Being Mortal
ATULGAWANDEistheauthorofthreebestsellingbooks:
Complications,afinalist fortheNationalBookAward;
Better,selectedbyAmazon.com asoneofthetenbest
booksof2007;andTheChecklistManifesto.Heisalsoa
surgeonatBrighamandWomen’sHospitalinBoston,a
staff writer for the New Yorker, and a professor at
Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of
PublicHealth.HehaswontheLewisThomasPrizefor
WritingaboutScience,aMacArthurFellowship,andtwo
NationalMagazineAwards.Inhisworkinpublichealth,
heisdirectorofAriadneLabs,ajointcentreforhealth
systeminnovation,andchairmanofLifebox,anonprofit
organisation making surgery safer globally. In 2014,
GawandegavetheRadio 4 ReithLecturesseries,entitled
‘TheFutureofMedicine’,baseduponBeingMortal.He
and his wife have three children and live in Newton,
Massachusetts.