Nation” followed the progress of Gupta and six CNN viewers as they inspire each other while training for a triathlon. The program is in its third year.
- In 2009, he won both the first Health Communications Achievement Award from the American Medical Association’s Medical Communications Conference and the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award from the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC).
- In 2006, Gupta contributed to CNN's Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
- His “Charity Hospital” coverage for Anderson Cooper 360° resulted in his 2006 News & Documentary Emmy® for Outstanding Feature Story.
- Dr. Gupta, an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
- He is also a guest on Anderson Cooper 360°'s prog.
- "Charity Hospital" won a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.
- In 2004, Gupta was sent to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami disaster that took more than 155,000 lives in Southeast Asia, contributing to the 2005 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award for CNN.
- In 2004, the Atlanta Press Club named him “Journalist of the Year,”
- In 2004, Gupta introduced "New You Resolution," in which he followed five viewers for eight weeks as they faced the day-to-day challenges of adhering to their resolutions for a healthier lifestyle.
- In 2003, Gupta spent time in 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. Gupta's coverage also appeared in a one-hour CNN Presents documentary.
- In 2003, Gupta was named one of PEOPLE magazine’s “Sexiest Men Alive” and a “pop culture icon” by USA Today
- In 2001, he reported from New York following the attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.
- He provided live coverage of the first operation performed during the war, and performed life-saving brain surgery five times himself in a desert operating room..
- 1997- 1998, he served as one of fifteen White House Fellows, primarily as an advisor to Hillary Clinton.
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PARENTS:
- In 1960, Gupta's parents Subhash and Damyanti Gupta came from India to Michigan, along with his older brother, Yogesh Gupta, to work as engineers.
- His mother was the first female engineer to work in Ford Motor Company in Dearborn. MI
QUALIFICATION:
- Gupta completed separate neurosurgical fellowships at the Semmes-Murphey Clinic in Tennessee, and the University of Michigan Medical Center.
- Gupta received his B.S. degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his M.D from the University of Michigan Medical Center in 1993.
- As part of Inteflex prog., he was accepted directly from high school, a 7-year program combining pre-medical and medical school
- In 2000, he completed his residency in neurological surgery within the University of Michigan Health System in 2000
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- He is the author of three best-selling books, Chasing Life (2007), Cheating Death (2009) and Monday Mornings (2012).
- 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 on Foreign Relations and the Brain Foundation.
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