Dimon, Bezos, Buffett tap Harvard's Gawande for health firm

Gawande is a professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Harvard Medical School

Atul Gawande, the surgeon and journalist who has written extensively about America’s failure to grapple with an inefficient health care system, will head a new venture for Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The new venture—meant to help the companies get their health care costs down—will be based in Boston. Gawande will start on July 9. It will be independent of the three firms, whose leaders formed the group as a way of grappling with what Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett called a “tapeworm” eating the American economy.  “I have devoted my public health career to building scalable solutions