In his latest “Health Care Heart to Heart” podcast, now streaming, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, speaks Joseph Khoury, MD. Dr. Khoury is the chair of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.

In the discussion, Dr. Khoury speaks about his journey into medicine.

“I still remember going into college not knowing what I wanted to do in life, and I knew I was attracted to the biological sciences, so I picked biology as a major, but it took two years of taking pre-med courses, but really not being sure I wanted to do medicine as a career, before I had this kind of ‘moment,’” he tells Dr. Gold. “What a great career that would be, where one can really help others in something as fundamental as their health. And somehow that thought never left my mind.”

He also discusses his new work with the World Health Organization.