“Leading With Your Heart: Leadership Lessons from the OR”

Kathy Magliato (MED ’90) is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—surgeons who perform heart transplants. Magliato will present a TED-style talk discussing the leadership principles she has learned in the operating room (OR) and applied to everyday leadership challenges. Through this discussion, participants will be taken inside the workings of a cardiac OR where the execution of leadership skills means the difference between life and death.

Magliato will present “Leading With Your Heart: Leadership Lessons from the OR” Thursday, May 2, at 4 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building, Room 105.

About Magliato

Magliato is the director of women’s cardiac services at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, and an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, California, where she is developing a women’s heart center to address the cardiac needs of female patients.

Register through the School of Medicine event portal.