Dr. Gawande offers a unique perspective on the practice of medicine, ethics, health care and the human struggle to do better. In his most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto, he argues that the use of simple checklists can improve our efforts in many fields—especially health care—in today’s complex world. Dr. Gawande is a practicing surgeon, a staff writer for The New Yorker and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He served as a senior health policy adviser in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. He has authored three bestselling books and is recognized as one of the world’s most influential thinkers. He has won two National Magazine Awards, Academy Health’s Impact Award for highest research impact on health care, a MacArthur Award, and selection by Foreign Policy magazine and TIME magazine as one of the world’s top 100 influential thinkers.