What motivated you to become a physician-scientist?
As part of the physician-scientist community I will always hold onto the “bench to bedside”
model. It is where I first encountered the medical doctors that I found myself wanting to
emulate. Growing up, my brother was born with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome. He had a long
list of specialists he would see at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, but the most remarkable
was his geneticist, who in addition to compassionately explaining to our family what life would be like in the years ahead, also ran a genetics laboratory studying his disease and ultimately defining the cause and structural alterations that cause it.