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Sanjay Gupta to keynote Michigan Medical school commencement
Gupta previously delivered the university’s spring commencement address in 2012.
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Staff Reporter - Fri, 13, Mar 2026
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Indian American neurosurgeon and medical journalist and writer Sanjay Gupta will deliver the 2026 commencement address at the University of Michigan Medical School, the university announced.
Gupta, a University of Michigan alumnus, is a multiple award-winning journalist and host of the CNN podcast Chasing Life. As CNN’s chief medical correspondent, he contributes reporting on health and medical news across the network’s shows and platforms.
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Over the past 25 years, he has hosted or produced more than 100 documentary films and has increasingly focused on long-form reporting.
His reporting on medical marijuana led to the documentary series Weed, which received the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award. Gupta also hosted the CNN original series Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, in which he traveled globally to explore factors contributing to longer and healthier lives.
Since joining CNN in 2001, Gupta has reported on major health and humanitarian crises worldwide, including conflicts, natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
During several assignments, he performed emergency brain surgery in field conditions, including on desert battlefields, field hospitals and military ships. For those efforts, he received the In the Midst of Heroes Award.
He reported from New York following the September 11 attacks and covered the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka, which contributed to CNN’s 2005 duPont-Columbia Award. Gupta also contributed to CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which earned a Peabody Award.
His reporting on Charity Hospital after Katrina won a 2006 News & Documentary Emmy Award, and his coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake earned two additional Emmy awards. In 2018, he co-hosted Finding Hope: Battling America’s Suicide Crisis, which also received an Emmy.
In addition to his journalism, Gupta serves as an associate professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital.
He is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurosurgery and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
The ceremony is scheduled from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on May 15 at Hill Auditorium.
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