European Surgeons in the US
In this episode, our hosts Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü and Miia L Lehtinen, chat with leading female surgeons, Dr Ourania Preventza, Dr Daniela Molena and Dr Joanna Chikwe, about their career journeys, what took them to the United States, and the difference in working cultures and practices between the US and Europe.
Guest speakers:
Dr Ourania Preventza, a native of Greece, was formerly a Professor in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and physician associate the Texas Heart Institute. She is triple board certified and is current President of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists. She has held leadership positions within the STS and the Southern Thoracic Surgery Association. She received the 2023 Socrates Award from the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association and has authored >200 articles in peer review journals.
Dr Daniela Molena is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and Attending Surgeon and Director of the Esophageal Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). She was born, graduated medical school and general surgery residency in Padova, Italy. She moved to the United States for research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco and then trained in General Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering/Weill Cornell Medicine combined program. She is the President of the Women in Thoracic Surgery and serves in numerous national and international leadership roles related to esophageal and thoracic surgery.
Dr. Chikwe studied medicine at Oxford University after studying art for two years in Florence, Italy. She completed cardiac surgery residency in the UK, where she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS). She won the 2006 Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons Cardiac Scholarship, to undertake an advanced fellowship in mitral and aortic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she subsequently joined the faculty until 2019 when she was recruited to Cedars- Sinai, Los Angeles as the inaugural Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery.
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