Dr. Thao Galvan is a pediatric and adult transplant surgeon, in the division of abdominal transplantation. She is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine, and operates at Baylor-affiliated hospitals and Texas Children’s Hospital. She is also an award-winning educator, health policy scholar, and researcher.
In this episode, she shares what a week in the life of a transplant surgeon looks like, from spending many hours in the operating room, to traveling across the country, to working on the logistics of arranging transplants. She is frank about how hard it is, but also shares some of her strategies and insights on how to be successful in such a challenging field while continuing to grow in her career and care for her young family.
One of these strategies that Dr. Galvan discusses is how she has embraced a growth mindset, and how she continues to learn and grow with her surgical skills as well as her teaching skills. She discusses how important it is to maintain a cohesive unit with her team in and out of the OR, and how one of her goals is to "keep the train moving" and still keep it playful.
https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/nhu-thao-galvan-21685
https://www.texaschildrens.org/find-a-doctor/nhu-thao-nguyen-galvan-md-mph
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