Career Inspiration

Are you a resident or a residency program leader looking to improve wellness and mental health in your team? In this resident focused episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Amanda North and Dr. Jennifer Nauheim join guest host Dr. Gina Badalato to discuss burnout and wellness in residency.

Are you married to a physician? How do you balance demanding work, busy home life, and conflicting career ambitions as a dual physician couple? In collaboration with the Society of Women in Urology (SWIU), this episode of the BackTable Urology Podcast provides unique perspectives on how physician couples can live an integrated work-life, featuring Dr. Katie Amin and Dr. Peter Bajic, hosted by Dr. Helen Bernie.

In this crossover episode of BackTable Urology and OBGYN, Dr. Suzette Sutherland interviews three urological/gynecologic innovators, Dr. Ali Haessler, Dr. Jay Shakuri-Rad, and Dr. Tova Weiss, who are all at different career stages and product development phases.

In this episode of the BackTable Urology, Dr. Lindsay Hampson (UCSF), Dr. Gina Badalato (Columbia), and Dr. Max Bowman (UCSF) delve into leadership development during urology residency.

This week on BackTable Urology, Dr. Aditya Bagrodia speaks with Dr. Ganesh Palapattu, Chair of Urology at the University of Michigan about the evolving role of a surgeon scientist, the balance between clinical work and research, and the importance of mentorship and positivity.

This week on BackTable Urology, Dr. Ramon Virasoro, a reconstructive urologist in Eastern Colorado, interviews his mentor, Dr. Gerald Jordan, Professor Emeritus of Urology at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

In this episode, Dr. Aditya Bagrodia (UC San Diego), Dr. Lindsay Hampson (UC San Francisco) and Dr. Gina Badalato (Columbia University) discuss the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urology education.

This week on BackTable Urology, Dr. Kristen Scarpato (Vanderbilt University), Dr. Todd Morgan (University of Michigan), and Dr. Philip Kim (Kaiser Permanente) discuss their urologic oncology fellowship experiences, the importance of mentorship, and work-life balance as urologists.

This week on BackTable Urology, Dr. Jill Buckley speaks with internationally-renowned urologic reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Sanjay Kulkarni, about his upbringing, training, and insights on urethroplasty.

On this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Jose Silva and Dr. Jay Simhan, director of reconstructive urology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, discuss how urologists can demonstrate their value to hospital systems.

On this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Jay Shah (Stanford University) and Dr. James McKiernan (Chair of Urology, Columbia University / New York Presbyterian Hospital) discuss practical tips to develop and maintain successful mentor-mentee relationships in medicine.

In this episode of Legends in Urology, Dr. Manoj Monga, chair of urology at UC San Diego, interviews Dr. Ralph Clayman, a world renowned minimally invasive urologic surgeon, about his path to medicine and perspectives on the future of urology.

In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Aditya Bagrodia and Dr. Ruchika Talwar, a urologic oncology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discuss her personal journey to becoming an advocate and how other urologists can get involved in policy making.

In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Angie Smith (UNC Chapel Hill) and Dr. Rena Malik (University of Maryland) discuss practical tips for developing a growth mindset in medicine.

In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Bagrodia and Dr. Jay Simhan, director of reconstructive urology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, discuss how to demonstrate value at a private or academic physician job.

In this episode, Dr. Aditya Bagrodia speaks with Dr. Manoj Monga, chair of the urology department at UC San Diego, about his unique journey to becoming a urologist as well as extra-academic passions that have led him to understand the importance of advocacy.

In this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Jill Buckley, professor of urology at UC San Diego, interviews Dr. Jack McAninch, professor emeritus of urology at San Francisco General Hospital and an international leader in the field of genitourinary trauma and reconstructive surgery.

We talk with urologist Dr. Jay Shah, leader of urologic oncology at the Stanford Cancer Center, about seizing leadership opportunities in the world of academic medicine.

Anish Parikh interviews Urologist Dr. Jose (Oche) Silva about his experiences building a practice from scratch after training, and then a Category V hurricane forced him to start over again.