Atul Gawande named featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day
Atul Gawande. Campus & Community Atul Gawande named featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day Acclaimed surgeon, writer, and public health leader will take the stage at Harvard’s global alumni celebration on June 6 Laura Speers Harvard Correspondent March 5, 2025 5 min read Renowned surgeon, best-selling author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, M.D. ’95, M.P.H. ’99, will be the featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day, the annual University-wide celebration of the global alumni community hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association on June 6. Driven by a relentless curiosity about how health systems function — and where they fall short — Gawande has devoted his career to rethinking not just how medicine is practiced, but how it is delivered to improve health outcomes for all. As a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Gawande has fostered the next generation of physicians and...