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Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News, where his reporting is featured on all CBS News platforms and programs.
Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,500 in-depth reports on a wide range of health and medical stories, from breaking news to emerging trends. His reporting extends to coverage of music, lifestyle, and high-profile figures in entertainment. LaPook's work has been featured across all CBS News platforms, including "CBS News Sunday Morning," the "CBS Evening News," 60 Minutes, "CBS Mornings," "Face The Nation," and CBS News Radio.
LaPook reported extensively on COVID-19, delivering near-daily updates at the height of the pandemic. Over the years, he has covered a wide range of national and international health issues - including the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake and the ensuing cholera outbreak, the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, as well as the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. His reporting includes a wide range of health topics, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, cancer, cardiovascular conditions, substance use, obesity, mental health, gun violence, vaccine hesitancy, AIDS, traumatic brain injury, sickle cell anemia, and inequities in healthcare.
His interviews include leading voices in public life and medicine, including President Jimmy Carter about his global health work; President Barack Obama on healthcare reform; Aly Raisman on the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal; Director of NIAID Dr. Anthony Fauci; HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary; CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, and NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins on a range of public health issues. For more than a decade, he chronicled a couple's journey dealing with Alzheimer's disease. In addition, he has produced multiple segments profiling health challenges affecting public figures, including Ryan Reynolds, Angelina Jolie, Gilda Radner, Bob Saget, Alan Alda, and Marcia Cross. His profile work includes Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano, Richard Kind, John Mulaney, Delia Ephron, Noah Wyle, and his father-in-law, Norman Lear.
Dr. LaPook also serves as a Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and is an internist and gastroenterologist at NYU Langone Health. In 2013, LaPook founded The Empathy Project at NYU Langone Health to promote a culture of empathy in medicine. In May 2022, he delivered the commencement address for the classes of 2020 and 2021 at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, emphasizing the importance of empathy in healthcare. In September 2025, LaPook gave the keynote address and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare.
Dr. LaPook has won five Emmy Awards: in 2012 for coverage of the national drug shortage; in 2013 for team coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings; in 2019 and 2020 for "Sunday Morning" (Outstanding Program); and in 2021 for "CBS Mornings"/"CBS This Morning" (Outstanding Live News Program). In 2018, he was named a George Foster Peabody Award finalist and received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for two 60 Minutes investigations into the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal. In 2024, he earned two honors for investigative reporting on how private equity executives profited at patients' expense, including an award from the New York Press Club. LaPook also won two Edward R. Murrow Awards for Best Broadcast (2007 and 2013) and a 2015 New York Press Club Award for "Eye on Ebola," a WCBS-AM News Team special. In 2020, he received a Drama Desk Award for his work as a medical contributor to "Stars in the House," helping to keep the entertainment community informed during the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier, in 2010, he was recognized by the Webby Awards for his documentary series Doc Dot Com.
LaPook has worked extensively in medical computing, including developing a medical practice management software system that he sold in 1999 to a company later acquired by Emdeon Corporation, the parent company of WebMD.
He was born in Mineola, New York, graduated with honors from Yale University, and received his M.D. from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine, along with fellowships in Gastroenterology and Medical Informatics, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
The Second Round Foundation, founded by Sandra and Jalen Brunson, aims to help provide young people with what they need to thrive in the future.
In 1970, about 1 in 20 children were affected by obesity; today, it's 1 in 5. Dr. Jonathan LaPook looks at programs aimed at helping kids (and their families) get healthy the old-fashioned way, by eating right and exercising.
At a very special library in Copenhagen, Denmark, the "books" being checked out are actual human beings, who offer 30-minute conversations on a wealth of subjects – allowing "readers" a better understanding of humanity.
Scientists are hoping to use genetic engineering to reduce the transmission of Lyme disease. The scientists' target is not the deer or the ticks often associated with the disease; it's wild mice.
Every few months for the past three years, Jeff Vierstra has been receiving infusions in his spine that target and disable a mutated gene that made it likely he would develop ALS.
After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly eliminated in the United States. But vaccine avoidance today may allow the crippling disease to return.
The HBO Max drama immerses viewers in the struggles faced by the ER staff at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. "Sunday Morning" visits the hyper-realistic set, and talks with star, writer, director and executive producer Noah Wyle.
Washington University Medicine in St. Louis is conducting important research into treating early-onset Alzheimer's before symptoms arise.
From cinnamon to protein powders, reports about high levels of lead in our food are raising questions about how to reduce exposure.
Scientists hope genetically modified mice will curb the spread of Lyme disease. They headed to Nantucket — home to a large population of the mice, ticks and deer spreading Lyme — to pitch their idea.
You may not know his name, but there's a good chance you've seen Richard Kind – acting on TV, in films, on Broadway, or as the announcer-sidekick of "Everybody's Live with John Mulaney" – and he's fine making everyone else look good.
KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.
A new study shows promising results for treating certain cancers with immunotherapy and completely avoiding surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
The emerging technology offers an alternative to conventional UVC light, which is used to sanitize surfaces but can harm the skin and eyes.
A program begun in Zimbabwe in which grandmothers and older listeners serve as "first responders" for those seeking mental health assistance in underserved communities has now expanded to nine countries, including the U.S.