Sanjay Gupta second most popular in US on Twitter

Washington: Indian-American neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta has emerged as the second most popular doctor in the US on Twitter, with over two million followers on the micro-blogging website, a new study has found.

The #DocsOnTwitter study by researchers at Augustana University in the US analysed tweeting habits of medical professionals in the country from 2006 to 2015.

Gupta, with 2,031,428 followers on Twitter, serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and as assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine.