Lousie Thwaites is a clinician-researcher at OUCRU in Vietnam (@OUCRU_Vietnam), looking at innovations in intensive care in low and middle-income countries. In this interview, she talks about the challenges and opportunities there are for doctors from working with engineers, the importance of mentors in a research career and why unconventional career paths can be really fulfilling.

Read our Healthcare Innovation in Vietnam special collection: https://www.bmj.com/company/vietnam-collection-2021/ and Prof Thwaites article on wearables: https://innovations.bmj.com/content/7/Suppl_1/s12.

You can follow Louise on Twitter @CLThwaites, BMJ Innovations @bmjinnovations and podcast host Helen Surana @hjsurana.

BMJ innovations is grateful to the World Innovation Summit for Health WISH for making this podcast series possible.

https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/louise-thwaites

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