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

surgery from leaders in the field. Welcome to a hind the knife everybody. We're very pleased to have Dr. Doug

here. Doug is the program director of the General Surgery Residency

at Brigham Williams Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He's also the

Associate Chair of Education in the Department of Surgery and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Gastron Testional and General Surgery.

Specializes in minimally invasive surgery. He's very involved with the Stratus Center for Medical Simulation

being the Associate Medical Director there and Doug welcome to BTK. Thanks

thanks for having me. Yeah we're really excited to have you here. So again, we for all our listeners, and they know, we'd like to start out. Tell me a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? You know, where did you train? Where did you grow up? How did they come to the point where you are at Harvard?

Sure. So actually I grew up just outside of Philadelphia.

So I'm an Eagles fan, which is not so great around New England

these days having just won the Super Bowl, but it's our first one ever.

We're pretty excited as Philadelphia fans.

But I grew up outside of Philadelphia.

Actually, my father's a general surgeon.

He's retired now.

I went to college up in Massachusetts, I went to Amherst College,

and then I was actually big in ice hockey grown up

and even in college and then went off to medical school. I went back home to Penn, which was a fantastic

experience for me and a great place to go to medical school. I have a lot in common with my dad, even though I think for a while I tried to make sure I wasn't being a surgeon just because my father's a surgeon, but I just turned out that that's really what I love to do. I love general

surgery and I love GI physiology when I was a first year medical student and just sort of

fell in love with general surgery.

And then I, when I was going around interviewing,

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