Road to Resilience
Road to Resilience
Mount Sinai Health System
Life on the Front Lines
52 minutes Posted Nov 11, 2025 at 11:00 am.
Introduction and Content Advisory
Meet the guests
From Wall Street to the Pizza Oven
Building a Family Business
Trading the Apron for a Uniform
Becoming a Green Beret Medic
Afghanistan Deployment
Training in Ukraine
The Drive to Push Limits
Discipline and Perspective in Medical School
Lessons from the Battlefield and the Classroom
Advice to Younger Self
A Defining Moment of Resilience
Closing Reflections on Service and Adaptability
Gratitude and Farewell
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Daniel Nicastri, MD, a former Navy doctor and current Mount Sinai thoracic surgeon, interviews Lou Guerra, former Green Beret and current student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Guerra shares his journey from running a successful pizza restaurant to the battlefield to the classroom, and how the lessons he learned in Afghanistan and Ukraine helped him meet the academic challenges on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This episode of Road to Resilience is published in observance ...