BSc, Stanford University; MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Balliol College, Oxford University; MD, Harvard Medical School; MPH, Harvard School of Public Health. General and Endocrine Surgeon, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Staff Writer, The New Yorker magazine. Executive Director, Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health systems innovation. Chairman, Lifebox, a non-profit making surgery safer globally. Author of four New York Times bestselling books, including Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.