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

from leaders in the Knife. We are absolutely thrilled to have

Dr. Barbara Bass with us today. She's the chair of surgery at Houston Methodist

Hospital and Professor of Surgery at Wheel Cornell.

In addition to her clinical practice in gastrointestinal and endocrine

surgery, Dr Bass has led a funded laboratory program

in gastrointestinal epithelial Injury and Repair.

She completed her undergraduate degree at Tufts and her MD at the University of Virginia.

She then completed her general surgery residency at George Washington University with a research

fellowship at Walter Reed.

We are speaking with Dr Bass in the end of her tenure as the current president of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Bass, thank you for joining us today.

My pleasure.

So just to get started, we always like to hear a little bit about you,

where you grew up, where you came from hear a little bit about you, where you grew up, where you came from,

a little bit about where you trained

and how you came into pursue surgery.

Well, that can go on forever, but I'll try not to do that, of course.

I will say the first time a child of the 60s, and I'm also a child of a military family.

So I didn't really have fixed routes. My dad was a career

naval officer in the nuclear submarine program so we spent a lot of time moving

around as a young person as a family and also lived at a world where the

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