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Maria Siemionow Highlight
It's perceived as 'success' if you dream about something and you achieve it. But between dreaming and achieving, there's work.
About Maria
- She grew up in Poland and traveled extensively throughout Europe; quickly learned that medicine was a universal language.
- Because she learned this so early on, she was always open to go to new places to share and accumulate new knowledge.
- Says growing up in Poland, medicine was not a particularly lucrative field; she chose it because it was truly a passion.
- When it was time for her to complete her residency, she knew she wanted to specialize in microsurgery and hand surgery.
- The best school for her field was the Christine Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Kentucky-she was offered a fellowship and moved to the U.S.
- Became the director of Plastic Surgery Research and head of Microsurgery Training in the Plastic Surgery department of Cleveland Clinic.
- In 2008, she led the team that performed the world's first near-total face transplant.
- Believes that young adults are perfectly equipped to choose a path and dive into a career; says "Napoleon was quite young when he was fighting."