
Mark Talamini discusses overseas experiences, changing careers and disruptive technology
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 Ch...
27 Apr 202557min

Steve Schwaitzberg talks being a pilot, academic surgery and SAGES education
Steve Schwaitzberg is a foregut and endocrine surgeon who is also the Chair of Surgery at the University of Buffalo in upstate New York. However, he originally wanted to be a pilot, but his eyesight w...
13 Apr 20251h 5min

Mark Orloff talks transplanted surgery and famous family
Dr. Mark Orloff is a professor of surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center in upstate New York. He's been there for 34 years on Faculty and is coming up to retirement. He was born in Germ...
23 Mars 20251h 1min

John Alverdy - from Jazz music to the microbiome
Dr. John Alverdy is a professor of Surgery at the University Of Chicago who is probably best known in recent years for his extraordinary work on the microbiome and how it may relate to anastomotic lea...
2 Mars 202556min

Patrick Borgen MD talks Breast Cancer, Royalty, Brooklyn and Dirtbikes
Patrick Borgen is the Chair of the Dept of Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn New York. He also heads-up the breast program which he has developed into the only accredited breast center ...
9 Feb 20251h

Neil Smart - Surgeon and Unexpected Patient
Professor Neil Smart is a consultant colorectal surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in the UK. He's best known for his clinical interests in rectal cancer, hernia prevention and treatment a...
19 Jan 20251h 5min

Oscar Traynor Talks Transplant
Professor Oscar Traynor is currently the Director of International Surgical Training Programs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was born and grew up in Dublin and having originally wante...
29 Dec 202459min

Pat Sylla on being better
Dr. Pat Sylla is the current Division Chief of Colon and rental Surgery in Mount Sinai in New York. She was born in Paris, grew up in the Ivory Coast in West Africa, and went to college and medical sc...
15 Dec 202457min



















