Your Degree is More Versatile Than You Think, with Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, Speaker, Advisor, CMO
Inside The Doctor's LoungeShow Notes
In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, whose many hats include CMO, Speaker, Advisor, Author, and Consultant
They discuss:
– Dr. Nayyar’s first foray into life outside clinical medicine helping within her own hospital system
– Why Dr. Nayyar decided to get an MBA and what value she thinks it brings physicians
– How she stepped into a big role as the CMO at AT&T and what she had to learn quickly to fit in and have others take her seriously
– How she navigated or created career changes in order to have the life she needed to have outside of medicine
– Many lessons she thinks doctors looking to make a change need to know, and how to get past the fear of uncertainty
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