Jonathan 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.
Jonathan LaPook Age
LaPook is 68 years old as of 2021. He was born Jonathan David LaPook on 1 September 1953 in Mineola, New York, United States.
Jonathan LaPook Height
LaPook stands at a height of 5 feet and 6 inches(1.75m).
Jonathan LaPook Family
LaPook was born to Elsa and Sidney LaPook, a dentist and World War II veteran. Judith LaPook, Nancy LaPook Diamond, and Corinne LaPook are his three sisters.
Jonathan LaPook Wife – Sons
LaPook is married to Kate Lear, the daughter of famed TV producer Norman Lear. The couple has two boys together.
Jonathan 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.
Jonathan LaPook Medicine Career
Dr. 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 mission is to improve the interactions between doctors and patients by developing a video-based curriculum that teaches empathy to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
LaPook developed The Empathy Project at NYU Langone Medical Center in 2014, with the concept that a positive interpersonal interaction between the patient and the caregiver is essential to providing quality medical treatment. The Empathy Project aims to foster a culture of empathy in medicine by teaching patients to expect and demand it, as well as training healthcare personnel to be more compassionate and effective. It will bring together leaders in medicine, technology, and entertainment to make short films that will address key concerns between patients and medical caregivers.
Jonathan LaPook Salary
LaPook earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Jonathan LaPook Net Worth
LaPook has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Jonathan LaPook CBS Evening News
LaPook began working as a Medical Correspondent for the “CBS Evening News” in 2006, with host Katie Couric. He was named CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent in 2013, and he has been on “CBS This Morning,” “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley,” CBS Radio, and CBS News Streaming on a regular basis. In an endeavor to provide insight and perspective on a wide range of health and medical topics, he has interviewed patients, healthcare practitioners, researchers, thought-leaders, and government officials, including President Obama twice.
For his coverage of the national drug shortage in 2012, for team coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, for Sunday Morning, Outstanding Program in 2019, and for Sunday Morning, Outstanding Program in 2020, LaPook has received four Emmy awards. The Alliance for Women in Media honored him with a Gracie Award in the News Feature Series category in 2018 for two breakthroughs in 60 Minutes investigations into the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal.
In 2018, LaPook was a finalist for the George Foster Peabody Award for his two 60 Minutes investigative reports on the gymnastics controversy. 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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