Sandeep Jauhar, M.D., Ph.D.

Sandeep Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist and has written three books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. His first book, “Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation,” was a national bestseller. His forthcoming book, “My Father’s Brain,” is a memoir of his relationship with his father, especially during the last stage of his father’s life as he succumbed to dementia. The book is also about the brain and memory and the history and science of brain degeneration. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his journey toward understanding his father’s disease. He is currently a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He has appeared frequently on National Public Radio, CNN and MSNBC to discuss issues related to medicine, and his essays have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Slate. Jauhar earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics at the University of California, Berkeley, before studying medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.