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Dr. Catherine DeVries

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Yeah, so I went to Augusta. Actually, this is a bit of my personality situation. There were some opportunities where I could have gone to be somebody's junior partner. I did want to set up my own program, and Augusta, they needed a pediatric urologist there. So at that time, then I was also the only female urologist on the faculty.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Yeah, so I went to Augusta. Actually, this is a bit of my personality situation. There were some opportunities where I could have gone to be somebody's junior partner. I did want to set up my own program, and Augusta, they needed a pediatric urologist there. So at that time, then I was also the only female urologist on the faculty.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And also, I was on call 24-7 for five years because I was the only pediatric urologist there. And so that was a very good experience in surgical terms. I also had, for the first couple of years, a 5-8 appointment to the VA hospital. So I still took care of adults. And, you know, I like taking care of adults.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And also, I was on call 24-7 for five years because I was the only pediatric urologist there. And so that was a very good experience in surgical terms. I also had, for the first couple of years, a 5-8 appointment to the VA hospital. So I still took care of adults. And, you know, I like taking care of adults.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And also, I was on call 24-7 for five years because I was the only pediatric urologist there. And so that was a very good experience in surgical terms. I also had, for the first couple of years, a 5-8 appointment to the VA hospital. So I still took care of adults. And, you know, I like taking care of adults.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

I was, during that time, also working with colleagues from the CDC doing reconstructive urology on adults with lymphatic filariasis. which is a terrible condition, also known as elephantiasis. But many people will have seen pictures in textbooks about how men can get terrible scrotal, big hydroseals, and in addition, also leg edema.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

I was, during that time, also working with colleagues from the CDC doing reconstructive urology on adults with lymphatic filariasis. which is a terrible condition, also known as elephantiasis. But many people will have seen pictures in textbooks about how men can get terrible scrotal, big hydroseals, and in addition, also leg edema.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

I was, during that time, also working with colleagues from the CDC doing reconstructive urology on adults with lymphatic filariasis. which is a terrible condition, also known as elephantiasis. But many people will have seen pictures in textbooks about how men can get terrible scrotal, big hydroseals, and in addition, also leg edema.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And in certain parts of the world, it is a terrible, terrible condition. And so I worked a lot with the CDC to develop standards for that, also with WHO. And so with reconstructive urologists, before reconstructive urology became its own thing. There were just a few people who were really doing it a lot, kind of well-known for it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And in certain parts of the world, it is a terrible, terrible condition. And so I worked a lot with the CDC to develop standards for that, also with WHO. And so with reconstructive urologists, before reconstructive urology became its own thing. There were just a few people who were really doing it a lot, kind of well-known for it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And in certain parts of the world, it is a terrible, terrible condition. And so I worked a lot with the CDC to develop standards for that, also with WHO. And so with reconstructive urologists, before reconstructive urology became its own thing. There were just a few people who were really doing it a lot, kind of well-known for it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Jerry Jordan and Jack McAninch were some of the big guys at that time. And I learned a lot from them when I was doing more than just the pediatrics, but the reconstruction for the adults.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Jerry Jordan and Jack McAninch were some of the big guys at that time. And I learned a lot from them when I was doing more than just the pediatrics, but the reconstruction for the adults.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Jerry Jordan and Jack McAninch were some of the big guys at that time. And I learned a lot from them when I was doing more than just the pediatrics, but the reconstruction for the adults.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Yeah, I looked around at a lot of different places and oddly, one of the reasons why Utah looked so good was the airport. So if you are working in a big city and it takes you an hour to get from where you live and work into the airport,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Yeah, I looked around at a lot of different places and oddly, one of the reasons why Utah looked so good was the airport. So if you are working in a big city and it takes you an hour to get from where you live and work into the airport,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

Yeah, I looked around at a lot of different places and oddly, one of the reasons why Utah looked so good was the airport. So if you are working in a big city and it takes you an hour to get from where you live and work into the airport,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And at that time, we had to take all the equipment we were going to be using because in many places you couldn't be sure that the suction would work, the cautery would work, even the anesthesia medications would be available. So we had to take everything in great big plastic boxes and we'd take them all over the planet. And so it matters how you can get all of these things through customs.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And at that time, we had to take all the equipment we were going to be using because in many places you couldn't be sure that the suction would work, the cautery would work, even the anesthesia medications would be available. So we had to take everything in great big plastic boxes and we'd take them all over the planet. And so it matters how you can get all of these things through customs.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 212 Expanding Her Scope with SWIU: Dr. Catherine deVries on Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Global Impact

And at that time, we had to take all the equipment we were going to be using because in many places you couldn't be sure that the suction would work, the cautery would work, even the anesthesia medications would be available. So we had to take everything in great big plastic boxes and we'd take them all over the planet. And so it matters how you can get all of these things through customs.