What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
What inspires and motivates me is meeting people and interacting with them. I've been working at the Medical School for a little over 9 years. As a Customer Service Sales Attendant in the Atrium Café...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
Every day, I am inspired by the work of my colleagues, the Center's leadership, and the collaborative environment in which we engage with one another to the benefit of our researchers and collections...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
Simply put, I love microscopes and I love teaching. I feel very fortunate to have found a role where I can indulge in my passions every day, in an intellectually-stimulating and exciting research...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
What inspires me is my belief in, and dedication to, the mission of HMS and our students, whose lives will be dedicated to fulfilling that mission. My job at HMS enables me to interact with many of...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
I'm motivated by the delight in working with talented and committed staff, students (graduate, dental and medical) and faculty. More than anything, I believe in HMS's fundamental commitment to make...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
It's not uncommon to feel disconnected from the research, science and medicine when you work on he administrative side of HMS. However, inspiratior s easily found in listening to the findings...
In what ways do you feel you contribute to the Harvard community?
I moved to Harvard Medical School in 2005, drawn by the intellectual energy and openness to new ideas.
I came with the dream of joining kindred spirits eager to make the world a better place...
What is the significance of the object you brought with you to the photo shoot?
This Maasai statue of a mother kissing her child demonstrates the genuine love and well being that I see in my patients at the African Women's Health Center. Maternal health in...
Newborns are certainly the smallest and generally among the sickest patients receiving health care.
The delivery of preterm and sick infants occurs in every social strata, but they are over-represented among the impoverished and among women of color. There...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
I am most inspired by my work with medical students. I am the Faculty Advisor for the HMS Chapter of the Association of Women Surgeons and also the Faculty Advisor for the HMS Writers Group. The...
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
The students, residents, fellows and post-docs working at HMS/HSDM are talented and dedicated clinicians, investigators and educators who will make many important contributions to the future of...
In what ways do you feel you contribute to the Harvard community?
As a medical student with a disability (type 1 narcolepsy with cataplexy), I am passionate about making medical education more accessible to all. During my first year of medical school, I...