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

from leaders in the Knife.

Very pleased today to have our guest Dr Betsy Tuttle Newhall

who is a professor of surgical immunology and transplantation.

She's also the chair of the Department of

Surgery at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine. Dr Tutto-Newhall

thanks for joining us so much on BTK. Well thank you so much for having me.

So we'd like to start off all of our episodes with you telling us a little bit about where you're from,

where you're train, and how to come to the point that you are now at East Carolina.

All right. Well, I'm from originally from a little teeny town in North Carolina called

Madison, North Carolina. It has about 2,500 people and it's 30 minutes from the Virginia State

border. I went to Wake Forest University, went to medical school there when it was the Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

So I'm aging myself a little bit.

And then I did a preliminary internship there and completed my residency at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston

before it merged with the Beth Israel and I came back to North Carolina,

did a critical care fellowship and a Transmont Fellowship

at Duke and I was on faculty

when my name was on the call schedule in June, so I came at Duke for about 13 and a half years

and moved to St. Louis University to take over their transplant division.

And while I was out there I had the opportunity and the privilege

to be the interim chair of anesthesia and I actually enjoyed it immensely.

And since the anesthesiologist didn't do anything bad to themselves,

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