Sanjay Gupta (neurosurgeon)

Sanjay Gupta (neurosurgeon)

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Sanjay Gupta (neurosurgeon) Profile

  • Name:
  • Sanjay Gupta (neurosurgeon)
  • Born:
  • October 23, 1969
  • Father:
  • Subhash Pryanka
  • Mother:
  • Damayanti Gupta
  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Olson

Sanjay Gupta (neurosurgeon) Biography

Sanjay Gupta is an Indian-American Neurosurgeon. He is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in US to Indian parents - Subhash Pryanka and Damayanti Gupta. He is best known as CNN's multiple Emmy award winning chief medical correspondent, a media personality on health related issues and a successful host for many health related problems on television. Gupta was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on April 28, 2012. He has also published a few books of which Chasing Life and Cheating Death are all time best sellers.

 

Sanjay Gupta was born in Novi, Michigan, United States on October 23, 1969 to Indian parents, Subhash Pryanka and Damayanti Gupta. His parents moved to US during 1960’s and got settled there. But Sanjay married in typical Hindu ceremony. Gupta took Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Michigan and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1993. He completed his residency in neurological surgery within the University of Michigan Health System in 2000.

 

At present Sanjay Gupta is an Emory Healthcare general neurosurgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital. He has published numerous articles in many leading medical journals on different subjects. In 2012, he successfully completed an operation, removing a piece of concrete from a 12-year-old girl’s skull (an earth quake victim) which was one of the major successful operations. Gupta performed emergency surgery on both US soldiers and Iraqi civilians during 2003 invasion of Iraq. On January 6, 2009, CNN announced that Gupta had been considered for the position of Surgeon General by President Barack Obama. But in March 2009 Gupta withdrew his name from consideration for the post, citing his family and career. In January 2011, he was named "one of the 10 most influential celebrities" by Forbes magazine.

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Updated: January 23, 2014

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