Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin
Catherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next. Full bio
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Galapagos Islands,
and a big school of sharks.
of friends for about a week,
hammerhead sharks.
throwing you into the rocks
for that beautiful photograph.
all the way through your hand,
have a venom on them that,
gives you horrible, painful inflammation.
in my mind at this point.
into, like, little scientists,
adrenaline brain kicked in,
get my glove off with these in here."
coming up in front of my face.
and starts freaking out.
have gotten into that wound already?"
and very calmly explains,
down really hard over my hand,
dissipate a bit before we have to surface
They don't feed when they're schooling.
the same books that I have.
with sea urchin spines,
from any medical help,
is, unfortunately, cook your hand.
as hot as you can stand,
absolutely insane.
for several weeks after that,
fine motor skills returned.
stiff and painful for weeks
a tip of the urchin spine
"You know, we should get this out.
for a few weeks out on a Monday.
in a horseback riding accident.
facing six weeks on the couch,
if it hadn't been for my friends.
at my house every night for weeks.
hard to sustain over the long term,
to just one friend,
in the evenings --
during this period of convalescence.
pronounced well enough
and drove up into the mountains
Just the opposite, in fact.
to that marvelous introvert
would have approached me
than needing a walker
a funny little epilogue.
I could reschedule that surgery,
from all the bones in your body --
that you happen to have lodged
warm-blooded-mammal brain,
that that confers.
is one of the things
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Catherine Mohr - RoboticistCatherine Mohr loves what she does -- she's just not ever sure what it will be next.
Why you should listen
An engineer turned surgeon turned strategist, Catherine Mohr is always on the lookout for new technologies to help improve patient outcomes while trying to stay in her sweet spot -- the steep part of the learning curve.
As VP of Strategy for Intuitive Surgical in Silicon Valley, faculty at Singularity University and advisor to med-tech startups in the UK, the US and her native New Zealand, Mohr follows her self-admittedly geeky passions wherever they lead her, as she designs, makes, writes, tinkers, plays and travels all over the world.
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