As one of the most talked-about figures, Sanjay Gupta has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.

What is Sanjay Gupta's net worth and salary?

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Gupta joined CNN as a medical correspondent in the summer of 2001. Gupta's journalism career really took off in 2003 when he traveled to Iraq in order to cover medical facets of the story of the Iraq invasion for CNN. There, he not only reported on medical stories but actually performed emergency surgery on both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. Gupta was embedded with a Navy medical unit at the time with a group of doctors called the "Devil Docs," who supported the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. A Marine suffered a severe head injury, and the Marines asked for Gupta's assistance because of his background in neurosurgery. The man survived and was sent back to the United States for rehabilitation.

Sanjay Gupta was born on October 23, 1969, in the Detroit suburb of Novi, Michigan. His parents, Subhash and Damyanti Gupta had immigrated from India to Michigan in the 1960s. They met in Livonia, Michigan, where they were both engineers for the Ford Motor Company. His mother, Damyanti Gupta, was the first female engineer hired by Ford Motor Company.

In 1997, Gupta was one of 15 selected to be White House Fellows. During the year-long fellowship, he wrote healthcare speeches for then-First LadyHillary Clinton.

Sanjay has a younger brother named Suneel. Gupta is of Punjabi and Sindhi descent. When he was a boy, he experienced prejudice and bullying. Wanting to fit in, he proposed changing his name to Steve, inspired bySteve Austinof TV'sThe Six Million Dollar Man. His mother talked him out of it.

Gupta is an Emory Healthcare general neurosurgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital and has worked on spine, trauma, and 3D‑image-guided operations. He has published medical journal articles on percutaneous pedicle screw placement (placement of screws by needle puncture rather than cutting through tissue), brain tumors, and spinal cord abnormalities. He is licensed to practice medicine in New York, Michigan, Georgia, and South Carolina. He holds the titles of assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sanjay Gupta graduated from Novi High School in 1986. Sanjay went on to get his Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical sciences at the University of Michigan in 1991. While an undergrad, he was an orientation leader for the freshman orientation program and was also a member of the Men's Glee Club. He received his M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1993. He was part of an accelerated medical education program called Inteflex (since discontinued) that accepted medical school students directly from high school. Gupta did his residency in neurological surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, completing it in 2000. He then did a fellowship in Memphis, Tennessee at the Semmes Murphy Clinic.

Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, actor, and writer who has a net worth of $12 million. Sanjay Gupta is considered by many to be one of the most respected journalists on CNN, where he is the Chief Medical Correspondent. He is the associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine.

Ultimately, Sanjay Gupta's financial journey is a testament to their success.

Disclaimer: All net worth figures are estimates based on public data.