Sandeep Jauhar
Cardiologist and author
Sandeep Jauhar is an Indian-American cardiologist who lives on Long Island and writes about medicine. He wrote Heart: A History, a Wellcome Book Prize finalist.
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American Born 1968
About Sandeep Jauhar
Sandeep Jauhar is a cardiologist who also writes books and essays. He has contributed to The New York Times as a writer since 2015, and his essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, TIME and Slate. His books include Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Doctored, Heart: A History and My Father's Brain. Heart: A History was a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize, and it was chosen for January 2019 by the book club of PBS NewsHour and the New York Times. NBC optioned Intern for a television drama. My Father's Brain is his memoir about his father's dementia. His TED Talk on the emotional heart ranked among the ten most-watched of 2019.