Surgeons’ Lives - Stuff that Matters

Steve Stain - from Pus to President

In this latest episode of Surgeons Lives, Steve Stain recalls his journey from infancy in San Antonio, Texas, to growing up near Fresno in California and entering College and Medical School.
 
He certainly started with the basics, draining pus for his boss in a drug abuse practice. He describes being supported by some outstanding mentors in his early residency and guided into a career in Academic Surgery that proved extremely successful.
Faculty jobs in California and Tennessee led him to be recruited as Chair of Surgery in Albany, New York, and for more than a decade it was a marriage made in heaven. However, times change, and when leadership vision shifted it was time to move on to his next adventure.
The last few years has seen him, become Chair of Surgery at the Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts, where he describes himself as in many respect, a middle ranking manager! However, we all know that that's understating his contributions to Surgery, and to supporting his colleagues.
His story of being supported by multiple mentors in the early stages of his career is important because it's informed the way he supports young surgeons in his career as a surgical leader.
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#surgeonslives #stuffthatmatters #mentorship #laheyclinic @americancollegeofsurgeons #americansurgicalassociation #children #familylife #drainingpus
https://www.lahey.org/news-stories/all-news-stories/news/2021/02/steven-stain-md-named-lhmc-chair-of-surgery
https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/acs-brief/may-9-2023-issue/dr-steven-stain-acs-regent-is-the-new-asa-president/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-stain-7b03b88/
https://www.castleconnolly.com/top-doctors/steven-c-stain-surgery-
 

David Linehan - From Boston Irish to Dean and CEO

David Linehan MD is the current Dean and CEO of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and the Medical Center.
He grew up in Boston having lost his father as a toddler. Despite living in the tough streets of Dorchester - Whitey Bulger and all that stuff - he learned that education and hard work would lead him to a better life.
Academic achievement took him through College and the Medical School necessary to become a surgeon. A Surgical Oncology Fellowship at MSKCC in New York was the final step to establishing a successful early career as a surgeon scientist at Wash U in St. Louis where he became known as a pioneer in novel therapies for pancreatic cancer.
Rochester called and a decade as the Chairman of Surgery prepared him well for the latest step upwards to the world of Institution leadership and all that involves.
In this interview, he takes us through his early life in Boston attending school with the Bulger kids - the same school that became the epicenter of the Catholic Church scandal powerfully portrayed in the movie "Spotlight".
He talks about hitting the mentorship jackpot and what changing career directions is likely to involve.
Fascinating stuff to hear - or indeed watch on the @Youtube channel @surgeonslives 
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https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/david-linehan-named-ceo-of-university-of-rochester-medical-center-576112/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-linehan-urmc/

Gill Tierney - Surgeon, educator and chatty woman has much to say.

Latest episode of #Surgeonslives #Stuffthatmatters has landed with an interview with another surgeon from the UK
 
Gill Tierney is a force of nature. A general and colorectal surgeon who works in the midlands of the UK she rose to become the second woman elected President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.
By her own admission she has never been afraid to speak out and is generally a chatty person - but one who specializes in connecting people who might do great things together.
She has clear views about the gender challenges in modern surgery - but they might be different to the obvious perhaps? Married to another colorectal surgeon, she certainly understands the work-life balance dilemma and wants to see that expand far beyond gender choices.
Female mentors, worrying about old white males, pieces of life advice and how to change the NHS are all discussed here in a fun ride through a career.
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https://www.asgbi.org.uk/about-us/surgical-leaders-in-management-slim/gillian-tierney

Nat Soper - Surgeon, Innovator and Dinosaur

Nat Soper is one of the best known laparoscopic surgeons worldwide. He was there at the very beginning and was definitely one of the true innovators in laparoscopic, minimally invasive, natural orifice surgery.
He is currently the Chair of Surgery at Banner health in Phoenix, but that was never his intention!
He describes in this interview, a stellar career culminating in being Division Chief at Northwestern in Chicago, where he was for more than a decade before it was suddenly decided that he was surplus to requirements without warning.
Not very many surgeons are willing to speak openly about such dramatic life change, so don't miss this opportunity to hear his views on the stresses and traumas of having to make a life change that was definitely not planned.
If you prefer to watch, then this interview is available on @Youtube @Surgeonslives.
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https://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/surgery/soper
https://uacomp.resoapps.com/RA122001-Nathaniel_J._Soper/biography/index.hml
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-soper-2a0bb61b7/
 
#sages #employment #gettingfired #selfdoubt #medicalpolitics #surgery #lifestyle #lifestress #worklifebalance #mentorship #laparoscopicsurgeon #robotics
 

Tom Watson talks about past days training models, malignant culture and stoicism

Tom Watson is a thoracic surgeon of excellence and works at Corewell Health in Michigan.
A Midwestern boy by background he became part of the USC esophageal gang under the mentorship of Tom DeMeester.
He then spent 20 years at the University of Rochester where he rose through the ranks to become Professor of Surgery and then in 2016 moved to become a system chair at MedStar in Washington DC.
That wasn't an entirely happy experience and he talks about unhealthy organizational cultures being the trap that awaits the unwary.
He is now happily based near Detroit and once again a highly successful clinical academic surgeon. He talks about his newfound faith in the concept of stoicism, as well as his musical background in college where he played in abandon to make beer and food money.
Anyone planning to rise up through the ranks of Surgical leadership should listen to this interview and understand some of the real world challenges.
If you prefer to watch, then don't forget this is available on @Youtube @surgeonslives
 https://www.ctsnet.org/home/thwatson
https://doctors.beaumont.org/provider/thomas-j-watson/1922627
 

Phil Schauer - Bariatric Surgery, bigotry, future adventures and making a difference

Phil Schauer is one of the nations best known bariatric surgeons.
He spent many years and rose to fame in the world of metabolic surgery when in the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio before recently moving to Louisiana and the Pennington Research Institute where he continues to make a difference to patients with morbid obesity and metabolic syndrome.
In this discussion, he describes how Bariatric Surgery was the redheaded stepchild of Surgery for many years and suffered from bias and bigotry, as well as the refusal to accept that this was an actual disease process. Despite this, the number of bariatric procedures being performed continues to grow day by day with better and better outcomes.
In this wide ranging interview, Phil tells us about his early life in Texas stumbling into the world of MIS and learning from others around the world how to make an impact and improve the lives of many patients.
He's a true surgeon scientist with almost 400 peer reviewed publications and can't decide whether he prefers wine or beer. He's a big Beatles fan and would like to have dinner with Muhammad Ali.
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https://www.fmolhs.org/sgbr/about/philip-r-schauer
Twitter https://x.com/pschauermd?lang=en
https://asmbs.org/about/asmbs-presidents/philip-r-schauer/
https://www.pbrc.edu/research-and-faculty/faculty/Schauer-Philip-MD.aspx
 
#morbidobesity #bigotry #fakediets #bariatricsurgery #gastricbypass #gastricsleeve #lapband #surgery #lifestyle #worklifebalance #societyelections #leadership #MIS #laparoscopy

Tom Varghese - Surgeon, Double Immigrant and serious thinker

Tom Varghese, MD,  is the chief of the section of Thoracic Surgery at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah. He's also many other things, including the president of the Society of University Surgeons and one of the founders of the Strong for Surgery program in the American College of Surgeons.
He's been NIH funded for quite some time now and is heavily focused in the areas of quality and integrated care. However, he is very much more than that.
He was born in India and immigration to America following his father who won the green card lottery. He then went back to India for medical school and back to America again to start and completes surgical training. So he knows all about being considered different remembering that he was different in America and now was different in India.
He has a lot to say about the changing environment of healthcare, including the development of integrated care and challenges facing academic medical centers, as well as the roles of mentors throughout his career.
In this conversation, we also ask what he thinks might lie in front of those of us in the healthcare industry - the next big thing?
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https://medicine.utah.edu/surgery/cardiothoracic/news/2022/08/dr-varghese-has-accepted-role-of-associate-chief-medical
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomvarghesejr/recent-activity/all/
Twitter or X https://x.com/tomvarghesejr
 

Scott Silvestry - heart transplants, Ferraris, Bronx origins, learning life. It's all here!

Scott Silvestry MD is the current Division chief of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
But he is so much more than that.
He was drawn to Medicine and Surgery by family tragedy, leaving the close community of the Bronx to become a doctor. He spent his formative residence years in Duke, or he had the opportunity to learn much – not all good – from the legendary Dr. David Sabiston.
After residency, a period of research followed before he became a star in the field of heart failure, and heart transplantation while on faculty at the University of Washington in St. Louis. Following a few years in Florida, he recently moved to his current position in Arizona where he is now revamping the Transplant program.
In this fascinating interview, he talks about family influences, behavioral changes over the years, constantly pushing the boundaries of technology and challenges for the benefit of his patience and always questioning dogma.
His passion for cars was learned watching his dad with various wonderful machines such as a 427 Cobra, an early Ferrari as well as a very rare Lamborghini. He is certainly followed in that tradition over many years steadily creating a wonderful collection of elegant Ferraris, including some really special cars that he talks about during this discussion.
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https://surgery.arizona.edu/news/department-surgery-welcomes-new-division-chief-cardiothoracic-surgery-dr-scott-silvestry
https://www.doximity.com/profiles/0c0f74e1-27b0-41a7-8d22-41c9a10a07fd/view
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-silvestry-aaa26626/
https://x.com/ssilvestrymd?lang=en @ssilvestryMD
#lifestyle #passion #surgery #hearttransplant #Ferrari #Lamborghini #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #Learningbehavior #challenges #worklifebalance #ECMO #Cobra #Surgeonslives #Stuffthatmatters
 

Mary Hawn talks surgery, Stanford, long distance relationships and couples matching.

Mary Hawn is the Chair of Surgery at Stanford and a highly successful academic general surgeon. For her, life started on the shores of Lake Michigan but after medical school she spent time in Oregon doing a fellowship before joining the UAB faculty in Birmingham. She spent 14 years there rising to become Division of General Surgery.
Along the way she married Eben Rosenthal, a high flying academic Head and Neck surgeon and they raised two children. The next move for them both was moving to Stanford where she became Chair and Eben was working as a cancer surgeon and researcher.
Not quite 3 years ago Eben took a leadership role at Vanderbilt so clearly, Mary's views on managing that lifestyle are very interesting to hear. Indeed, she has much to say about several aspects of modern surgery and society in general
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https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/mary-hawn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hawn
https://x.com/maryhawn?lang=en

Nick Stafford OBE - surgeon, charity, classic cars and buying a pub!

Nick Stafford OBE retired a few years ago as Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Hull in the UK.
However, there is way more to Nick that his surgical achievements. As Co-founder of the Daisy Appeal Charity his leadership raised many, many millions and the creation of a unique PET scanning center in Hull - achievements acknowledged by the award of the OBE.
He is a serial classic car enthusiast owning more than 50 cars over the years. Now he has an original Mini Cooper and a Porsche 356 for fun but is always thinking of the next purchase.
A few years ago he bought a pub and restaurant near his home - despite knowing next to nothing about the business. As he tells us, it wasn't a success in financial terms but wasn't all bad and he and his daughters had some fun.
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https://justbeverley.co.uk/articles/prof-nick-stafford-obe-director-of-the-daisy-appeal
https://daisyappeal.org/pages/patrons-trustees-and-benefactors
https://www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/daisy-appeal-wykeland-donation
#lifestyle #daisyappeal #surgery #worklifebalance #restaurants #classicscars #universityofhull