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Born: October 23, 1969 Sanjay Gupta is an American physician and a contributing CNN chief health correspondent based in Atlanta, Georgia. An Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory University and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, he is also a frequent guest on the news program Anderson Cooper 360°. "Charity Hospital", won a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast. From 1997 to 1998 he served as one of fifteen White House Fellows, primarily as an advisor to Hillary Clinton. Gupta currently publishes a column in TIME magazine. He is also host of House Call with Dr Sanjay Gupta. His book Chasing Life was a New York Times and National bestseller. Sanjay Gupta grew up in Novi, Michigan on the outskirts of Detroit and received both his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He completed his residency in neurological surgery within the University of Michigan Health System. His father and mother moved from India to Michigan to work as engineers at the Ford Dearborn Plant in the 1960s. He also completed a portion of his residency at St. Lawrence Hospital (now a part of Sparrow Health Network) in Lansing, MI. In 2003, Gupta traveled to Iraq to cover the medical aspects of 2003 invasion of Iraq. While in Iraq, Gupta performed emergency surgery on both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Gupta was embedded with a Marine medical unit at the time. A Marine named Jesus Vidana suffered a severe head injury and the Marines asked for Gupta's assistance because of his background in neurosurgery. Vidana survived and was sent back to the United States for rehabilitation. Gupta was named one of the Sexiest Men of 2003 by People magazine. In December of 2006, CBS News President Sean McManus negotiated a deal with CNN that will have Gupta file up to 10 reports a year for "The Evening News With Katie Couric" and "60 minutes" while remaining CNN’s chief medical correspondent and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital. FEC filings show political campaign contributions by Gupta of $200 in 2000 and $8000 in 2003, both to Democratic Party candidates. Sanjay Gupta specializes in all facets of neurosurgical care with a strong interest in complicated spine, trauma and 3-D image guided operations. He has recently had articles published in the Journal of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Focus on percutaneous pedicle screw placement[citation needed]. He has also published on brain tumors and spinal cord abnormalities[citation needed]. |
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