Dr. Sanjiv Chopra

Dr. Sanjiv Chopra is professor of medicine and faculty dean for continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School, and director of clinical hepatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

He is the author most recently, alongside Dr. Alan Lotvin, of the book Doctor Chopra Says: Medical Facts & Myths Everyone Should Know(2010, St. Martin’s Press). Dr. Chopra is also the author of The Liver Book; and he has approximately 100 publications and four specialist books to his credit, and is an editor-in-chief of UpToDate in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

With wisdom and wit, Sanjiv Chopra shows how to navigate the vast sea of health information, from vaccines to vitamins, cold remedies to colonoscopies, marijuana to mammograms.

Dr. Chopra has received a number of teaching awards, including: the George W. Thorn Award, in 1985, presented by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital House staff, Harvard Medical School, for his outstanding contribution to clinical education; the Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest accolade given by the graduating class of Harvard Medical School, in 1991; the Robert S. Stone Award, for an outstanding clinician and teacher chosen by colleagues, housestaff and students from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and the American Gastroenterological Association’s Distinguished Educator Award in 2003.

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