Dr. Lorna Rodriguez
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Mental Algorithmics
Puerto Rican? Gay? Female? Left-Handed? (Sometimes this one matters to surgeons!) Which one of these is the reason you hate me? Surgeon, Professor, and Vice Chair of Faculty Development at City of Hope, Dr. Lorna Rodriguez has navigated them all, often many or all of them at one. With all the challenges, Lorna knows exactly what it is to be forged in fire, to navigate adversity and come out stronger on the other side. She's used her experiences to build collaborative environments where everyone's perspective contributes to better patient outcomes. She's even consciously re-coded the algorithms in her brain to address biases, enhance her safety, and support those around her.
Puerto Rican? Gay? Female? Left-Handed? (Sometimes this one matters to surgeons!) Which one of these is the reason you hate me? Surgeon, Professor, and Vice Chair of Faculty Development at City of Hope, Dr. Lorna Rodriguez has navigated them all, often many or all of them at one. With all the challenges, Lorna knows exactly what it is to be forged in fire, to navigate adversity and come out stronger on the other side. She's used her experiences to build collaborative environments where everyone's perspective contributes to better patient outcomes. She's even consciously re-coded the algorithms in her brain to address biases, enhance her safety, and support those around her.
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Guest Biography
Dr. Lorna Rodriguez is a Surgeon, Professor, and Vice Chair of Faculty Development at City of Hope in Duarte California, where she also serves as part of the Enterprise Leadership Team. For more than 30 years, Lorna has been a standout in gynecological oncology, consistently rated one of America's "Top Doctors," Specializing in ovarian cancer, she has served as clinician, instructor and researcher at several of America's leading medical institutions. A noted researcher, Dr. Rodriguez studies ovarian cancer with the goal of making discoveries for a cure, as well as understanding the importance of racial and ethnic differences in clinical outcomes. Dr. Rodriguez previously spent two decades leading the Gynecologic Oncology Department at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. She earned her medical degree at University of Puerto Rico Medical School and continued her training at Rutgers, the University of Michigan and University of Rochester. She's held positions at Rochester, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, among others. She was recently selected to participate in the prestigious Carol Emmott Fellowship program, which focuses on accelerating the leadership capacity and impact of women leaders in health. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines, journals and two books, including Precision Medicine Oncology from Rutgers University Press. |
Show Notes
Season 2, Episode 10 Credits
Guest: Lorna Rodriguez Host: Liz Cavallaro Host: Bree Fram Audio: Frieda Garcia |