# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abraham-verghese
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:26:10.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abraham-verghese"
name: "Abraham Verghese"
slug: "abraham-verghese"
description: "Abraham Verghese is an American physician and author. He is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, and Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at Stanford Medical School. He is also the author of four best-selling books: two memoirs and two novels. He is the co-host with Eric Topol of the Medscape podcast Medicine and the Machine."
tagline: "American physician, teacher, novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Abraham_Verghese_in_2023_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "cuttingforstone"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/verghese.fanpage"
    handle:    "verghese.fanpage"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump