Real, Smart People
The real story of how medicine moves forward, one smart person at a time.
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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, is an evangelist for the immune system. “What's my mission in life? To reveal the power of the immune system in treating most human diseases,” she says on Real, Smart People. An internationally acclaimed physician-scientist, Dr. Merad is also passionate about inspiring new generations of scientists. “For people to follow you, you have to show them that this is exciting,” she says. In this audio portrait,...
Bevin Cohen, PhD, MS, MPH, RN, is Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice at The Mount Sinai Hospital
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Jess Ting, MD, has learned to thrive without road maps. As a kid, he taught himself to play the upright bass and went on to study at Juilliard. Now he’s blazing trails in transgender medicine and surgery. “It’s a great field because it’s so young,” Dr. Ting says. “There’s lots of room to innovate.” Among Dr. Ting’s innovations—a completely new approach to vaginoplasty, called the Peritoneum Vaginoplasty. In this audio portrait, Dr....
Neurosurgeon Joshua Bederson, MD, has performed more than 4,000 neurosurgeries at Mount Sinai. In this audio profile, he talks about the beauty of the brain and the connection between neurosurgery and his other passion: sculpting. Dr. Bederson is Leonard I. Malis, MD / Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery and System Chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System.
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Early in the pandemic, when little was known about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, neuropathologist Mary Fowkes, MD, PhD, volunteered to perform autopsies on COVID-19 victims. Wearing a full-body protective suit and often working alone, she painstakingly examined the virus’s impact on the brain. What she and her team found shocked her—significant blood clots in the brain and vital organs. The discovery led to the increased use of blood thinn...
First they said it wasn't important to study opioid addiction. Then they said it wasn't possible to do it her way. Hear how Yasmin Hurd, PhD, learned to tune out the noise and take control.
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- Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai - https://bit.ly/2Ic9vfB
- Hurd Laboratory - http://labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/project/hurd-lab/
- "Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences" (article in Nat...
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