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Jonathan LaPook
Chief Medical Correspondent for CBS Evening News & Professor of Medicine at NYU; Executive Director of the NYU Langone Empathy Project
Jonathan LaPook is Chief Medical Correspondent for CBS News and Mebane Professor of Gastroenterology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine as well as the Founder and Executive Director of the NYU Langone Empathy Project, which seeks to promote a culture of empathy in medicine. As a physician and broadcast journalist, Dr. LaPook's career sits at the intersection of medicine, media and public health.
Over the years, LaPook has covered wide-ranging international and national health issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, 2010 earthquake in Haiti and ensuing cholera outbreak, the outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico as well as health topics such as Alzheimer's, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental health, gun violence, vaccine hesitancy, AIDS, traumatic brain injury and healthcare inequity.
Dr. LaPook has won numerous awards, including five Emmys, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Gracie Award and a New York Press Club Award for Journalism. LaPook graduated with honors from Yale University and received his M.D. from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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