Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard University School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. He has been awarded the Lewis Thomas Award for Best Scientific Text, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and two National Magazine Foundation Awards. In his work in the field of public health, he is a director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for innovation in health systems, and president of Lifebox, a non-profit organization that aspires to safer surgery throughout the world. world. Gawande is the author of four highly successful books: Complications, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Best, which was chosen by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; The Checklist Effect and Being Deadly, published in 2018 by Galaxia Gutenberg. Atul Gawande and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.