Behind the Microscope

Dr. Maria Uloko is a fellow in sexual health, transgender health, prosthesis and reconstruction at San Diego Sexual medicine. She is also the creator and host of the Battlecry podcast in which she interviews leaders of color in science, technology, engineering and medicine. We are big fans of her show and are excited to have had the opportunity to talk with her about her life, her path to medicine...

Dr. Victor Faundez is a Professor of Cell Biology at Emory University. He received his MD and PhD from Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, did a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF, and ultimately joined the faculty here at Emory University. Dr. Faundez has been and continues to be a mentor and friend to countless of our fellow MD, MD-PhD, and PhD trainees throughout the years. Today we discuss hi...

Dr. Taku Kambayashi is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his MD-PhD from Emory University. In this episode he discusses his remarkable journey to becoming a physician scientist. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Kambayashi f...

Dr. Hannah Turbeville is the current President of the American Physician Scientist Association (APSA). She is also a 7th year MD-PhD student currently in the final stretch of her M4 year. She got her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi prior to matriculating at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s MD-PhD program. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Turbeville for being o...

Dr. William Petri is the Wade Hampton Frost Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia. He received his MD and PhD from the University of Virginia, did an internal medicine residency at the University Hospital of Cleveland, and an infectious disease fellowship at UVA. Today we discuss his journey with him and two of his mentees – H...

Dr. Adam Marcus is the Winship 5K Research Professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of Basic Research and Shared Resources for Winship Cancer Institute. He received his PhD in Biology from Penn State University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer pharmacology at Emory University before ultimately...

Dr. Haydn Kissick is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Translational Research in the Department of Urology with a joint appointment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Immunology from the University of Western Australia and did his postdoctoral training in Prostate Cancer Immunology at Harvard Medical School. He is...

Dr. Edward Botchwey is an Associate Professor in the Walter H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland followed by a Master’s of Engineering and a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia before ultimately being recruited to Georgia...

Dr. Rebecca Levit is an assistant Professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at Emory University. Dr. Levit got her MD from the University of Pennsylvania and did her residency in medicine and her fellowship in Cardiology here at Emory before joining the faculty in 2014. She is also the research mentor for our very own executive producer, Michael Sayegh. In this episode we discuss her pat...

Dr. Ann Jernigan is a DVM-PhD and retired Senior Vice president of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development. Dr. Jernigan received her doctor of veterinary medicine and her PhD in pharmacology from the University of Georgia. She worked in private practice, then academia, and ultimately landed in industry, where she led the global comparative medicine department for Pfizer. Today, she shares with...

Dr. Robin Lorenz is the Senior Director of Research Pathology at Genentech. Dr. Lorenz got her MD-PhD from Washington University in St. Louis where she also received her residency training in clinical pathology. She later moved to the University of Alabama where she served as the Director of the MD-PhD program and physician scientist development office, and received her master’s degree in healthca...

That’s Dr. John Lowe, today on Behind the microscope. Dr. John Lowe, MD, is the retired Senior Director of Pathology at Genentech inc. Dr. Lowe got his MD from the University of Utah, went to residency at Washington University in St. Louis, was an HHMI investigator at the University of Michigan, chair of pathology at case western reserve University and ultimately the Senior director of pathology a...

Dr. Alberto Espay is a Professor of Neurology and the Director of the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder. Dr. Espay got his MD from the Central University of Venezuala, received his residency training at Indiana University, and fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is also the author of the book “Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurod...

Dr. Luisa Cervantes-Barragan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Emory University. Dr. Cervantes-Barragan got her PhD and did a postdoctoral fellowship at Kantonsspital St. Gallen. She then did a postdoc at Washington University in St Louis before joining the faculty at Emory. Today, she shares with us her path to academic research, and her incredible pass...

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy and Assistant Dean for Mentoring at Weill Cornell Medical College. She has spent more than 25 years involved in physician and physician scientist education at Weill Cornell and was the administrative director of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program. Dr. Gotian received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the State University o...

Dr. Curtis Henry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University. Dr. Henry received his BS from Florida A&M, his PhD from Wake Forest University, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus before joining the faculty at Emory University in the Department of Pediatrics. He was also recently featured in a cell press artic...

Dr. Pearl Ryder is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Dorothy Lerit at Emory University. Dr. Ryder received her BA from the University of Chicago and her MD-PhD from Emory University. Today, Dr. Ryder shares with us her journey to finding her passion in research and her perspective on MD-PhD training and the role of physician scientists. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Ryder for being on the podc...

Dr. Daniel Moore: The final installment of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Moore is an assistant professor of pediatrics and the director of Vanderbilt’s Pediatrician Physician Scientist Training Program. Dr. Moore received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, his MD-PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and then went to Vanderbilt to complete a residency in pediatrics and a fel...

Dr. Christine Lovly: Episode 4 of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Lovly is an Associate Professor of Medicine, co-leader of the translational research and interventional oncology research program, and an alumnus of the Vanderbilt PSTP. Dr. Lovly received her BA from Johns Hopkins, and her MD-PhD from Washington University in St. Louis before coming to Vanderbilt. Today, Dr. Lovly...

Today we catch up with our colleague and friend, Victoria (Vicky) Avanzato, a 5th year MD/DPhil student in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) MD/PhD Partnership Training Program. Vicky discusses her unique physician-scientist education which consists of medical school training at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), and graduate school training at the University of Oxford (U.K.) and the Natio...

Dr. James Madara is the CEO and executive Vice-President of the American Medical Association. Dr. Madara began his career at Harvard, where he spent 22 years, later becoming the Chair of Pathology at Emory University, then the Dean of the Medical School and CEO of Hospitals at the University of Chicago, before joining the leadership at the AMA. Dr. Madara discusses his life, his views on leadershi...

Today we chat with Faith Anderson, a 1st year PhD student at the University of Michigan, and her PI – Dr. Teresa O’Meara, about their experiences as researchers in the time of COVID19. Follow our guests on Twitter: Faith Anderson: @microbialfaith Dr. O'Meara: @teresa_omeara More info on the O'Meara Lab: https://omeara.lab.medicine.umich.edu/home We also want to hear from you! Please reach out by e...

Dr. Patrick Hu: Episode 3 of our 5 Part feature on Vanderbilt University. Dr. Hu received his MD-PhD from NYU and is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Physician Scientist Training Program (PSTP) at Vanderbilt University. Today, we discuss the structure and vision of the Vanderbilt PSTP, as well as Dr. Hu’s own career trajectory, the importance of mentorship, and...

Today we continue our quarantine series with a conversation with our friend and colleague Emma D’Agostino, a 4th year PhD student in the Biochemistry, Cell, and Developmental Biology program at Emory. We discuss life in lockdown, the toll of social distancing on the research enterprise, and her new science communication blog. Find her blog at: https://ehdagostino.wordpress.com/blog-3/ Find her on...

Chris Peek is an MD-PhD Student at Vanderbilt University. We caught up with him in January on the Vanderbilt campus and asked him about his experiences in the MSTP and his goals for his training and career. In the second half of this episode, we talk to him in mid-April after coronavirus had thrown a wrench in graduate and medical education and discuss how life has changed while we all shelter at...