Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
General Surgery
Dr. Atul A. Gawande, MD
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Atul A. Gawande practices General Surgery. He went to medical school at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He received 7 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Boston Magazine", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Elected Member", "Top MD", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Fellow (FACS)". Atul Gawande is a published physician as well. He has 34 publications published. The latest was: Bethesda Categorization of Thyroid Nodule Cytology & Prediction of Thyroid Cancer Type and Prognosis. He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Bethesda Categorization of Thyroid Nodule Cytology & Prediction of Thyroid Cancer Type and Prognosis.
- A checklist for endonasal transsphenoidal anterior skull base surgery.
- Sustainability and Long-term Effectiveness of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Combined With Pulse Oximetry in a Resource-Limited Setting: Two-Year Update From Moldova.
- What Do We Know About the Safe Surgery Checklist Now?
- False negative cytology in large Thyroid nodules.
- Using the jackknife for estimation in log link Bernoulli regression models.
- Areas of Overlap.
- Pitfalls in Communication That Lead to Nonbeneficial Emergency Surgery in Elderly Patients With Serious Illness: Description of the Problem and Elements of a Solution.
- Conversations about Treatment Preferences before High-Risk Surgery: A Pilot Study in the Preoperative Testing Center.
- Almost efficient estimation of relative risk regression.
- Temporal variation in surgical mortality within French hospitals.
- Preventable acute care spending for medicare patients-reply.
- Pilot Testing of a Model for Insurer-Driven, Large-Scale Multicenter Simulation Training for Operating Room Teams.
- Variation in surgical-readmission rates and quality of hospital care.
- Hospital Management Practices and Availability of Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Pilot Study of Three Hospitals.
- Mortality for publicly reported conditions and overall hospital mortality rates.
- Contribution of preventable acute care spending to total spending for high-cost Medicare patients.
- Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: A nationwide study.
- Relationship between unplanned readmission and total treatment-related hospital days following management of complicated appendicitis at 31 children's hospitals.
- Surgery at the End of Life: A Pilot Study Comparing Decedents and Survivors at a Tertiary Care Center.
- Relationship between occurrence of surgical complications and hospital finances.
- Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting.
- Bias correction for the proportional odds logistic regression model with application to a study of surgical complications.
- Evaluation of Surgical Care in El Salvador Using the WHO Surgical Vital Statistics.
- Bilateral Neck Exploration Decreases Operative Time Compared to Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy in Patients with Discordant Imaging.
- Thyroid nodule size and prediction of Cancer.
- Simulation-based trial of surgical-crisis checklists.
- Hemorrhagic shock as the initial manifestation of pheochromocytoma: report of a sequential management strategy.
- Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health: Prospective Pilot Study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program.
- Prevention of retained surgical sponges: a decision-analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness.
- Surgical apgar outcome score: perioperative risk assessment for radical cystectomy.
- Simple methods of determining confidence intervals for functions of estimates in published results.
- Bronchogenic cyst masquerading as an adrenal Tumor: a case of mistaken identity.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Brigham And Womans Hospital
Brigham and Women39s Hospital
Harvard School Of Public Health
Stanford University
Balliol College University Of Oxford
Harvard School Of Public Health Mph
Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health Professor
Harvard Medical School Professor of Surgery
Procedures Preformed
- Colectomy
- Embolectomy, Thrombectomy, or Vessel Exploration
- Excision of Stomach Tumor
- Excision, Shaving, or Destruction of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue (incl. Mohs Micrographic Surgery), Tissue Transfer
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Conditions Treated
- Atelectasis
- Breast Cancer
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
- HyperparaThyroidism
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Fallon Community Health Plan
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston Magazine
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Elected Member
- Top MD
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute -
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital -
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1578671483 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | GAWANDE | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ATUL | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 02115 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 41.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1578671483 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | GAWANDE |
| First Name Of The Provider | ATUL |
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