Dr. Catherine DeVries

You know, it's hard to know exactly about contributing to the success part. I think persistence contributes to success, whether you're a man or a woman. And I was persistent. I guess I still am kind of persistent. But I think also it is a little different voice. I think we bring to conversations a little different voice and a little different set of values and experience.

Not to say that one or the other is bad, but I'm glad that we have a better mix and balance of voices. Now at the university, we have a... I think five or six women faculty members. We just all took a photo recently at my retirement, and so it was great fun to see how many of them. But I think as an advantage goes, when I could get heard and sometimes I couldn't get my voice heard.

Not to say that one or the other is bad, but I'm glad that we have a better mix and balance of voices. Now at the university, we have a... I think five or six women faculty members. We just all took a photo recently at my retirement, and so it was great fun to see how many of them. But I think as an advantage goes, when I could get heard and sometimes I couldn't get my voice heard.

Not to say that one or the other is bad, but I'm glad that we have a better mix and balance of voices. Now at the university, we have a... I think five or six women faculty members. We just all took a photo recently at my retirement, and so it was great fun to see how many of them. But I think as an advantage goes, when I could get heard and sometimes I couldn't get my voice heard.

Then it stood out. The problem sometimes is just getting heard. And I experienced this interestingly more at the American Urological Association than I did with my own university in terms of male colleagues and getting heard. That took a little longer.

Then it stood out. The problem sometimes is just getting heard. And I experienced this interestingly more at the American Urological Association than I did with my own university in terms of male colleagues and getting heard. That took a little longer.

Then it stood out. The problem sometimes is just getting heard. And I experienced this interestingly more at the American Urological Association than I did with my own university in terms of male colleagues and getting heard. That took a little longer.

I discovered early on when I was traveling around, and as I mentioned before, we used to take everything when we would go. We would bring our own instruments, we'd bring our own equipment, cautery machines, anesthesia machines, really everything to make sure that we had what we needed in order to do the surgery that we were intending to teach and to do.

I discovered early on when I was traveling around, and as I mentioned before, we used to take everything when we would go. We would bring our own instruments, we'd bring our own equipment, cautery machines, anesthesia machines, really everything to make sure that we had what we needed in order to do the surgery that we were intending to teach and to do.

I discovered early on when I was traveling around, and as I mentioned before, we used to take everything when we would go. We would bring our own instruments, we'd bring our own equipment, cautery machines, anesthesia machines, really everything to make sure that we had what we needed in order to do the surgery that we were intending to teach and to do.

ivu has always been an educational organization we started that out to be an educational organization the motto was teach one reach many but it wasn't specifically just to do surgery and go home because that can always lead it leave a trail of disaster or maybe not disaster but if you even have one or two complications and you haven't worked with somebody else

ivu has always been an educational organization we started that out to be an educational organization the motto was teach one reach many but it wasn't specifically just to do surgery and go home because that can always lead it leave a trail of disaster or maybe not disaster but if you even have one or two complications and you haven't worked with somebody else

ivu has always been an educational organization we started that out to be an educational organization the motto was teach one reach many but it wasn't specifically just to do surgery and go home because that can always lead it leave a trail of disaster or maybe not disaster but if you even have one or two complications and you haven't worked with somebody else

locally to manage that and to know what to do, you haven't really helped. In fact, you can hurt and undermine the whole effort. So we have sought and intended to work with people who have wanted us to be there to teach them. So there's no point in my mind going into somebody else's

locally to manage that and to know what to do, you haven't really helped. In fact, you can hurt and undermine the whole effort. So we have sought and intended to work with people who have wanted us to be there to teach them. So there's no point in my mind going into somebody else's

locally to manage that and to know what to do, you haven't really helped. In fact, you can hurt and undermine the whole effort. So we have sought and intended to work with people who have wanted us to be there to teach them. So there's no point in my mind going into somebody else's

hospital home community and to work with the patients that they care for every day without respecting their position in that community and to work with them to help them provide better care for their patients. And as we do that inside hospitals, you start to learn about hospital systems.

hospital home community and to work with the patients that they care for every day without respecting their position in that community and to work with them to help them provide better care for their patients. And as we do that inside hospitals, you start to learn about hospital systems.

hospital home community and to work with the patients that they care for every day without respecting their position in that community and to work with them to help them provide better care for their patients. And as we do that inside hospitals, you start to learn about hospital systems.

And I think this is a thing that we rarely learn in medical school here in the States or probably anywhere else is how the system works. How do hospitals work? How are the nurses hired? It matters because the nurses are very often hired on a different system than the doctors are. So if all the nurses go on strike as a surgeon, you're toast. You can't do your work. You need to understand