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

from leaders in the Knife. I'm Shre Agupde and with the rest of the BTK team here we have in discussion Dr Jonathan Hernandez.

Dr. Hernandez is a surgeon scientist and a principal investigator at NCI National

Institutes of Health. He graduated medical school with honors from University of

Florida, completed general surgery training at University of

South Florida. During his surgical residency he spent two years at Moffitt Cancer Center where

he studied liver metastases.

He completed fellowship training in both surgical oncology and H.P.

surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kattering Cancer Center.

During his fellowship, he further spent two years to

dedicated basic science research in an NIH-funded lab. Only three years as an

attending Dr. Hernandez has authored over 70 peer reviewed publications

and contributed to book chapters in numerous surgical textbooks.

Thank you so much for joining us on Behind the Knife today, Dr. Hernandez.

This is one introduction I can say that I'm in awe every time I read it.

You have accomplished so much in your career at such a young age.

And with that we would like to kick off our podcast.

Our very first question to you.

Tell us a little bit more about your journey thus far.

Well, let me say thank you for that kind introduction.

I appreciate that.

So I don't have, I didn't have any sort of higher calling to medicine. I kind of went to college and thought maybe I'll give science a try. It seems like it's not that hard. And so that worked out for me and then I found myself in medical school and I really had no clue what I wanted to do.

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