Pickup Lines: CHRISTUS Children’s CEO opens up about her faith and work/life balance

The latest Pickup Lines segment features CHRISTUS Children’s CEO Cris Daskevich. The West Texas native started her medical career in Houston and never expected to end up running a children’s hospital.

Born in Lubbock and raised in Abilene, she knew from an early age that she wanted to work in the medical field. That focus carried her all the way to Houston, where she was pursuing her Ph.D. and working directly with patients.

“I worked for about a year and a half with stroke and brain injury patients while going to school and figured out it wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do — and I wasn’t sure,” Daskevich said. “One day an administrator at one of the hospitals where I worked came out and he said, ‘Have you ever thought of administration?’ And I was like, ‘In what?’”

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