Professor Kevin Shea is an orthopaedic surgeon and academic at Stanford University Medical Center (California, USA) and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He is well known as a founding member of PRiSM, ROCK and SCORE. He is in the presidential line at POSNA.

In this engaging episode, Prof Shea and I cover a lot of ground including:

Prof Shea's orthopaedic journey and life lessons: 01:20

Work ethic and the value of hard consistent work
Coaching and Mentoring
Medical school (UCLA and time in the Soviet Union)
Fellowships including Rady Children's Hospital (San Diego, USA), Bern (Switzerland) with Dr Ganz (Switzerland), Dr Fernandez (Trauma) and Dr Staubli (Sports), Lecco (Italy) for Ilizarov training, South America for the AOSSM Traveling Sports Medicine Fellowship
Private Practice in Boise and being invited to become Professor of Orthopaedics at Stanford University
The concept of "Deep Work"
Planning early / mid / late career
Value = Quality / Cost, what is the role of orthopaedic surgeons in this equation?
The need to balance work and personal life

Paediatric Sports Injuries (42.00)

How as the world of paediatric sports injuries changed during his career?
Is there an increasing incidence and have the nature of the injuries changed?
Have our interventions evolved?
What is the role of injury prevision programs?
What is the next big advance in the field?

Paediatric Knees (53:00)

How did he go about setting up a cadaveric lab?
Did he find anything surprising in the dissections?
How has his deep understanding of anatomy influenced his clinical and operative techniques?

Research groups - PRiSM, ROCK and SCORE (64:15)

Why establish these groups? What is the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to advancing research?
What impact have these groups had so far?

Orthopaedic Education - What are his top tips for medical students, residents and newly qualified surgeons? (69.30)

The importance of good cultures and teams

Final thoughts and advice (72.00)

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