Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and author. He is presently associated with the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, as associate chief of the neurosurgery service, and with Emory University School of Medicine as associate professor of neurosurgery. He also serves as chief medical correspondent for CNN and as a special correspondent for CBS News. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Over the years, he has earned recognition featuring and contributing on several television shows on health and medical related issues. These include hosting the CNN aired medical-centric news program Sanjay Gupta MD that earned him several Emmy Awards; and featuring on many other CNN television shows and specials like CNN Tonight, American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360° and Larry King Live. He often featured on different CNN shows during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and provided information about the illness and later on the COVID-19 vaccines. He has also earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for the reports he made on the situation of Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricane Katrina. Thus far, he has authored four books including Chasing Life and Cheating Death.