About this episode
Dr. Maija Cheung is currently a surgeon at Yale University and the Chief Medical Officer for Kids Operating Room – the world's leading children's surgery charity. During her residency at Yale, she started working with group that would become Kids Operating Room (KidsOR). She became the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for KidsOR in December 2023 as well as the CMO for the KidsOR commercial subsidiary Global Hospital which develops healthcare infrastructure and solar powered solutions in low-resource settings with all profit going to KidsOR to create capacity for children's surgery around the world. Dr. Cheung has spearheaded numerous projects aimed at improving healthcare infrastructure, increasing training opportunities for the health workforce, and promoting access to care in underserved areas. She's currently working on two major projects as a part of her work to build operating rooms for children in Ukraine and a collaboration with NASA and American Oxygen to develop new technology for providing oxygen in low resource settings around the world. I hope you learn something new and enJOY!