Dr. Lewis Teperman On What the Business World Can Learn from Organ Transplants

Dr. Lewis Teperman serves as the Vice Chair of Surgery and is Director of Solid Organ Transplantation at Northwell Health. His interest in medicine started with a childhood hamster who needed an appendectomy, and, later, he decided to organ transplantation surgery after seeing his college roommate lose his mother who couldn't receive a transplant in time. Here, Dr. Teperman, a pioneer in liver transplantation, shares what he's learned about all facets of medicine, including the business side, the patients that made the biggest impact on him, and the future of transplantation.