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

from leaders in the Knife. Our guest today is Dr Paula Ferrata. Dr.

Farada's professor of surgery and director of the surgical critical care fellowship at Virginia

Commonwealth University School of Medicine.

She is also the Medical Director of the surgical and Trauma ICU for the VCU health system.

Dr. Farada completed her medical school in Columbia graduating Magna cum laude from Universidad Del Valle Medicine.

She then completed an internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, followed by general surgery training

at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

She then completed a Trauma Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh as well

as an acute care surgery fellowship at Shock Trauma.

Welcome Dr. Farada.

Thank you so much for having me.

So we always like to start with getting you to tell us a little more about your background and how you got into medicine.

Oh, well, I am originally from Colombia. My father is a surgeon, is a trauma surgeon, but in Colombia, trauma surgery means surgery of the body.

So, and my mom is an OB Guy nurse and sometimes we used to have issues with child care.

So I spend a lot of time in the hospital and me and my sister. There's not as many restrictions as there is,

they are in the United States.

So the first time that I scrubbing in a patient,

it was a rupture triple A, and I was scrubbing in a patient, it was a rupture AAA and I was 12 years old.

So I think after you, you know, blood is very

different reactions in people. My reaction was like, oh my God, this is amazing and how do I get

more involved with this? And I think that surgery chose me and then you know

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