Dr. Feza Remzi is the Vice-President, IBD surgery at Northwell Health, New York.

His is a true immigrant's tale, having been born in Ankara, Turkey, where he went to medical school, following the path of his parents. Almost immediately after graduation, he moved to the United States, where he planned to be a Urologist like his father. However, failure knocked on his door and he was forced to find an alternative route to success. A preliminary year in general surgery was followed by a full residency at the Cleveland clinic and then a fellowship in Colorectal Surgery.

By now he had fallen under both the spell and mentorship of Dr. Victor Fazio, who became a guiding light in his career. Ultimately, feza was chosen to replace Dr. Fazio, as Chairman of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland clinic, a position held for nine years.

Circumstances changed, and Feza left the clinic quite unexpectedly and abruptly to build a new program of IBD surgery at NYU Langone in New York City. Seven years later moved to Northwell Health, where he is in the process of doing the same thing at the Center for Advanced IBD Surgery.

In a fascinating conversation, we cover many topics, including failure, betrayal, family values, and what really matters in life. This is one not to be missed.

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Tim Michell lives in Southampton and is an ENT surgeon specializing in cochlear implants.

He has just stepped down following a highly successful three year period as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

From a clinical perspective, he has spent his entire consultant life in Southampton having graduated medical school from Oxford.

He was actually born in Belfast, but almost immediately departed to spend the rest of his life in the south of England. His path to ENT surgery was almost organic - as he notes during the discussion he never had a master plan. Having fallen into ENT surgery he soon developed a special interest in cochlear implants which has become his main clinical interest.

His engagement with the Royal College of Surgeons was almost equally serendipitous. However, once inside the doors, his rise to become Council member, Vice-President and then President was certainly rapid, if not meteoric.

His Presidency has been marked by the challenges, facing many organizations and society. Initially, he inherited the leadership of a College undergoing a complete reevaluation of its governance, particularly as it relation to diversity. In addition, he became heavily involved in matters of workplace violence and misconduct, particularly as they relate to Surgery.

When he is not dealing with such weighty matters he is an enthusiastic touring cyclist and in recent years, what was an simple enjoyable hobby has developed into fundraising efforts by cycling from Lands End to John O'Groats. He has further cycling adventures already on the books and will be venturing into Continental Europe.

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Dr John Hunter is a legendary figure in the field of minimally invasive surgery. In the 1980s, before anyone had ever heard of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, he was pursuing higher training in minimally invasive techniques such as endoscopic and laser surgery in a series of fellowships.

Born in New Hampshire, he graduated from medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and following residency in Utah, he spent his early Faculty career in Emory, Atlanta. He then headed west where he became Chair of the Department of Surgery in Portland, Oregon where he has been ever since.

Over several decades, he has seen the world from several viewpoints as an attending Surgeon, a departmental leader, a medical school, administrator and CEO of a healthcare system.

With this experience, he is more than able to discuss some of the challenges facing healthcare in the United States, as well as the problems facing all of the stakeholders involved in patient care.

Throughout his career, he has been a passionate advocate of maintaining the academic mission. He served as president of SAGES, as well as chairman of the American Board of Surgery.

His views on the transformation of medical care both good and bad are well worth listening to in this fascinating discussion.

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