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For the Bollywood director of the same name see Sanjay Gupta (Director)

Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is a first generation Indian-American physician and a contributing CNN senior health correspondent based in Atlanta, Georgia. An Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory University and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, he is also a frequent guest on the news program Anderson Cooper 360°. "Charity Hospital", a news report he filed for Anderson Cooper 360°, won a 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast. From 1997 to 1998 he served as one of fifteen White House Fellows, primarily as an advisor to Hillary Clinton. Dr. Gupta currently publishes a column in TIME magazine.

Background

Gupta grew up in Template:City-state, and received both his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan in Template:City-state. He completed his residency in neurological surgery within the University of Michigan Health System. His father and mother moved from India to Novi, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan to work as engineers at the Ford Dearborn Plant in the 1960s.

In 2003, Gupta traveled to Iraq to cover the medical aspects of 2003 invasion of Iraq. While in Iraq, Gupta performed emergency surgery on both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Gupta was embedded with a Marine medical unit at the time. A Marine named Jesus Vidana suffered a severe head injury and the Marines asked for Gupta's assistance because of his background in neurosurgery. Vidana survived and was sent back to the United States for rehabilitation. Gupta was named one of the Sexiest Men of 2003 by People magazine, along with his fellow CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

In December of 2006, CBS News President Sean McManus negotiated a deal with CNN that will have Gupta file up to 10 reports a year for "The Evening News With Katie Couric" while remaining CNN’s chief medical correspondent and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital.

Medical practice

Dr. Gupta specializes in all facets of neurosurgical care with a strong interest in complicated spine, trauma and 3-D image guided operations . He has recently had articles published in the Journal of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Focus on percutaneous pedicle screw placement . He has also published on brain tumors and spinal cord abnormalities .

Michael Moore controversy

A July 9, 2007 broadcast of CNN's The Situation Room aired a "fact check" segment in which Gupta attempted to verify facts in Michael Moore's 2007 film Sicko. Immediately following the segment, Moore was interviewed live on CNN by Wolf Blitzer. Moore stated that Gupta's report was inaccurate and biased, and later posted a detailed response on his website. Moore accused CNN and Gupta of being biased in favor of the drug industry because most of the sponsors for their medical coverage, including Dr. Gupta's reports, were drug companies. On July 15, 2007, CNN released a statement in response to Michael Moore's rebuttal. In it, they apologized for a single error in their on-air report, having stated that in the film Moore reported Cuba spends $25 per person for health care when the film actually reported that number to be $251. CNN blamed this on a transcription error which was corrected on-air multiple times in the following days. CNN defended the rest of Dr. Gupta's report and issued a point-by-point response to Moore's response in which CNN contended that Moore's comparison of data from different sources in different years was in effect "cherry picking" results at the cost of statistical accuracy. In that statement CNN also admitted that Gupta had committed a second error in the King interview regarding the background of one of the commentators.

Merck Gardasil controversy

A July 25, 2007 article on the left-wing counterpunch.org accuses Gupta of publicly backing the drug Gardasil (a cervical cancer drug) while at the same time being significantly sponsored by the manufacturer, Merck. Gupta's television show "AccentHealth" is underwritten by Merck. url=http://www.counterpunch.org/martens07202007.html

Craniometry controversy

During a May 17, 2007 interview on the CNN Paula Zahn Show, Dr. Gupta interviewed Asian-American college students to find out why they are considered to be intellectually superior to Americans of other ethnicities.

Gupta stated that "Some scientific evidence suggests that, yes, Asians might just be smarter by nature genetically, higher scores on I.Q. tests, larger cranium sizes, faster reaction time. There's even a study of Asian children adopted and raised by white parents which shows that they, too, have higher I.Q. scores."

Gupta's citing of "larger cranium sizes" as evidence that Asians are smarter by nature, genetically, is reminiscent of the scientifically disproven theory of Craniometry which purports that the larger the cranium, the more intelligent the person. These theories have been used to justify racial discrimination, the Nazi genocide, and racial segregation.

References

1. Gupta: Saving Lives on the Front Lines - CNN.com
2. Transcripts. THE SITUATION ROOM. CNN's Dr. Gupta looks at "Sicko" and Some Facts Are Incorrect. Aired July 9, 2007 - 1900ET
3. "'SiCKO' Truth Squad Sets CNN Straight". Michael moore. 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
4. "CNN's response to Michael Moore". CNN.com/entertainment. CNN. 2007-07-15. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
5. "CNN's response to Michael Moore". CNN.com/entertainment. CNN. 2007-07-15. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
6. url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/16/pzn.01.html%7C accessdate =2007-08-02
7. url=http://en.wikipedia.org/Craniometry

External links

• Sanjay Gupta CNN biography
• Profile of Sanjay Gupta on tvweek.com
• Michael Moore on CNN
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• American physicians
• Indian Americans
• Neurosurgeons
• University of Michigan alumni
• American Hindus