Rahul Jandial is an American, dual-trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist. He is also a London Times bestselling & international bestselling author with his books translated into over 30 languages.[1]
Academic
Jandial's published research[2] has appeared in journals such as 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[3] and has been invited as distinguished professor at Oxford and Harvard.[4][5]
The Jandial laboratory at City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles is funded by the US Department of Defense.[6][7]
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, and international bestseller translated into 10 languages.[8]
In 2021, his memoir Life on a Knife’s Edge: A Brain Surgeon's Reflections on Life, Loss and Survival is translated to 8 languages.[9]
This is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life was released in 2024 and is being translated to 30 languages.
He has been featured in The Times of London,[10] the Telegraph,[11] NY Mag,[12] The Wall Street Journal,[13] Der Spiegel, Cosmopolitan,[14] Mr. Porter [15] and GQ,[16] and is an expert for Guardian Masterclasses.[17]
International service
He is the founder and co-director of International Neurosurgical Children's Association,[18] 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.[19]
Television
Rahul Jandial on Superhuman, 2018
Since 2009, Jandial is a long-term contributor at KTLA-TV[20] in Los Angeles. In 2019, he became 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.[21] Brian Lowry, chief TV critic for Variety, called him the "world's most dashing neurosurgeon" in a highly positive review.[22][23]
ABC news has called him the "real Dr. McDreamy"[24] and VICE has featured and refers to him as the 100 percent emoji-human version.[25]
