How a Stroke Pioneer Is Rewriting Brain Medicine
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Who is Dr. Camilo Gomez and what makes him a stroke pioneer?
I'm actually probably the most senior interventional neurologist in the United States. I've been doing interventions for 35 years. You know, I'm still doing 300 procedures a year easily. So our work is actually taking care of brain vascular problems from outside.
Dr. Camilo R. Gomez is a neurologist, medical educator, and healthcare innovator. He helps advance stroke care and neurological medicine through pioneering clinical leadership, medical education, and a lifelong commitment to improving patient outcomes.
The real problem, at least for me, that hasn't been solved is what makes us who we each are. Think about this. Two patients die. One of them was a mathematician. The other one was a janitor. You take their brains. They're dead. Put them on a table. There's no difference between those two brains. We don't know. We still don't know what the essence of what you could call the soul is. It's a very well-known phenomenon. It's called neural network facilitation. The more you use a certain neural network, the more it facilitates its use. If you think a certain way, you manifest that in a certain way, that process gets facilitated over and over again. So the question is, how can you do that to your event?
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Hey, welcome back everyone to another episode of Living Your Legacy Podcast. I'll be your host today, Jay Slangen, and we're here in the podcast studio in sunny Miami Beach, Florida. All right. And we have a special guest today, one of America's best doctors, and this guy's top notch. I've heard a little bit about him, but we're going to get to know him together. What's your name? Where are you from? And tell us about what kind of doctor you are.
My name is Camilo Gomez. I am an interventional neurologist. I'm actually probably the most senior interventional neurologist in the United States. And I work for University of Missouri in Columbia, in Columbia, Missouri.
Yeah, yeah, right. So when I think of interventional, right, I think of kind of stopping it before something happens?
And sometimes reversing it when it has happened. Okay. The term interventional really has to do with minimally invasive procedures where we use little catheters and balloons and stents to go from within the blood vessels to fix a problem. Either open a vessel that has been blocked or to shut down a vessel that is bleeding.
Okay. And that's usually for like cardiovascular diseases and that?
The original... idea of interventional work started in the legs and the coronaries in the heart. We work in the brain. Yeah. So our work is actually taking care of brain vascular problems from outside, essentially either going through the artery in the groin or in the artery in the wrist with catheter all the way out to the brain.
Wow, that's like intense stuff. So how long do you have to study and how long is the pathway to get to a position like yours?
Well, for the basic training program involves having finished medical school. The individual spends four years doing neurology as a postgraduate education. And after that, they need to spend one year doing vascular neurology. And after that, they need to do two more years of interventional neurologists. It's a total of seven years after medical school.
All right, seven years after eight years. Or no, how long is medical school again?
Well, in the United States, it's four years of medical school after four years of college.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
So it's eight years. So you're talking about eight and seven. It's 15 years.
Yeah, all right. So that's quite a journey. Yeah, I mean, I feel like the field of neurology is really interesting, and there's so much coming these days. Um, so I had a hypnotist here, right? And she was saying that like our, our, our pathways, uh, to the brain and I'm going to, I'm going to mess this up.
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