Show Notes
Thank you for joining us on Cold Steel! Dr. Caprice Greenberg is a surgical oncologist at UNC School of Medicine in North Carolina. She is a preeminent health services researcher and also the founder of the Academy for Surgical Coaching. We caught up with her to do a deep dive on surgical coaching and the work that she’s done on a state-wide level to create a coaching program. Dr. Greenberg is an iconoclast and provides some really important insights on the importance on having a vision and pursuing it, no matter how off the beaten path it may be. Bio: Dr. Greenberg is a world-renowned health services researcher and surgical oncologist, and she most recently served as chair of the Department of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. She also is a leader in the study of care delivery in operating rooms and innovative approaches to collaborative learning and will bring research projects to the School of Medicine related to surgical coaching and methods to improve rural cancer care delivery. Greenberg earned her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and her Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her general surgery residency was completed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and she completed her surgical oncology fellowship at the Dana – Farber/Partners Cancer Center in Boston. Links: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28650360/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28146224/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33605579/ Academy for Surgical Coaching. https://surgicalcoaching.org/ Presidential address for AAS https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29078918/
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