Jon LaPook Biography
Jonathan LaPook is the Chief Medical Correspondent for CBS News and an American board-certified physician in internal medicine and gastroenterology. He is a Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and has an active medical practice in New York City. He was named the Mebane Professor of Gastroenterology in 2013. In 2006, he joined CBS News.
Jon LaPook Age
LaPook is 68 years old as of 2021. He was born on 1 September 1953 in Mineola, New York, United States.
Jon LaPook Height
LaPook stands at a height of 5 feet and 6 inches(1.5 m).
Jon LaPook Family
LaPook is the son of Elsa (née Eisenbud) and Sidney LaPook, a dentist and World War II, veteran. Judith LaPook, Nancy LaPook Diamond, and Corinne LaPook are his three sisters.
Jon LaPook Education
LaPook received his M.D. in 1980 after graduating with honors from Yale University and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. At New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, he completed an internal medicine residency and a gastrointestinal fellowship.
Jon LaPook Salary
LaPook earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Jon LaPook Net Worth
LaPook has an estimated Net Worth of $1 million.
Jon LaPook Medicine
LaPook began practicing gastrointestinal and internal medicine at Columbia in 1986. He went on to become a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where he continued to teach. LaPook has contributed to the development of an electronic textbook of medicine and written a medical practice management software package that he sold in 1999 to a business that was eventually acquired by Emdeon Corporation, the parent company of WebMD. He is a published author who is passionate about educating the general public about health issues.
LaPook is the originator of the NYU Langone Empathy Project, whose purpose is to improve the interactions between health professionals and patients by developing a video-based curriculum that teaches empathy to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. The Empathy Project aims to foster a culture of empathy in medicine by teaching patients to expect and demand it. It will bring together leaders in medicine, technology, and entertainment to make short films that will address key concerns between patients and medical caregivers. The concept is that a positive interpersonal interaction between the patient and caregiver is essential to providing quality medical treatment.
Jon LaPook Career
Dr. LaPook is particularly interested in incorporating media and the arts into medical education in order to improve the relationship between doctors and patients. He has also contributed to the development of an electronic textbook of medicine and written a medical practice management software package that he sold in 1999 to a firm that was eventually acquired by Emdeon Corporation, the parent company of WebMD.
LaPook is a regular contributor to all CBS News shows and platforms. He has done over 1,000 reports since joining CBS News in 2006, contributing to “CBS Evening News,” “60 Minutes,” “CBS Mornings,” “CBS Sunday Morning,” “Face the Nation,” and Mo Rocca (“Mobituaries”). LaPook has won three Emmys for his coverage of the national medication crisis in 2012, team coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, and Outstanding Program for “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2019.
He received a Gracie Award in the News Feature Series category from The Alliance for Women in Media in 2018 for two landmarks “60 Minutes” reports that probed a sexual abuse scandal involving American elite gymnasts, USA Gymnastics, and Aly Raisman. In 2018, LaPook was designated a nominee for the George Foster Peabody Award for those two “60 Minutes” investigative reports on the gymnastics scandal. In 2007 and 2013, he received two Edward R. Murrow Awards for “Best Broadcast.” He also received a 2015 New York Press Club Journalism Award for his work on the WCBS-AM News Team Special “Eye on Ebola.” For his documentary series Doc Dot Com, he received a Webby Award in 2010.
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