Gupta is an Emory Healthcare general neurosurgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital and has worked on spine , trauma and 3‑D ‑ During his reporting in Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake , Gupta received a call from the aircraft carrier USS '' Carl Vinson '' that an earthquake victim , a 12-year-old girl , was aboard and needed a neurosurgeon . Gupta , a pediatric surgeon , Henri Ford , and two U.S. Navy doctors removed a piece of concrete from the girl 's skull in an operation performed aboard the '' Vinson '' . Ford later wrote that Gupta " proved to be a competent neurosurgeon "
January 2010 earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
Sanjay Gupta