Rahul Jandial is an American, dual-trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist. He is also an author with his books translated to over 10 languages.

Academic

Jandial's published research^[1] has appeared in journals such as Neurosurgery, Nature Medicine and Proceeding from the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored 10 academic books on topics ranging from neurosurgery to cancer biology and neuroscience.

As a professor he received the “distinguished professor award” from UCSD^[2] and has been invited as distinguished professor at Oxford and Harvard.^[3][4]

The Jandial laboratory at City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles is funded by the US Department of Defense.^[5]

Jandial earned his B.A from University of California, Berkeley — his M.D. from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles — and his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).

Author

In 2019 Penguin/Random House published Jandial’s first book Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon: The new stories and science of the mind, a Sunday Times bestseller translated into 10 languages.^[6]

In 2021 his memoir Life on a Knife’s Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival is an international bestseller with translation to 8 languages.^[7]

He has been featured in The Times of London,^[8] the Telegraph,^[9] Cosmopolitan,^[10] Mr. Porter ^[11] and GQ,^[12] and is an expert for Guardian Masterclasses.^[13]

International service

He is the founder and co-director of International Neurosurgical Children's Association,^[14] where he leads teams to teach and perform pediatric brain surgery in charity hospitals throughout Central and South America, and Eastern Europe. The efforts were featured on ABC Nightline.^[15]

Television

Rahul Jandial on Superhuman, 2018

Jandial is a long-term contributor at KTLA-TV^[16] in Los Angeles. Recently, he is also a regular contributor to the TODAY Show in Australia. He hosted Brain Surgery Live on Nat Geo with Bryant Gumbell for international broadcast and was on FOX’s primetime non-scripted Superhuman as a panelist.^[17] Brian Lowry, chief TV critic for Variety, called him the "world's most dashing neurosurgeon" in a highly positive review.^[18][19]

ABC news has called him the "real Dr. McDreamy"^[20] and VICE has featured and refers to him as the 100 percent emoji-human version.^[21]

He is represented by the talent agency - WME.^[22]

Books

• Life on a Knife’s Edge: A Brain Surgeon’s Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival, by Rahul Jandial, 2021
• Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon: The New Science and Stories of the Brain, by Rahul Jandial, 2019
• Core Techniques in Operative Neurosurgery, by Rahul Jandial, Paul McCormick, Peter M. Black, 2011, ISBN 978-1437737721
• Frontiers in Brain Repair, edited by Rahul Jandial, 2012 ^[23] ISBN 978-1461425762
• Code Blue: Bedside Procedures and Critical Information, by Rahul Jandial and Danielle Jandial, 2014 ISBN 978-1576262535
• Metastatic Cancer: Clinical and Biological Perspectives, edited by Rahul Jandial, 2013 ^[24] ISBN 978-1587066597
• Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord, edited by Rahul Jandial and Mike Y. Chen, 2012,^[25] ISBN 978-1461440895
• 100 Questions and Answers About Spine Disorders by Rahul Jandial, Henry E. Aryan, 2008, ISBN 978-0763749880
• 100 Questions and Answers About Head and Brain Injuries, by Rahul Jandial, Samuel A. Hughes, Charles B. Newman, 2008, ISBN 978-0763755720
• Neurosurgical Essentials, by Rahul Jandial, Henry E. Aryan, Peter Nakaji, 2004, ISBN 978-1576261828

Awards

• The Sunday Times Bestselling Author 2019^[26]
• Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Breakthrough Award 2015^[27] and 2019^[28]
• Distinguished Teaching Award UC San Diego 2008^[29]
• Penfield Research Award from the Congress of Neurosurgeons 2007^[30]
• Cancer Research Award: STOPCancer Foundation: 2009^[31]
• Public Service Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2004^[32]

References