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Divya Srikumaran, MD, joins us on the Faculty Factory to discuss the habits and hacks that have led to her success while navigating a multigenerational household with her family. This is the second installment of our new season called, “H3: Habits and Hacks from Hopkins.”
On these new episodes, I talk with faculty about the practices, efficient routines and ideas we could all benefit from hearing about in academia and beyond.
At Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Srikumaran serves as:
- Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
- Vice Chair for Education, Wilmer Eye Institute
- Director, Wilmer Eye Institute at Odenton
As you’ll learn on today’s episode, Dr. Srikumaran is a graduate of the Emerging Women’s Leadership Program here at Johns Hopkins.
“There’s a lot of literature and studies that suggest women still bear the lion’s share of the homecare responsibility whether it’s for their children or ageing parents,” Dr. Srikumaran said.
According to Dictionary.com, “the sandwich generation” is a generation of people, typically in their thirties or forties, responsible for bringing up their own children and for the care of their aging parents.
If you are interested in learning more about this common phenomenon, you’ve come to the right podcast.
With her husband as a physician too, the reality was obvious early on for Dr. Srikumaran, “There’s no daycare that was going to be open for the hours we needed,” she said.
Dr. Srikumaran describes living with both her parents and in-laws while caring for her own children. She also explains how some of the things she learned in our Leadership Program have been applicable to her home life.
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