Association for Academic Surgery: Removing the Mask with Dr. Carrie Cunningham

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Cunningham is the section head of the Massachusetts General Hospital Endocrine Surgery unit, a NIH-funded researcher, and the immediate past-president of the Association for Academic Surgery. This episode is a recording of her presidential address at their annual Academic Surgical Congress.

Guest
Dr. Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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Association for Academic Surgery: https://www.aasurg.org/
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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.
0:13.0	Hi guys, this is Nina Clark and one of the Behind the Night Education Fellows.
0:26.0	This week, we're proud to be partnering with the Association for Academic Surgery and Dr. Carey Cunningham.
0:31.0	Dr. Cunningham is an associate professor of surgery, an NIH-funded researcher,
0:37.0	and a practicing endocrine surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, and she's the current president of AAS.
0:43.0	This year, she gave a presidential address at their annual meeting that stuck with several of us at BTK.
0:49.0	It's a raw, emotional and incredibly brave speech that touches on topics that are really hard to talk about in our line of work.
0:55.0	Including depression, substance abuse, and suicide.
0:59.0	We are so grateful to Dr. Cunningham for her leadership in sharing her story, and we hope hearing her speech will be as impactful for you all as it has been for us.
1:07.0	Without further ado, here's Dr. Cunningham at the Academic Surgery Congress.
1:11.0	Good morning.
1:13.0	Just got to get the first word out.
1:16.0	Yes.
1:19.0	I was the top junior tennis player in the United States.
1:23.0	One that junior is open, and was ranked top 50 in the world professionally at the age of 16.
1:31.0	I competed at Wemmelden five times.
1:37.0	I'm an associate professor of surgery at Harvard.
1:41.0	I am an R01.
1:44.0	I'm the proud president of the AAS.
1:47.0	I'm also human.
1:53.0	I'm a person with lifelong depression, anxiety, and now a substance use disorder.
2:02.0	None of my professional successes had protected me against this.
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