By Alyssa Brown I want you to think of your first love. Close your eyes, and think of them. Mine was a blonde-haired nerdy linebacker on my college’s football team. I remember the heartbreak of h...
By Anna Garcia Whitlock, MD Banting - Metabolism, Huggins - Oncology, Murray - Immunology. These are three of the nine surgeons who’ve won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. To me, it see...
By Gillian Goddard, MD My path has deviated significantly from what I envisioned when I started medical school. I would never have anticipated that future me would join a basic science lab during res...
By Danilea M. Carmona Matos Recently, I attended the Latino Surgical Society’s (LSS) 1st Surgical Symposium on Latino Health held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I was delighted with the idea of ...
By Luz María Rodriguez MD, FACS This is the first of a series focusing on the components involved in writing a successful grant application. Surgeons by nature are natural scientists. Our curi...
By Ashley M. Holder Although a surgical career is becoming a path more traveled by women, few of them are pursuing the track of surgeon scientist. In an era when fewer surgeons, regardless of gende...