Medical Education and Leadership, Part 6: Foreign Medical Grads in Leadership with Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila MD

Vital Capacity

Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD, is an internationally renowned "Guru of Mechanical Ventilation and Neuromuscular Disease." He is also a fearless leader in the ICU. In this episode, he shares his journey into medicine and how he developed the “10 commandments” of fellowship research.

• Intro :00
• Mireles, thank you for joining me today :19
• The interview 1:07
• In your own words, tell me about your journey … How did this start? 1:13
• How many years is med school in Mexico? 4:45
• And you did internal medicine residency after that? 5:43
• So, you did you 2 years of training there and then moved to the U.S.? 6:36
• I have heard that you had tried to call the secretary back in the day at the Cleveland Clinic and you were not getting to the person … and then eventually you became the boss of the same secretary. 9:43
• You just briefly touched on the value that your wife played in your life. Can you tell me a little bit more about your family? 11:23
• Were the initial few years hard in the U.S.? 12:40
• What other challenges did you navigate? 15:03
• How did you become so fearless? 18:26
• How did you get into these different roles? 23:29
• Tell me a little bit about how, after almost a decade of this leadership position that you have, how do you prevent burnout? 32:13
• Where are some of the favorite places you have traveled? 37:43
• Do you read a lot apart from the books that you need to double up your expertise beyond what everyone does? 39:53
• You’re known as the “ventilator guru,” and that’s how you’re educating the world, not just the Cleveland Clinic. How did you get better at it? 41:45
• I remember being told a story that you were working on a research project, and you didn’t find anything meaningful there and you turned that disappointment into the 10 commandments. Can you share with me what that was? 46:25
• What’s your most important advice to the listener? 49:38
• Thank you so much for your time, Dr. Mireles 50:23

Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD, is the director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and medical director of the Simulation and Advanced Skills Center at the Cleveland Clinic.

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Disclosures: Bhardwaj and Mireles-Cabodevila report no relevant financial disclosures.