{"id":1065,"date":"2019-03-25T13:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2019\/03\/25\/where-she-needed-to-be\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T13:50:05","slug":"where-she-needed-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2019\/03\/25\/where-she-needed-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Where she needed to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ks-lower-titles\">When University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physician and researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/directory\/elizabeth-m-stringer-md\/\">Elizabeth Stringer, M.D., M.Sc.<\/a>, finished her OB-GYN residency in 2001, she and her husband, Jeff, had one young child and another on the way, and were considering the next steps in their careers and lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ks-credits animated fadeInUp delay5 duration2\">\n<p>\u201cWe had both become very interested in global health after spending six weeks in Thailand on an HIV project,\u201d said Stringer, an associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine. \u201cI remember the night we decided to move to Zambia. We were sitting outside at a Lebanese restaurant on a warm, beautiful night, and I just burst into tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stringer had been to Zambia once before, and admittedly had never considered moving there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just scary. I wasn\u2019t connected to Zambia then, and I saw it very superficially. A rundown hotel, food I didn\u2019t like, poverty. To uproot our family with young children and move to this place seemed crazy. But, I knew that I had to do it. 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