| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
I began my career studying basic sciences back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. After graduate school, I made the decision to study medicine, ultimately completing a fellowship in anesthesiology. During that time, my interest in regional anesthesia led me...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
I have been extremely lucky to be able to mostly do what I enjoy doing, and to have parents who allowed it, even when they didn’t understand what I was doing or why (and maybe I didn’t either). My mother gave us an interest in all things, particularly in the...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
When I completed pharmacy school, in 2006, I was somewhat at a loss as to how I wanted to move forward as a pharmacist. I simply was not emotionally moved by the more traditional opportunities offered in the pharmacy world. However, fate intervened! A pharmacy...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
Initially I had a fascination for the heart and thought about being a cardiac surgeon, a “heart doctor” in the eyes of a child. In college I worked part-time as an EKG technician monitoring in cardiac stepdown units. Working in a hospital emergency...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
I always wanted to be a doctor ever since I was a little girl. No one in my family was in medicine but even then I felt it was my vocation, my true calling to take care of the sick and suffering. I am the oldest of 4 girls, and my father, the biggest feminist...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
I can’t remember ever thinking about a profession other than medicine. My parents tell me that I was one who would place bandages on my friend’s cuts and scrapes. My father is a physician, my mother a teacher, and jointly they inspired me into a career of...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
Research, public service, and the reduction of human suffering have been three consistent themes throughout my career. I started college with the intention of becoming an anesthesiologist (I came from a medical family), but I was also interested in drug policy...
| Article
What inspired you to do what you do?
I was always interested in the complexity of the human brain. To me it is the most fascinating and mysterious organ in the body. It controls so much! After doing some undergraduate work in the neurochemistry of memory, I was drawn into both medicine and...
| Article
What inspired you to become a healthcare professional?
I was completing my PhD when I had the opportunity to spend time with a visiting professor in psychology, Dr. Ed Kremer. Dr. Kremer developed one of the first behavioral medicine treatment programs at Dartmouth. We had many discussions...
| Article
What inspired you to become a healthcare provider?
Being raised by my parents. They are both in their 80s and still practicing psychiatry. My father always says that he has never worked in his entire life because he enjoys his job so much.
Why did you focus on pain management?
During my PM...