Kidney Surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke Advises How To Find Your Life’s Passion

By Matt Windsor

To be a surgeon, you have to have confidence.

“I tend to be grandiose in my thinking,” said Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program and vice chair for Health Services Research in the Department of Surgery. “Dream big or go home.”

When you have helped start a pioneering transplant program, been featured on national television, changed laws in two countries and given hundreds of people — on two continents – a second chance at life, you have probably earned the right to believe, as Locke does, that “anything is possible with enough hard work and determination.”

But success and satisfaction are not the same thing. (See any NFL superstar’s contract talks.) So why does Locke say “I don’t feel like I come to work” and “I genuinely love what I do”? She shared the answer to that question, and her advice on career success, at a Sparkman Center for Global Health seminar. Thanks in part to the Sparkman Center Fellows program, Locke had the opportunity this year to extend a collaboration with transplant surgeon Elmi Muller at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

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