We Want Progress, But Are Resistant to Change with Dr. Gil Wernovsky. Pediatric Cardiology Legend + Co-Chair of World Congress. Open-Minded Practice + Dynamics of Successful Medical Teams
The Cellfie Show
Tori Meskin x Sam Manassero
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Wernovsky is a pediatric Cardiologist and Intenvisist specializing in Cardiac Critical Care at Children's National Hospital. Dr. Wernovsky graduated with his BS degree in 1978 in anthropology and music! He attended Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1982. He completed a pediatric residency at New York Hospital (now known as Weill Cornell Medical Center) in 1985, and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1988, with a focus on cardiac intensive care. He was appointed the Associate Director of the Cardiac ICU in 1995.
Dr. Wernovsky started at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1995, where he was the Medical Director of one of the first Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units in the United States. Dr. Wernovsky has been involved in the training and mentoring of over 300 fellows in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, neonatology, critical care medicine, and cardiac anesthesia, in addition to countless residents and medical students. He has edited six textbooks and 13 periodicals and has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and reviews. He has an H-index of 91 and his work has been cited over 25,000 times.
He is a founding member of:
- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (1996)
- International Society of Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support(2009)
- World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery (2010)
- Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative (2016)
- Congenital Heart Academy (2020) – which presented over 100 webinars free of charge in 2020-2021 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, to over 26,000 attendees in over 115 countries.
He is also the co-chair of the upcoming 8th Quadrennial World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, planned for August, 2023 in Washington, D.C. He was awarded the prestigious Newburger-Bellinger Award in 2015, for his lifetime contributions to the field of Neurodevelopment in children with heart disease. We are so thankful for his time today and to have on a man with such passion to change lives and improve medical team dynamics.
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| 0:00.0 | The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will take place in the United States for the first time in 38 years in Washington, D.C. between August 27th and September 1st, 2023. |
| 0:11.9 | There are 22 interdisciplinary tracks. There will be about 4,000 to 5,000 people. |
| 0:16.7 | It's an opportunity for you to meet people you work with, either directly or collaboratively from all over the world that we hope to see in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:41.0 | Hey guys. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the selfie show. |
| 0:42.9 | It's Tori and Sam. |
| 0:44.1 | Two besties bring you all things health care, humor. |
| 0:46.3 | And unpopular opinions. |
| 0:48.7 | What's going on? |
| 0:49.5 | I mean, this year, it's like you close your eyes for two days and everything's always something new, |
| 0:58.1 | something changed. Like, what the hell? I cannot keep up. I know. Literally, this week was popping. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah. It's a showdown. Unpopular opinion. I don't know. Is this popular or unpopular? Like, |
| 1:10.3 | because I don't know where people are at. |
| 1:12.1 | Okay. Yeah. With thread. Here we go. Are we threading? I'm, I like it. I'm threading. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm like, I was number 10, user 10 million something. I'm like user 81 million because I was on the |
| 1:26.2 | slow train and had I had to come up for air because I've |
| 1:29.7 | just been in a black hole but like holy smokes like it just pop in though it is absolutely unhinged |
| 1:36.9 | it is hilarious okay so I had Twitter in 2011 and it was unhinged I think my account so often |
| 1:43.9 | it's private thank God so if you want to look me up, |
| 1:45.9 | you can't. It's private, which is good because all of my drunk tweets from 2011 when I was in nursing |
| 1:51.0 | school, all private. But I was unhinged. My name was the saucy minks, by the way. I love that for you. |
| 2:00.5 | That was literally my MySpace name and my Twitter name back in, you know, 2000. That's fabulous. Nine through 2011, whatever. But, bro. Yeah. I used to just like drunk tweet unhinged shit. I feel like that energy back. And I love it. Like people are saying things that |
| 2:18.7 | they would never post on their stories. Oh my God. I know. I love this. Whomps are you? What is going on? |
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