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IOUBTK fans at Scott here and we are continuing our series on leadership opportunities outside of clinical medicine.

In very pleased to welcome back a returning guest in a mentor of mine, Dr. Connor Delaney, who is the chief executive officer and president of Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Connor, welcome back to Behind the Night.

Scott, it's great to be back.

So did you ever think that a young kid from Dublin, Ireland would grow up and oversee the hospital system as big as five different hospital systems state of the arch research you name it?

How did that journey become?

Yeah, it's funny. Actually, it's even funnier when I think back actually.

Because in the 1988 as a medical student, I visited Cleveland Clinic for eight weeks and spent six weeks in Cleveland and two weeks in Florida when the Florida hospital was literally just starting never thinking I'd be back.

So it's funny the way things work out.

So I think it happened because of two things.

First, my research evolved from basic science into clinical research around laparoscopy and fast track care, which became a lot of recovery.

And then second, and I had the chance to build groups and build teams and realize that building teams and bring people together,

up in the function was something that was important.

And so those two things aligned really because the clinical operations is critical.

Hospitals are always under increasing pressure to perform and manage finances and be viable.

And you can't do it without the right team.

So they kind of fit well together and that evolved into building a group in the time of case and then coming back to the clinic and running digestive disease and surgery, working with you and a lot of other people.

And then this, so it's been a, it's certainly been an interesting series of bridges and pathways and not one I would have predicted 20 years ago.

That's for sure.

So kind of you've had as you said a lot of different positions from you know,

security division chief department chair, institute chair.

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