Dr. Maija Cheung

Joy, a Podcast. Hosted by Craig Ferguson

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Philosophy

4.7 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Maija Cheung is currently a surgeon at Yale University and the Chief Medical Officer for Kids Operating Room – the world’s leading children’s surgery charity. During her residency at Yale, she started working with group that would become Kids Operating Room (KidsOR). She became the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for KidsOR in December 2023 as well as the CMO for the KidsOR commercial subsidiary Global Hospital which develops healthcare infrastructure and solar powered solutions in low-resource settings with all profit going to KidsOR to create capacity for children’s surgery around the world. Dr. Cheung has spearheaded numerous projects aimed at improving healthcare infrastructure, increasing training opportunities for the health workforce, and promoting access to care in underserved areas. She's currently working on two major projects as a part of her work to build operating rooms for children in Ukraine and a collaboration with NASA and American Oxygen to develop new technology for providing oxygen in low resource settings around the world. I hope you learn something new and enJOY!

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0:00.0	You're listening to an IHeart podcast.
0:06.6	I want you to ask yourself right now, how am I actually doing?
0:10.0	Because it's a question that we rarely ask ourselves.
0:13.2	All of May is actually Mental Health Awareness Month.
0:15.2	And on the psychology of your 20s, we are taking a vulnerable look at why mental health is so hard to talk about.
0:22.0	Prepare for our conversations to go deep.
0:24.0	I spent the majority of my teenage years and my 20s just feeling absolutely terrified.
0:29.6	I had a panic attack on a conference call.
0:32.0	Knowing that she had six months to live, I was no longer pretending that this was my best friend.
0:35.6	So this mental health awareness month, take that extra bit of care of your well-being.
0:39.3	Listen to the psychology of your 20s
0:41.0	on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:43.3	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.7	What happens when we come face to face with death?
0:48.9	My truck was blown up by a 20-pound anti-taint mine.
0:51.5	My parachute did not deploy.
0:53.3	I was kidnapped by a drug cartel.
0:56.3	When we step beyond the edge of what we know,
0:58.6	clinically died the heart stopped beating.
1:01.1	Which I was dead for 11.5 minutes.
1:03.4	In return.
1:04.2	It's a miracle I was brought back.
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