30 most innovative people in Massachusetts
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1. Dr. Atul Gawande
Position: Staff member, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and writer for The New Yorker
Dr. Gawande has been highly influential in the health care debate. His New Yorker article about health care differences in El Paso and San Antonio was cited by President Obama. He has also performed research on reducing deaths, complications, and disparities in surgery in the United States and abroad, taking into account patterns of avoidable surgical complications and other surgery rates. >> Full profile