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Dr. Balakrishnan is a neonatologist, quality improvement specialist, and clinician educator at Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Balakrishnan attended Sri Ramachandra Deemed University, Chennai Sri Ramachandra Medical College for medical school and an internship in internal medicine. Next, she did her residency in pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Finally, she did her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In this podcast you’ll hear Dr. Balakrishnan talk about the differences that she felt from going to medical school in India, and practicing in the United States, her work as a neonatologist as well as a quality improvement specialist, and the influence which her parents had on her journey to medicine and where she is now. White Coat Story is a podcast series for school students to gain first-person insights into the practice of medicine, and what it takes to get there.