Temperatures hit a record high this weekend in Chicago. With the mercury rising in my apartment, fans monopolized every outlet and my windows gaped open at all hours. Travelers and tourists in the Loop dabbed at beads of sweat hanging on their foreheads, their cheeks flushed and bare shoulders browning in the sun. On the … Read more
The setting is every wedding, reunion, or family gathering in the Spring of 2018, and I’m in a circle of distant relatives or friends-of-friends, clarifying the distinction between a pharmacologist and a pharmacist. If you want to be the life of the party at this summer’s neighborhood BBQ, explain to the stranger next to you … Read more
That question. It’s always looming. It comes from the tenured professor at the back of the room during my annual progress report to the department. It comes from the clinician from another field who pauses in front of my AHA Sessions poster. Heck, it even comes from my mother as I chat about my day … Read more
On my first morning at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, I picked up my badge and joined the stream of scientists flowing through the sunshine-filled hallways of the Anaheim Convention Center before making my way up the escalator to Ballroom B. A panel of personalities commanded a large table at the head of the … Read more