Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

from leaders in the Knife. I'm Shria Gupta and in conversation today we have Dr. Jeremy Davis.

Dr. Jeremy Davis is a surgical oncologist and a principal investigator in the Center for Cancer Research at NCI,

NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Davis originally hails from Florida.

He completed his general surgery training at Indiana University, an additional three years of

research training at the National Cancer Institute, followed by his advanced training of surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Cattering Cancer Center.

He currently serves as the program director for the NIH NCI Fellowship as well as

Surgeon-in-Chief of the NIH at Bethesda, Maryland.

His clinical research focus is on gastric cancer,

with particular attention to molecular underpinnings

of carcinogenesis and peritoneal metastases.

He's the principal investigator of multiple clinical trials being conducted here at

NIH including studies of patients with inherited forms of gastric cancer.

We're so very happy to have you on board, Dr. Davis.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

Thanks for having me.

So if you could, we just often like to start with kind of getting to know our guest and where they came from.

So where are you from?

How did you get into doing what you're doing and how did you choose surgery and

surgical oncology? Well I was born in Florida in Tampa actually and and from an early age I kind of was always attracted to medicine

and surgery but it wasn't until I was in college in Tampa that I started to pursue this and do what a lot of people do and

Observe or shadow other folks. I was lucky enough to have a cousin up in Michigan who was a physician and had me up there to observe or shadow one of his

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