Ellen Gabler

Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and a member of a team awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

[11] She received the 2019 feature article Gerald Loeb Award for the co-authored "'If Bobbie Talks, I'm finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser.

[15] On May 30, 2019 the New York Times published a lengthy investigative, "gut wrenching"[16] report by Gabler on the pediatric cardiac surgery program at the University of North Carolina Hospitals.

She reported that some doctors suspected that patients with complex conditions were dying at a higher-than-expected rate, and discussed the ensuing controversy.

Secret audio tapes were obtained; the doctors comments "offer a rare, unfiltered look inside a medical institution as physicians weighed ethical obligations to their patients while their bosses also worried about harming the surgical program," wrote Gabler.

[18] On June 17, 2019, North Carolina Children's Hospital announced the suspension of surgery for the most complex cases, some of which had a mortality approaching 50%.