Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the multiple Emmy® award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, plays an integral role in CNN's reporting on health and medical news for all of CNN's shows domestically and internationally, and contributes to CNN.com. His medical training and public health policy experience distinguishes his reporting from war zones and natural disasters, as well as on a range of medical and scientific topics, including the opioid crisis, Pandemic outbreaks, brain injury, disaster recovery, health care reform, fitness, military medicine, and medicinal marijuana.

Dr. Gupta is the host of Vital Signs for CNN, as well as the host of CNN Original Series "Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta," which follows Gupta's travels around the world in search of the secret to living longer, healthier, and happier. Dr. Gupta also stars in the HBO Original Documentary "One Nation Under Stress," which examines why life expectancy is declining in the United States.

Since 2001, Dr. Gupta has covered the most important health stories in the United States and around the world. In 2017, Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported from the front lines of a breakdown in the medical infrastructure of Puerto Rico, devastated by Hurricane Maria. He also broke the news about Senator John McCain's diagnosis with Glioblastoma. In 2016, Dr. Gupta told the exclusive story of the separation of craniopagus twins Jaden and Anias McDonald, Separated: Saving the Twins. Gupta extensively covered the Flint, MI. water crisis and Pulse nightclub shooting. That same year he moderated a panel with President Barack Obama on the Opioid crisis. When the earthquake hit Nepal in 2015, Gupta flew into Kathmandu to cover the aftermath. 2014, he traveled to Conakry Guinea Africa to investigate the deadly Ebola outbreak that would soon find its way the US for the first time.