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Physician-Scientist Discussion Sessions & Colloquia
Seminar Legend: Upcoming seminar — Past seminar
“A Career without a Map: Lessons from Academic Life”
Mukesh K. Jain, M.D. — Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Brown University
*Monday, Nov 16, 2026 — 5:00pm – 6:00pm (Room EG013)*
“Bones and Blood: My Journey as a Physician-Scientist”
Joy y. Wu, M.D., Ph.D. — Division Chief of Endocrinology, Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Science, Medicine, Gerald M. Reaven, M.D. Professor of Endocrinology Stanford University School of Medicine
“A Peculiar Path to Public Health”
Dr. Scott Rivkees, Professor of Practice — Brown University School of Public Health
“Multi-variable equations, dominos (not the pizza), and boats: Some thoughts about science and academic medicine”
Alvin C. Powers, M.D. — Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science, Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Professor, Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Director, Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology
“From reading the genome for risk to rewriting it for cardiovascular health”
Sekar Karhiresan, M.D. — CEO of Verve Therapeutics
“Rheuminations On A Career As A Physician Scientist”
Dr. Robert Colbert M.D., Ph.D. — Senior Investigator, Chief, Pediatric Translational Research Branch, Acting Clinical Director, Acting Chief, Pediatric Clinical Trials Unit, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
“On Being a Physician-Scientist”
Stephanie Eisenbarth M.D., Ph.D. — Associate Professor Laboratory Medicine & Immunology, Yale University School of Medicine
“The Career of the Physician-Scientist: One Story”
Margaret H. Baron, M.d., Ph.D. — SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR EDUCATION, Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Professor of Oncological Sciences, Professor of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“To Be A Physician-Scientist: The Good, The Bad, And The Amazing”
Michael Rosenblum, M.D., Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
“Finding Cardiomyopathy Genes: Lessons Learned About Biomedical Science & Career Choice”
Christine Seidman, M.D. — Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“The Joys Of Translational Research”
Barry Coller, M.D. — David Rockefeller Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, The Rockefeller University Hospital, and Vice President for Medical Affairs, The Rockefeller University
“The Vanishing Physician-Scientist?”
Andrew I. Schafer, M.D. — E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor, Chairman, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
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