This is a very special episode of #Surgeonslives #Stuffthatmatters

Matt Albert is one of the best known colorectal surgeons worldwide. A florida boy through and through he truly hit the big time with TAMIS which he co-invented but popularized around the world.

Always moving at maximum speed in everything he does he is a truly accomplished technical surgeon, a gifted teacher and a powerhouse of an intellect. I think he probably qualifies as a polymath being a single-fiber handicap golfer, deep sea fisherman, innovator and inventor was well as being an exceptional surgeon.

However, all of that comes with a cost for any person and Matt is no different in that regard. He has learnt the lessons of stress management over many years and sometimes the hard way.

In this interview, we cover some of those aspects of his life journey, the need for having fun to decompress and the benefits of engaging in therapy - "everyone needs a therapist" as he says.

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#tamis #appliedmedical #surgery #stressrelief #stressmanagement #lifestyle #worklifebalance #colorectalsurgery #laparoscopictechniques

In the latest episode of #Surgeonslives #stuffthatmatters we meet Dr Mark Evers.

He is a surgical oncologist and cancer researcher who is the head of the Markey cancer center at the University of Kentucky? In the years he has been at the helm of the cancer center, he has led it to NCI Cancer Center designation in 2013 and ultimately Comprehensive Cancer Center designation 10 years later.

Mark grew up in the smallest of small towns in southern Tennessee and was the first of his family to go to college. An early mentor was Dr. Hiram Polk in Louisville before he spent 20 years at the university of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was mentored successively by Dr. Jim Thompson, and then Dr. Courtney Townsend.

Anyone would have expected him to become a Chair of Surgery in a high-ranking Academic Medical Center but he decided to follow another path when recruited to become the director of the cancer center in 2009.

The conversation today was fascinating as he describes growing up from the humblest of backgrounds to becoming one of the true leaders in cancer medicine in the United States.

Throughout all of this time, he has been a passionate and dedicated Rolling Stones fan, having gone to more than 50 concerts over the years in multiple different countries around the world.

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#surgery #nci #cancercenter #mentorship #rollingstones #universityofkentucky #smallbeginnings

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Ashok Pathak from Hull in the UK, recently retired after a wonderful career as an Orthopedic Surgeon and leader in the creation of a career pathway for the Associate Specialty grade trainees.

Born and educated in India where his father was a chest physician and a man who taught the values of giving back to those in need. The family established a hospital to treat Tuberculosis - almost endemic in the early 1950's - and it grew to 150 beds at one point in time. All the treatment was totally free and Ashok still runs the charity today.

As a young Indian man, cricket was very important to Ashok to because a wicketkeeper and batsman playing first class cricket for his University and State. A passion for him as a young man, this is still his first love today and he has travelled to world watching many test matches live.

However, medicine (and surgery) was an even bigger draw so he moved to the UK and has basically spent almost all of his career in East Yorkshire - where we first met in 1993. During this interview, he describes the career challenges, casual (and not so casual) career racism he faced in the early days and the work he ultimately did as an advocate for parallel trained doctors within the NHS. He was awarded the MBE for his services to medicine in England and India.

Here is a man who understands the important things and values in life. Family, kindness, caring for those in need - truly #stuffthatmatters

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#cricket #surgery #givingback #racisminsurgery #nhs #yorkshirecountrycricket #othopedicsurgery #familybusiness #charitymatters

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashok-pathak-243bb861/?originalSubdomain=uk

http://cricketbeyondboundaries.com/india-hull-medicine-cricket-and-charity-an-anglo-indian-affair/

https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/print/indianorigin-surgeon-honoured-with-mbe-in-uk/?ref=archive_pg

Matt Weiss is the deputy physician in Chief and Director of Surgical Oncology at Northwell Health Cancer Institute. He is an internationally recognized surgical oncologist with a special interest in pancreatic cancer and particularly interested in outcomes and matters of quality.

His early career followed a very traditional academic pathway culminating in a long period on Faculty at Hopkins where his senior mentor was Dr. John Cameron. As everyone knows, there is an expectation that Hopkins surgeons will become a Chair of a university department so it was a surprise for many when Matt changed direction and joined Northwell Health a few years ago.

As he describes in this fascinating interview, he was unable to resist the opportunity of improving cancer outcomes from within a large system like Northwell Health that cares for so many lives. Of course, he's still harbors ambitions on the academic front and believes that one day he will become a Chair when the time is right.

But for now he is passionately engaged in the vision of a system approach.

Of course, there is more to this man than his surgical career. A worryingly, good golfer, he is a lapsed fisherman and overcame his midlife crisis by buying a Porsche. He is also a fan of the Rolling Stones.

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https://www.northwell.edu/find-care/find-a-doctor/dr-matthew-john-weiss-md-1568416618

https://x.com/surgeonweiss

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-weiss-b1155a6/

#northwellhealth #pancreaticcancer #Hopkinssurgery #academicsurgery #research #surgeryrecovery #cancer #rollingstones #fishing #familytime

Samir Pathak is an HPB surgeon from Leeds in the UK. The family business has been medicine for several generations, but he has also been brought up immersed in the Indian culture of cricket - and in his family's case charity.

n this truly fascinating interview, he discusses his early surgical career and training. This was impacted by having undergo multiple operations before the age of 10. He also describes another family passion which is cricket -where he almost made the first class level.

A truly challenging experience for him was being asked to Chair a committee, investigating the accusations of institutional racism in Yorkshire County Cricket Club. To call that task, a poisoned chalice would be an understatement, but he speaks quite openly about the experience, both good and bad, including the inevitable frustrations of political interference and how it has guided his future approach in his work life as well as outside.

His grandfather and father have been involved in a tuberculosis treatment charity in India which is still helping people today. For his part, Samir has established a charity that brings the most under privileged children possible to the UK within a cricket environment in a way that truly changes the direction of their lives.

This is not the typical interview from Surgeons Lives, but I think you will find it fascinating and I hope you will agree that Samir has established a very high bar to be admired.

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https://yorkshireccc.com/news/club-statement-2/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samir-pathak-08525236/

https://x.com/drsampathak?lang=en

#surgeryrecovery #racism #cricket #pancreaticcancer #neilsmart #research #surgery #surgeonslives #stuffthatmatters #charity #givingback #familybusiness

Dr. Sherry Wren is a Professor of of Surgery at Stanford in California but in this interview with Surgeons Lives it's evident that she is a lot more than that.

An early career was spent chasing the academic pinnacle of being a Department Chair, but after a number of years of always being the bridesmaid and never the bride, she experienced an epiphany that made her realize that this was no longer the most important thing to her in life.

Today, she remains a busy and active clinical surgeon over the last decade or more, her real passion has developed in the arena of global and humanitarian surgery. She started by making brief visits to conflict zones around the world providing direct clinical care, but soon realized that teaching people how to deliver care was far more beneficial as a long-term investment.

She continues with this passion today. During the conversation today, we hear about her early experiences growing up in Chicago, pursuing a profession with very few women in sight and her personal enthusiasm for sci-fi literature, good food, and regularly spending time on dive boats in exotic locations such as Indonesia.

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#globalsurgery #scifi #americancollegeofsurgeons #humanitariansurgery #surgery #leadership #academicsurgery #womeninsurgery #lifestyle #careerambition #departmentchair

https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/bulletin/2022/nov-dec-clinical-congress-2022-highlights/sherry-m-wren-md-facs-fcs-ecsa-elected-as-acs-secretary/

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/doctors/w/sherry-wren.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherry-m-wren/

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This is the first of two episodes during which I have the chance to interview Professor Ara Darzi - or Lord Darzi as he became when he entered the House of Lords in 2007.

Ara Darzi was born in Baghdad to Armenian parents and after high school education entered medical school in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin. After graduation and surgical training in Ireland, including a research fellowship, he moved to London shortly thereafter where he began his career initially as an NHS consultant once he had completed his training.

In the early 1990s I had the privilege of working with Ara as I was also newly on staff at Imperial College in Saint Marys Hospital medical school in London. There, Ara first demonstrated his extraordinary talents for surgical skill and innovation in many areas of technology.

Within a decade, he had risen through the ranks to become the Chair of Surgery at Imperial College and the future was definitely looking bright. In 2006, he was asked by a health minister to undertake a review of the NHS within LONDON.

Around this time he had received a Knighthood and then unexpectedly was invited by the Prime Minister at the time, Gordon Brown, to join his government of all talents.

Two years as a health minister was an extraordinary experience, but enough for someone who did not wish to spend his life in mainstream politics. Instead, he has sat in the house of Lord's as an independent life peer and become a global figure in the world of health innovation and disruptive technology.

I cannot think of many surgeons whose career has spanned such an extraordinary breath of achievements. As much as anything else, this is why I decided that this interview should be in two parts.

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#innovation #collaboration #surgery #research #robotics #medicalpolitics #houseoflords #laparoscopysurgery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_Darzi,_Baron_Darzi_of_Denham

https://www.flagshippioneering.com/people/ara-darzi

https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/consultant-directory/ara-darzi

https://royalsociety.org/people/ara-darzi-11300/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/11/prof-lord-ara-darzi-surgeon-nhs-review

Dr. Gerry Fried is the former Chair of the Department of Surgery at McGill University in Montreal and is now leading the Department's initiatives in the technology and innovation space as well as surgical simulation.

In this very wide ranging interview, he touches on a whole gamut of topics ranging from the benefits of travel in terms of surgical education, having crucial conversations with badly behaved or failing colleagues, the development of innovation under pressure and the inevitable intrusion of technology into the daily life of surgeons and their patients. He recognizes that while technology can be incredibly beneficial, there are also downsides to some recent developments.

This is a man who has been there and done most of it and there's very little he hasn't seen throughout a long and distinguish career. At 75 years of age, he is thoroughly enjoying his work and finds great excitement in new initiatives.

He continues to travel the world widely seeking out extraordinary culinary experiences.

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https://www.mcgill.ca/generalsurgery/gerald-m-fried

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dr-gerald-fried

#surgicalinnovation #retirementplanning #academicsurgery #artificialintelligence #podcast #leadershipskills #badbehevior

Dr. Mark Talamini leads the physician employment group in the Northwell Health system.

He spent many years in Academic Surgery rising through the ranks in Johns Hopkins before serving as Department Chair in the University of California, San Diego and then Stony Brook University before joining Northwell in 2021.

In his early career, he spent some clinical time overseas in Bangladesh and then Ireland. He was there at the very beginning of minimally invasive surgery performing the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Hopkins.

In recent years, he has transitioned into a fundamentally administrative and executive leadership role and has much to say on how to improve the daily well-being of employed surgeons and other physicians. He is optimistic about reducing the drudgery that faces so many physicians on a daily basis.

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#academicsurgery #leadership #artificialintelligence #physicianwellness #burnout #surgery #minimallyinvasivesurgery #laparoscopysurgery

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-talamini-17150027/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Talamini

https://talks-with-talamini.podbean.com

https://x.com/talaminidoc?lang=en