Sanjiv Chopra

Sanjiv Chopra
Sanjiv Chopra in his office at Harvard Medical School
Born	(1949-09-09) September 9, 1949 (age 68) Pune, India
Occupation	Professor of Medicine, Former Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. Author and Public Speaker.
Nationality	Indian, American
Alma mater	St. Columba's School, Delhi; Hans Raj College; New Delhi; All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
Spouse	Amita Rani Chopra, MD
Children	Priya, Kanika, and Bharat Chopra Grandchildren = Aanya & Mira
Website
www.sanjivchopra.com

Priya, Kanika, and Bharat Chopra

Sanjiv Chopra, M.B.B.S, M.A.C.P, is an Indian-born American physician, Professor of Medicine and former Faculty Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Harvard Medical School, Senior Consultant in Hepatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author.

Born in Poona, India, two years after India’s independence from British rule, Chopra was inspired from a young age to follow in the footsteps of his father, Krishan Chopra (1919–2002) a renowned Indian cardiologist. Krishan Chopra was a Fellow of the Royal Hospital of Physicians and served as head of the Department of Medicine and Cardiology at Mool Chand Khairati Ram Hospital, New Delhi, for over 25 years. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Indian Army. Sanjiv Chopra’s paternal grandfather was a sergeant in the British Army. Chopra’s older brother, Deepak Chopra, is also a physician, as well as a holistic health expert and spiritual guru and perhaps the most famous of America’s complementary medicine practitioners.

Chopra married Amita Rani Chopra at the young age of 20. They were classmates at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Amita is a pediatrician who currently serves as an adjunct staff at Boston Children's Hospital and guest faculty at RxRelax Therapeutic Yoga training for Healthcare professionals. They moved to the United States in 1972. They have three children.

Sanjiv Chopra graduated with honors in English literature from St. Columbas High School in Delhi in 1964. He did his premedical qualification from Hans Raj College, Delhi University. He graduated from Medical School from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). In 1972 he came to the United States for post-graduate training. After a year of Internship in Internal Medicine in New Jersey, he moved to Boston in 1973. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, from 1975 - 1977. He has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1979.

Chopra was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2009, an award given to individuals for being “citizen physicians, educational innovators, scientific thinkers and humanists who inspire those around him or her and sets the standards for quality in medicine.”