Vin Gupta is an American pulmonologist who is a medical analyst for

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and

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. He also serves as a senior principal scientist with

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, affiliate professor with the

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's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, attending physician at Virginia Mason Medical Center, and lead officer of the

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for the

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Reserves, based at Joint Base Lewis–McChord.

Career

Education and medical career

Gupta attended

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, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) is the graduate medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Founded i ...

in 2011, and completed his residency in internal medicine at

. He did a fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at

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in Boston from 2014 to 2017. As part of the

Reserves, he completed commissioned officer training in 2015. He also got his Master of Studies in

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from the

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in 2015, and a

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from

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in 2017. In 2018, Gupta moved back to the Seattle area to work with the

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and the Swedish Medical Center. In January 2020, Gupta joined

where he later served as the company's

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for COVID-19 response and is currently a senior principal in their Devices and Services group. Also in 2020, he left Swedish Medical and joined the Virginia Mason Medical Center; he remains an affiliate faculty member at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Evans School; both organizations are part of the

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Media contributor and other ventures

Since 2020, Gupta has worked as a high-profile medical analyst for NBC media, serving as an

and

medical contributor on issues related to the

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and other public health issues. According to ''

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'', he made "hundreds" of appearances in 2020 alone to provide medical guidance to the public. Prior to the pandemic, Gupta has spoken and written on a range of public health issues, including

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, and gun violence. Gupta serves on the Board of Directors of the

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and

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. He is also a Term Member of the

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. In July 2022,

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first reported that Gupta was the leading candidate for a top role within the Biden administration, specifically as Principal Medical Advisor to the US Food and Drug Administration. In this role, Gupta would "be charged primarily with improving the FDA’s image and boosting public trust in the agency as a public health authority." This follows prior speculation that Gupta was short-listed for United States Surgeon General by President Biden shortly after the latter's election in 2020, amid other reporting that he was under consideration. The US Military magazine ''Reserve+National Guard'' described Gupta in their 2022 profile as "(he) might be America's next most widely recognized medical expert on the pandemic" after

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References

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