Dr. Sanjay Gupta Biography
Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and author from the United States. He is the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and CNN’s chief medical correspondent.
How Dr. Sanjay Gupta? – Age
Gupta is 52 years old as of October 23, 2021. He was born in 1969 in Novi, Michigan, U.S.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Family – Education
Subhash and Damyanti Gupta moved from India prior to their marriage and met in Livonia, Michigan, where they worked as engineers for Ford Motor Company in the 1960s. His mother was born in the village of Tharushah in Sindh (now Pakistan), but fled to India as a Hindu refugee at the age of five during India’s Partition.
Gupta and his younger brother Suneel graduated from Novi High School, and Gupta went on to earn his Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, as well as his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, both in 1993. He was a member of Inteflex, a now-defunct accelerated medical education program that accepted medical students straight out of high school.
How many wives has Sanjay Gupta had? – Wife
His wife Rebecca Olson, is a family law attorney. They married in a Hindu wedding ceremony in 2004. They have three daughters and live in Atlanta.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Net Worth
Gupta has an estimated net worth of $12 Million.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Salary
Gupta earns a massive salary of $4 Million.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Medicine
Gupta, an Emory Healthcare general neurosurgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital, has experience with spine, trauma, and 3D image-guided procedures. He has written articles for medical journals about percutaneous pedicle screw placement, brain tumors, and spinal cord abnormalities.
He is a licensed physician in Georgia. During his reporting in Haiti in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, Gupta received a call from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson informing him that an earthquake victim, a 12-year-old girl, was aboard and required the services of a neurosurgeon. In an operation performed aboard the Vinson, Gupta, a pediatric surgeon, Henri Ford, and two US Navy doctors removed a piece of concrete from the girl’s skull.
Gupta “proved to be a competent neurosurgeon,” Ford wrote later. He was one of fifteen White House Fellows from 1997 to 1998, primarily as an advisor to Hillary Clinton. Gupta was offered the position of Surgeon General of the United States in the Obama Administration in January 2009, but he withdrew his name from consideration.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta House
Everything in his home was hand-picked and purchased by him. Sanjay believes that a home should reflect a person’s travels and personality. His house has four levels, with the ground level housing a lovely lobby, a guest bedroom and bathroom, and a massive home theater. A beautiful staircase with large paintings and sculptures leads up to the first level, which has a large L-shaped living room, a kitchen, and a spacious and open sit-out with various plants. The balcony is light and airy, with comfortable and inviting seating arrangements.
A sophisticated piano sits at the entrance to the living room, and on the right side, there are clusters of comfortable-looking sofas. The other end of the living room is occupied by a small bar area and a large dining table laden with long-stemmed, fresh flowers. Sanjay is aware of his home in a way that few men are — from the plants, furniture, art, and sculpture to the smallest detail of the décor.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta CNN – Journalism
In the summer of 2001, Gupta joined CNN. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, he reported from New York. Gupta traveled to Iraq in 2003 to cover the medical aspects of the Iraq invasion. During the Iraq War, he was embedded with a Navy medical unit known as the “Devil Docs.” Gupta performed emergency surgery on US soldiers as well as Iraqi civilians.
In 2006, CBS News president Sean McManus negotiated a deal in which Gupta would file up to ten reports per year for the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes while continuing to serve as CNN’s chief medical correspondent. In 2010, Oprah Winfrey referred to Gupta as her hero, and he portrayed himself in the 2011 film Contagion. When his novel Monday Mornings was released in March 2012, it became an instant New York Times bestseller. “Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution,” the third installment of his three-hour documentary, was released in April 2015.