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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

#183 Surgeon Writers: Dr. Lillian Kao on Schwartz's Principles of Surgery and Advice for Authors/Reviewers

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Frequent friend of BTK, Dr. Lillian Kao (@LillianKao1) is the first female editor of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery and joins us to talk about her experience with editorial duties. She gives us great advice on authorship and how to get into editorial roles and reviewing papers.

This episode is part of our collaboration with AccessSurgery so look out for the quiz about this episode on Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 on @ABSITEQofWeek. Winners will receive a free copy of Principles of Surgery!

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0:00.0

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Good housekeeping taste approved winners too. Scallup Gratans only $3.99 and a large whole frozen British turkey from just $ pound 5 a kilo on sale now all from the which cheapest

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supermarket of the year Aldi share the love this Christmas

0:19.7

behind the knife the surgery podcast where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery

0:26.1

from leaders in the Knife. We were very excited to finally sit down with our

0:45.0

guest and frequent friend of the podcast, Dr. Lillian Cow, for a full-length interview. Dr Cow is a professor

0:50.4

of surgery and division chief of acute care surgery at the University of Texas

0:54.1

McGovern Medical School in Houston. She was president of the Association of Academic Surgery. She sits on

0:59.5

multiple editorial boards including the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

1:03.8

She has over 100 publications and more than 20 book chapters to her name.

1:08.4

She is the editor of pre-test surgery, which many of us use as medical students,

1:11.8

and continues to have national grant

1:13.4

funded research and the best part and last part of her CV is her appearance on our

1:17.4

podcast. Thank you for joining us Dr. Cal. Thank you for having me again.

1:21.6

For today we're going to kind of look at your involvement in the Schwartz principles of surgery.

1:27.0

The newest edition will be released this year and you are one of the editors, the first woman to edit a major surgical textbook.

1:33.0

Congratulations on this.

1:34.8

Thank you so much.

1:36.4

How did the opportunity arise for your involvement with Schwartz?

1:39.8

Dr. Brunicardi, who used to be the chair of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, who is now chair at

1:46.7

University of Toledo, asked me at one of the American College of Surgeons meeting if I would join the editorial board. and I know

1:55.0

know each other, and Dr. Brunicardi and I know each other because he is

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