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Meet Dr. Nancy E. Oriol, associate dean for student affairs and assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School (HMS), co-director of obsetric anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, inventor of devices to resuscitate newborns and analyze fetal heart rates, founder and co-director of The Family Van and respected researcher...
...question, Oriol is successful, but her path was rather unconventional...
...Though Oriol knew she wanted to be a doctor eventually, her plans upon graduation from Boston University in 1967 did not involve medical school. Because Oriol's father died early in her undergraduate years, she had to shorten her time as a student to be able to pay for her tuition. After finishing college in three years, Oriol confesses, "I was tired and I knew I wouldn't be a good student...
...asked myself, `What was I interested in?'" Oriol says. Deciding that she wanted to know more about child and developmental psychology, Oriel took a position as a counselor at a state hospital's adolescent ward as her first post-college...
With a cheering bit of idealism, Oriol explains, "I wasn't worried about the end of the career at the beginning. I chose to do what felt good and what I could grow...