| Net Worth | $12 Million |
| Wife | Rebecca Olson |
Sanjay Gupta Bio
Sanjay Gupta is a notable American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and author. He is the chief medical correspondent for CNN, he holds the positions of associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and national academy of medicine.
He is known for his numerous TV appearances on health-related topics. He has been a regular contributor to multiple CNN programs addressing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in addition to holding a weekly town hall with Anderson Cooper. Gupta has received numerous Emmy Awards for his work as the host of the CNN program Sanjay Gupta MD. The six-part miniseries Chasing Life was also presented by Gupta.
He frequently contributes to CNN Tonight, Anderson Cooper 360°, Larry King Live, American Morning, and CNN Tonight. Following Hurricane Katrina, he reported from Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, which helped him win the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast. He works for CBS News as a special correspondent as well.
Sanjay Gupta Wife
Gupta is a happily married to a family law attorney Rebecca Olson. He prepared a page-long poem with the proposal on the final line when he made the proposal. Before Rebecca had finished reading the poem, he was on his knees, ready to pop the question.
On May 15, 2004, they were joined in marriage in a sumptuous Hindu ceremony at The Shell House, which is located on the premises of Ashley Hall, a private girls’ school in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sanjay Gupta Kids
Gupta and his wife live in Atlanta. They have three daughters named Sky, Sage and Soleil.
Sanjay Gupta Net Worth 2024
Gupta has an estimated net worth of $12 Million. His versatility across all of the industries he has worked in has contributed to his wealth accumulation. It is projected that as his career progresses, his net worth will rise.
| Year | Net Worth |
| 2023 | $11.5 Million |
| 2024 | $12 Million |
| 2025 | $12.8 Million |
| 2026 | $13 Million |
Sanjay Gupta Salary Today
Gupta as the diligent professional that he is, he receives a decent salary from his position. His pay is commensurate with his experience, commitment and the significant contributions he makes to his position in the company. His pay is approximately $4 Million.
Sanjay Gupta Age
Gupta was born on October 23, 1969 in Michigan, U.S. As of 2024 he is 55 years old.
Sanjay Gupta Parents
Gupta parents are Subhash and Damyanti Gupta. In the 1960s, they had moved to Michigan from India. They were both Ford Motor Company engineers when they first met in Livonia, Michigan. Ford Motor Company engaged its first female engineer, Damyanti Gupta, his mother.
Suneel is the younger brother of Sanjay. Gupta is a native of Sindhi and Punjabi. He was the target of discrimination and bullying as a young lad. He suggested renaming himself Steve in an attempt to blend in, taking inspiration from Steve Austin of The Six Million Dollar Man on television. His mother dissuaded him from doing it.
Sanjay Gupta Education
Gupta attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to study biological sciences after graduating from Novi High School alongside his younger brother Suneel. He went on to the University of Michigan Medical School to obtain his M.D. in 1993. He took part in Interflex, a now-canceled accelerated medical education program that accepted applicants directly out of high school.
Sanjay Gupta Career
Media Career
In the summer of 2001, Gupta began working as a medical correspondent for CNN. When Gupta went to Iraq in 2003 to cover the medical aspects of the narrative of the Iraq invasion for CNN, his journalism career truly took off. There, he did emergency surgery on Iraqi citizens and U.S. soldiers in addition to reporting on medical stories. Known as the “Devil Docs,” Gupta was attached to a Navy medical unit that provided support to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. Because of Gupta’s experience in neurosurgery, the Marines requested his help when one of their members sustained a serious head injury. After he made it through, the individual was returned to the US for rehabilitation.
Apart from her role as CNN’s lead medical correspondent, Gupta has also contributed to stories for 60 Minutes and The CBS Evening News. President Barack Obama extended to him in 2009 the invitation to become the United States Surgeon General, demonstrating his admirers’ respect for him as a journalist. For the sake of his “family and career,” he declined the offer, and he will always be seen on CNN.
Gupta and Anderson Cooper oversaw CNN’s coverage of the Haitian earthquake in January 2010. Gupta has made frequent appearances on several television shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Gupta declared in a 2013 editorial that he has changed his perspective about the advantages and disadvantages of marijuana while working on a documentary about the drug. Gupta said, “I am here to apologize,” and “We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.” He has previously criticized laws that enabled patients access to medical marijuana. In April 2015, the third segment of his three-hour documentary, Weed 3: The Marijuana Revolution, was made available.
Medical Career
Gupta was chosen as one of the fifteen White House Fellows in 1997. He wrote speeches on healthcare for then-First Lady Hillary Clinton throughout the fellowship’s year. He is a general neurosurgeon with Emory Healthcare who practices at Grady Memorial Hospital. He has experience with 3D image-guided procedures, trauma, and the spine. He has written articles for medical journals on brain tumors, anomalies of the spinal cord, and percutaneous pedicle screw placement—the process of placing screws by puncturing a needle instead of cutting through tissue.
He has medical licenses to practice in South Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, and New York. He is employed as an associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and as an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine.
