Unlocking Mobility and Health in Midlife | Dr. Vonda Wright
The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
4.6 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Defying Aging
In this episode of the Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, I sit down with Dr. Vonda Wright, a pioneering orthopedic surgeon and women’s health advocate, to explore the powerful intersection of mobility, aging, and resilience. Dr. Wright shares her inspiring journey from growing up on a Kansas farm to becoming a leader in orthopedics, and how her non-traditional path shaped her approach to health and wellness.
We explore:
- Preventing Frailty and Aging Well
- Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause
- Empowering Women’s Health
Whether you're curious about aging well, staying strong, or redefining your health at any stage of life, this episode is packed with practical advice, cutting-edge science, and inspiration to help you thrive.
Who is Dr. Vonda Wright?
Dr Wright is a practicing board certified Orthopaedic Sports Surgeon, Author, Speaker, Researcher and Innovator serving as a key opinion leader at the intersection of Musculoskeletal Aging & Longevity | Women’s Health | Sports Performance. Her clinical practice focuses on shoulder, hip and knee arthroscopy and advances the use of needle arthroscopy and orthobiologics. Widely recognized for her thought leadership, Dr Wright is a frequent media and conference expert and her innovative science-based approach is changing the lives of millions in mid-life.
In addition to treating active people and athletes of all ages and skill levels, she is a clinical champion for ideators in the biotech, sports innovation and longevity environments to develop innovation pipelines.She works to clarify and amplify great ideas through a deep clinical lens while applying entrepreneurial adventure principles to understand, evaluate and stimulate innovation.Harnessing the new science of aging and her decades of aging research, Dr Wrightdeveloped the Precision Longevity Experience, a bespoke concierge program for high capacity executives, surgeons and people seeking health optimization, peak performance and longevity.
Dr Wright trained at the University of Chicago, University of Pittsburgh andHospital for Special Surgery.She Served as University of Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Faculty and the medical director of the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex fornearly20 years prior to building an orthopaedic department for the NorthsideHospital system in Atlanta.Dr Wright has spent her career caring for collegiate and professional athletes from football,soccer,world rugby, the PGA and professional ballet.
The founder & CEO of Precision Longevity, Dr Wright currently practices in Lake Nona Florida where she lives with her husband, 2x Stanley Cup champion Peter Taglianetti, the youngest of their blended family of 6 kids, her actively aging parents and 2 old dogs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Gabrielle Lyons Show, where cutting-edge science meets innovation and practical application for everyone. |
| 0:08.0 | In today's episode, I sit down with the epic Dr. Vonda Wright. |
| 0:13.6 | She is an extraordinary physician, physician scientists, and truly changing the game in women's health. |
| 0:21.3 | Now, as always, I hope you enjoy this episode |
| 0:23.7 | and in this conversation with Dr. Vonda Wright. |
| 0:32.1 | Dr. Vonda Wright, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 0:35.6 | I am very, very excited. In fact, I would say, I am more |
| 0:40.6 | excited to talk to you than I think, now friends that are listening that have been on the show, |
| 0:46.0 | don't take this the wrong way, but I'm so excited to have a conversation with you. I feel like |
| 0:51.6 | we're old friends. Yes. And we're just sitting in front of each other for the first time. |
| 0:55.5 | I absolutely agree with you. |
| 0:57.7 | You are a mom, you are a surgeon, you are an innovator, you're so many things. |
| 1:04.0 | What I want to know to start is how. |
| 1:09.0 | Why? |
| 1:10.1 | How are you here? How did I work hard enough to get to this place and still |
| 1:15.5 | standing or is that what you're asking me? Let me, let me ask it in a little different way. It takes |
| 1:21.6 | a lot of sacrifice. It takes a lot of grit and resilience to even become a doctor. Let's just say to become a physician, |
| 1:29.5 | but then to become a surgeon and to be a mother. But even before that, you had a bit of a non-traditional |
| 1:39.1 | beginning. Yeah. And I'll just, I'll just end with this. One last thing is that it's in those moments of |
| 1:46.2 | transition that you really see what someone is made of, because you could have just kept doing |
| 1:51.3 | what you were doing. I could have been really happy there. Yeah. So you know what I think, |
| 1:56.2 | I love that you give me the opportunity to talk about this road of mine because I was just invited by a group of women doctors to talk in their event. And guess what? They want me to title my talk something about the long view or the long road. And I said, are you just doing this because I'm getting older? And you think that 30 years is |
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