38: Giving Your Life to a Cause by Lindsay Bryson

Meet Lindsay:Lindsay Bryson is a pediatric nurse by training and worked predominantly as a pediatric nurse in Canada and the USA before joining MSF in 2003. Between 2003 and 2007 she worked in different capacities (nurse, medical team leader) in Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi, Chad, Somalia and the DRC. She started as Medical Coordinator in 2007 in the Central African Republic and worked in this capacity in in Haiti between 2012 and2015, DRC in 2016 and most recently Ethiopia between 2016 and June 2018. She gained her Master’s in Health Sciences specializing in Bio Medical Ethics at the University of Toronto in 2011.Lindsay has been involved in wide ranging aspects of medical operations within MSF ranging from design and implementation of sexual and gender-based programming, running complex hospital structures, responding to outbreaks (hospital and community based), medical advocacy, research for neglected diseases and malaria and large-scale refugee responses for South Sudanese and Eritreans arriving in Ethiopia. Lindsay has co-authored publications around obstetric care access and cholera treatment in pregnant women in Haiti. She is the Principal investigator on a long-term operational research project studying the neurodevelopment and growth of neonates in Haiti. She started as Medical Advisor to the Sweden Innovation Unit in 2018.Contact Lindsay:Website: www.msf.orgFacebook: lindsay.bryson.71Go to http://www.bit.ly/thenatandsarahshow to catch this week’s livestream! The Podcast's 7th SeasonWelcome to In the Game, a podcast where we aim to touch, move and inspire you to what's possible in life. My name is Sarah Maxwell and I am a self-proclaimed relationship engineer. Ever since I was a little girl, I was curious about how people work and how they interact with one another. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball. With a degree in biopsychology representing my country of Canada in beach volleyball, retiring from sport into mindset and purpose coaching, I now spend my days running Chatta-box Media, where we aim to story-tell for brands through the medium of podcasting, all while raising an eight-year-old daughter with my partner of 24 years. We are now in season seven of this podcast, featuring a special series on women called who Knew that Was Work aimed at young women who want to broaden their horizon when it comes to career choosing. Go deeper into the pod and discover incredible stories of changemakers who manifest their dream lives. Gain tangible tools to apply to your own life by scrolling back to that initial season where we were more workbook focused. Have a laugh when we initially were coined the Nat and Sarah show, when my five-time Olympian partner, natalie Cook, and I bantered and had loads of fun interviewing and discovering our common passion individuals who rise to the occasion in life. Okay, now it's time to dive on in to this episode. Ge...