This is episode 127 of the Swallier Pride Podcast and today's guest is Dr. Meg

is originally from Southern Illinois, grew up in a small town named Chester,

Illinois. She went to Southern Illinois University, Carbondale for her

Bachelor's and Masters in Communication Disorders and Sciences. Her mother was a

nurse and her dad was a nurse, anesthetist. Her mom went on to become a

family medicine physician when she was in high school,

and then she became interested in the medical field. After college, she took a traveling job in

Auckland, New Zealand as an SLP and a subacute rehab center. She spent under a year there and then came back to Illinois

but wanted to continue her education, so she answered a PhD program at the University of

South Alabama. She was there for a few years until the department underwent some

upheaval, then she went back to Illinois and worked as an

SLP with a solo practice for a while that met her husband. She still had thoughts of medicine

and he had encouraged her to explore that. She ended up taking a few mandatory science classes

she needed and the MCAT and interviewed,

and voila.

She chose anesthesiology and trained her first year

in surgery in Birmingham, Alabama,

and then three years in

anesthesiology at Omaha, Nebraska. She loves critical care, so stayed an

extra year to do a fellowship in critical care. Now she is an assistant professor

and attending anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

She is so married to her husband Joe and they have two boys Victor 8 and Henric 4. I hope you guys love this

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