Gabriel Weston

Gabriel Weston is an English surgeon who is also known as an author and television presenter. Born in London on 15 July 1970, she studied English at the University of Edinburgh and took an MA degree before deciding, at the age of 23, to retrain as a doctor, entering medical school in London in 1993. She qualified as a doctor in 2000 and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. Her 2009 memoir Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story, a set of fourteen short stories about training and working as a surgeon, was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and won the PEN/J Ackerley Award for Autobiography in 2010. She later published the novel Dirty Work in 2013 and a third book, Alive: An Alternative Anatomy, in 2025, and she was one of the four presenters of the early series of the BBC Two programme Trust Me, I'm a Doctor.