Rahul Jandial

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 20 languages.

Jandial's published research 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 and has been invited as distinguished professor at Oxford and Harvard.

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

Jandial attended Compton Community College and earned his B.A from University of California, Berkeley — M.D. from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles — Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) — and cancer surgery specialization from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

Since 2009, Jandial is a long-term contributor at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.

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.

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.

Expected release of This is Why You Dream: What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life is April 2024 in 20 languages.

He has been featured in The Times of London, the Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Mr. Porter and GQ, and is an expert for Guardian Masterclasses.

He is the founder and co-director of International Neurosurgical Children's Association, 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.

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.

Brian Lowry, chief TV critic for Variety, called him the "world's most dashing neurosurgeon" in a highly positive review.

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

He is represented by the talent agency - WME.

Harry Walker speaker’s agency signed him in 2024.