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Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for the health, medical & wellness unit at CNN. Dr. Gupta, also a practicing neurosurgeon, also reports on breaking medical news, regular health reports for American Morning and Anderson Cooper 360°, anchoring the weekend medical affairs program Sanjay Gupta, MD, and reporting for CNN documentaries. Dr. Gupta also contributes to CNN.com and CNNHealth.com, co-hosts "Accent Health" for Turner Private Networks, and writes a column for TIME magazine.

Dr. Gupta was among the first journalists to arrive in Haiti immediately following the massive earthquake in January 2010, and has continued to travel regularly to Haiti to report on breaking news and the ongoing medical capacity challenges faced by the nation. In 2009, Dr. Gupta reported on the H1N1 flu from Mexico and CDC headquarters in Atlanta. During the 2008 presidential campaign year, Dr. Gupta reported on the various healthcare policy proposals put forward by the candidates. In 2006, Dr. Gupta contributed to coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, breaking the news that official reports that Charity Hospital in New Orleans had been evacuated were incorrect, and revealing that more than 200 patients remained there for five days after the storm made landfall. In 2004, Dr. Gupta was sent to Sri Lanka to cover the tsunami disaster.

Based in Atlanta, Dr. Gupta joined CNN in the summer of 2001 and led CNN's reporting on anthrax following the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City. In 2003, Dr. Gupta embedded with the US Navy's "Devil Docs" medical unit and reported from Iraq and Kuwait from points along the unit's travel to Baghdad. He also provided live coverage from a desert operating room of the first operation performed during the US-led war with Iraq. Dr. Gupta also launched CNN's anti-obesity initiatives, "New You Resolution" and "Fit Nation."

In addition to his work for CNN, Dr. Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and regularly performs surgery at Emory University and Grady hospitals. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves as a diplomat of the American Board of Neurosurgery, is a certified medical investigator, and is a board member of the Lance Armstrong LiveStrong Foundation.

Dr. Gupta is also a contributor to the newsmagazine program, 60 Minutes and to Evening News with Katie Couric on CBS, and the author of the books Chasing Life (2007) and Cheating Death (2009).

In 2003, he won the Humanitarian Award from the National Press Photographers Association. In 2004, the Atlanta Press Club named him "Journalist of the Year," and 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).

Dr. Gupta received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate of medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School. Before joining CNN, Dr. Gupta served in separate neurosurgical fellowships at the University of Tennessee's Semmes-Murphy clinic and the University of Michigan Medical Center. In 1997, he was selected as a White House Fellow, serving as a special advisor to First Lady Hillary Clinton.