Nadine Caron: When Opportunity Doesn’t Come Wrapped with a Bow

About this episode

Martha and Indira interview Nadine Caron, discussing her groundbreaking achievements as a First Nations female surgeon and her educational journey.

In this episode Martha and Indira have a conversation with Nadine Caron, the first Canadian female general surgeon of First Nations descent, as well as the first female First Nations student to graduate from the University of British Columbia’s medical school, being the top ranked student. She has also received an MA degree in Public Health from Harvard and completed a postgraduate fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, focused on endocrine surgical oncology. Nadine ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Martha Piper, Indira Samarasekera

Guest: Nadine Caron

Topics covered

• general surgery
• First Nations
• medical education
• public health
• endocrine surgical oncology

Keywords

• Nadine Caron
• First Nations
• general surgeon
• medical school
• public health
• Harvard
• surgical oncology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of British Columbia, Harvard, University of California, San Francisco

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