Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande | |
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Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for Global Health | |
Assumed office January 4, 2022 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Alma Golden |
Member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board | |
In office November 9, 2020 – January 20, 2021 | |
Co-chairs | David A. Kessler, Vivek Murthy and Marcella Nunez-Smith |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | New York City, U.S. | November 5, 1965
Education | MPH ) |
Awards | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Healthcare |
Institutions | Haven Healthcare, CEO Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Website | |
Atul Atmaram Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and
He has written extensively on medicine and public health for
On November 9, 2020, he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. On December 17, 2021, he was confirmed as the Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and he was sworn in on January 4, 2022.[3][4]
Early years and education
Gawande was born on November 5, 1965,[5] in Brooklyn, New York, to Marathi Indian immigrants to the United States, both doctors.[6] His family soon moved to Athens, Ohio, where he and his sister grew up, and he graduated from Athens High School in 1983.[7]
Gawande earned a bachelor's degree in biology and political science from
Political advocacy
As an undergraduate, Gawande was a volunteer for Gary Hart's campaign for the presidency of the United States.[10] After graduating, he joined Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign.[11] He worked as a health-care researcher for Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN), who was author of a "managed competition" health care proposal for the Conservative Democratic Forum.[12] Gawande entered medical school in 1990 – leaving after two years to become Bill Clinton's healthcare lieutenant during the 1992 campaign.[11]
Public service
Gawande later became a senior advisor in the
Gawande led the "Safe surgery saves lives checklist" initiative of the World Health Organization, which saw around 200 medical societies and health ministries collaborating to produce a checklist, which was published in 2008, to be used in operating theaters. The Lancet welcomed the checklist as "a tangible instrument to promote safety", adding "But the checklist is not an end in itself. Its real value lies in encouraging communication among teams and stimulating further reform to bring a culture of safety to the very centre of patients' care."[15]
Journalism
Soon after he began his
In January 1998, Gawande published an article in Slate – "Partial truths in the partial-birth-abortion debate: Every abortion is gross, but the technique is not the issue" – discussing how abortion policy should "hinge on the question of when the fetus first becomes a perceiving being" and "not on techniques at all – or even on when the fetus can survive outside the womb".[17]
A June 2009 New Yorker essay by Gawande compared the health care of two towns in
The article "made waves" by highlighting the issue, according to Bryant Furlow in Lancet Oncology.[19] It was cited by President Barack Obama during Obama's attempt to get health care reform legislation passed by the United States Congress. According to Senator Ron Wyden, the article "affected [Obama's] thinking dramatically", and was shown to a group of senators by Obama, who effectively said, "This is what we've got to fix."[20] After reading the New Yorker article, Warren Buffett's long-time business partner Charlie Munger mailed a check to Gawande in the amount of $20,000 as a thank-you to Dr. Gawande for providing something so socially useful.[21] Gawande returned the check and was subsequently sent a new check for $40,000. Gawande donated the $40,000 to the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Surgery and Public Health, where he had been a resident.[22]
In 2012, he gave the TED talk "How Do We Heal Medicine?" which has been viewed more than two million times.[23]
Books
Gawande published his first book, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, containing revised versions of 14 of his articles for Slate and The New Yorker, in 2002.[5] It was a National Book Award finalist.[5]
His second book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, was released in April 2007. It discusses three virtues that Gawande considers to be most important for success in medicine: diligence, doing right, and ingenuity. Gawande offers examples in the book of people who have embodied these virtues. The book strives to present multiple sides of contentious medical issues, such as malpractice law in the US, physicians' role in capital punishment, and treatment variation between hospitals.[24]
Gawande released his third book,
Later career
Gawande chaired Lifebox, a non-profit, from its foundation in 2011 until 2022. Lifebox provides training and equipment for safer surgery.[28][29]
In June 2018, he was named the CEO for the new, Boston-based company, Haven Healthcare, formed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.[30] He stepped down from the position in May 2020, remaining as executive chairman while the organization sought a new CEO.[31] In January 2021, Haven announced that it was to cease operations. According to CNBC, sources associated with the company claimed that "while the firm came up with ideas, each of the three founding companies executed their own projects separately with their own employees, obviating the need for the joint venture to begin with."[32]
Biden administration
On November 9, 2020, he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board.[33]
USAID nomination
On July 13, 2021, President Biden nominated Gawande for the post of Assistant Administrator of
Awards and honors
In 2004, Gawande was selected as one of the "20 Most Influential South Asians" by
In the 2010
Bibliography
Books
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. (Picador, 2002)
- Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. (Picador, 2008)
- The Checklist Manifesto. (Metropolitan Books, 2009)
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. (Metropolitan Books, 2014)
Essays and reporting
- "Partial truths in the partial-birth-abortion debate: Every abortion is gross, but the technique is not the issue". Slate. January 1998.
- "The Cost Conundrum". The New Yorker. May 25, 2009.
- "Now what?". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. 86 (8): 21–22. April 5, 2010.
References
- ^ "Ariadne Labs founder Atul Gawande transitions to chairman and becomes CEO of new health care organization". Ariadne Labs. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
- ^ "Atul Gawande". The New Yorker. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
- ^ Wagner, Rose (December 17, 2021). "Senate powers through nomination votes in marathon session". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ^ "Administrator Samantha Power at the Swearing-in Ceremony for Atul Gawande, Assistant Administrator to the Bureau for Global Health". U.S. Agency for International Development. January 4, 2022. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
- ^ )
- ^ "Atul Gawande on the Secrets of a Puzzle-Filled Career". Medscape. Archived from the original on May 19, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "AHS alum a national player in medical arena". The Athens NEWS. November 22, 1999. Archived from the original on January 22, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Accomplished Alumni – School of Humanities and Sciences". Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
- ^ "Home | Atul Gawande | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health". Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Archived from the original on May 19, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ Gudrais, Elizabeth (October 2009). "The Unlikely Writer". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ a b "Humane Endeavor". Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics. November 17, 2014. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ^ "Cooperman". The New Republic. Vol. 209, no. 21. Washington. November 22, 1993. p. 11.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the originalon January 21, 2010. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
- ^ Diamond, Dan (November 3, 2017). "Pulse Check: Atul Gawande goes to Washington (again)". Politico. Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
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- ^ Sandhu, Sukhdev (October 11, 2014). "Atul Gawande: 'If I haven't succeeded in making you itchy, disgusted or cry I haven't done my job". The Guardian. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ a b Gawande, Atul (January 30, 1998). "Partial Truths in the Partial-Birth-Abortion Debate". Slate. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ^ "The Cost Conundrum". The New Yorker. May 25, 2009. Archived from the original on October 4, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- PMID 19810157.
- from the original on May 25, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ Hatch, Lauren (March 2, 2010). "New Yorker Writer Gets $20,000 Check From Warren Buffett's Partner". Business Insider. Archived from the original on May 18, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Atul Gawande, a surgeon injecting humanity into US healthcare". Financial Times. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
- ^ Gawande, Atul (April 16, 2012). "How do we heal medicine?". TED (conference). Archived from the original on August 8, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ Chen, Pauline W. (April 22, 2007). "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance – Atul Gawande – Books – Review". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 20, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
- ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books – Best Sellers". The New York Times. March 7, 2010. Archived from the original on March 22, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ Fink, Sheri (November 6, 2014). "Atul Gawande's 'Being Mortal'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Being Mortal". PBS. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ LaVito, Angelica (July 9, 2018). "Dr. Atul Gawande to start as CEO of Buffett, Bezos and Dimon's health-care venture". CNBC. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
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- Boston Globe. June 20, 2018. Archivedfrom the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ Reuter, Elise (May 13, 2020). "Gawande steps down as CEO of Haven, underscoring how hard it is to change healthcare". MedCity News. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ^ Son, Hugh (January 4, 2021). "Haven venture disbanding after 3 years". CNBC. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
- ^ Mucha, Sarah (November 9, 2020). "Biden transition team announces coronavirus advisers, including whistleblower Rick Bright". CNN. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ^ "President Biden Announces 11 Key Nominations". The White House. July 13, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ "Rubio Delays Atul Gawande's Nomination to Serve as Top Global Public Health Official Over Radical Abortion Views". U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio. October 19, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
- ^ "PN874 – Atul Atmaram Gawande – United States Agency for International Development 117th Congress (2021–2022)". US Congress. December 17, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Atul Atmaram Gawande, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development)". US Senate. December 17, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ "Power and Influence". Newsweek. March 21, 2004. Archived from the original on May 19, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "Atul Gawande – MacArthur Foundation". macfound.org. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ "Q&A with Atul Gawande, Part 2" Archived March 20, 2012, at the Wayback Machine H&HN. June 30, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
- ^ "The Hastings Center Annual Report 2009" (PDF). The Hastings Center. 2009. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ Daschle, Tom (April 29, 2010). "The 2010 Time 100: Atul Gawande". Archived from the original on May 9, 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- ^ Swift, Andrew (November 28, 2010). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on November 19, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "APS Member History". American Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
- ^ Dr Atul Gawande – 2014 Reith Lectures. Archived October 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine BBC Radio 4. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
- ^ "Why Do Doctors Fail?, Dr Atul Gawande: The Future of Medicine, The Reith Lectures – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ "Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande awarded Lewis Thomas Prize". Rockefeller Foundation. April 1, 2014. Archived from the original on May 18, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ^ "2016 Governor's Awards in the Humanities". Archived from the original on August 20, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- ^ "Penn's 2022 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients". University of Pennsylvania Almanac. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
Further reading
- McBain, Sophie (November 21, 2014). "Rock doctor". New Statesman. 143 (5237): 17.
External links
Interviews and Talks
- Charlie Rose – interviews 2007–2010
- The Daily Show – guest on February 3, 2010
- Atul Gawande on Real Healthcare Reform and His New Book, The Checklist Manifesto – video report by Democracy Now!
- Atul Gawande at TED
- 30 Minute interview on his book, Complications. With Hugh LaFollette, On "Ideas and Issues" WET-FM.