Introduction

The CardioNerds Academy Class of 2021 graduation ceremony kicked off the inaugural Sanjay V Desai Lecture: Growth Mindset, Power of Yet, & Pursuit of Mastery. Join us as Dr. Tommy Das (CardioNerds Academy Program Director), and Dr. Saman Nematollahi (CardioNerds Academy Director of Research) discuss Growth Mindset with Dr. Keri Shafer and Dr. David Hirsh. Terrific acting by Dr. Patrick Zakka, Dr. Teodora Donisan, Dr. Ahmed Ghoneem, and Dr. Jessie Holtzman.

Dr. Sanjay V Desai serves as the Chief Academic Officer, The American Medical Association and is the former Program Director of the Osler Medical Residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Keri Shafer is an adult congenital heart disease specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of pediatrics within Harvard Medical School. She completed internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, before completing cardiology fellowship at UT Southwestern and Adult Congenital and Pulmonary Hypertension subspecialty training at Boston Children’s and BWH.   

Dr. David Hirsh is an associate professor of Medicine within Harvard Medical School, as well as the director of the HMS Academy fellowship in medical education and the associate dean of undergraduate medical education.

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