My Voice in Surgical Leadership
Publication is a mainstay of an academic career in surgery.
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Perhaps one day I will publish again, in the PMID, peer-reviewed sense.
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So far, however, I have found conversations with mentors, colleagues, and students to be far more powerful in complexifying and distilling nuances of important problems, such that we can influence the world for good.
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Also, I am convinced that intersections create the most important learnings. There is no field for "Applied Neuroscience in Surgical Leadership." Yet. Surgical Ethics contains that space for now.
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Below you can find some of the most powerful conversations I've shared.
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If you think we can make the House of Surgery (or world) better together, please reach out to offer your proposed conversation. Whether an Albuquerque community group or a professional meeting, we might find ourselves in alignment!
Featured Podcasts
In the BOSS Surgery interview, my professional coach, friend, and colleague Amy Vertrees interviews me about my transformative process resulting from investment in professional reinvention after going through breast cancer in 2020:
In this Becker's Healthcare interview, we discuss how good habits, more than technologic advances, are essential to the best possible future of surgical care:
Featured Talks
2026 (forthcoming) Academic Surgical Congress: Panel: The Scalpel and the Storm: When the Surgeon is the Patient.
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This talk captures who I've become through doing the proverbial "work" to grow through the painful experience of confronting my own mortality.
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The below talks give language to some of the most important--and hidden--topics influencing health care costs and outcomes in America.
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2023 Northwest Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeon Ethics Lectureship, Clinical Ethics Faculty Advisor and Content Coordinator. Topics included (1) decisional capacity, (2) mitigating bias, (3) syndemics and social determinants of health, and (4) gallows humor in medicine.
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2022 Clark JE. Identifying and mitigating bias in medical decision-making, specifically the process of informed consent. Presented at the Northwest Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Ethics Symposium.
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2021 Clark JE. Informed consent: a platform for discussion of scarcity, diversity, equity, and inclusion in American healthcare. Presented to the Midwest Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. March 2021.
Favorite Works by Others
These works have profoundly influenced my professional and personal development. I believe fluency in these spaces is essential to improving outcomes and costs in both individual lives and American Healthcare.
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