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Neurosurgeon; chair of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
United States · b. 1957
American neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who chairs the department of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. His clinical and laboratory work has focused on brain tumours and on ways of opening the blood-brain barrier to chemotherapy.
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I remember reading The Making of a Surgeon when I was in probably about the sixth or seventh grade. And that was a book that kind of got me focused, I think, on the career path. And I remember, one thing in there I still remember is that you can always tell you’ve really arrived as a surgeon when the nurses in the hospital ask you to be their physician.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 4 May 2001 source ↗
I’ve done almost 4,000 operations for brain tumors. I’m thinking of what’s going to happen ten or 12 steps before. I’m anticipating what’s going to happen in the operation, and I’m comfortable with where we are.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 4 May 2001 source ↗
If you want to do something, one of the smartest things that you can do is go find someone that’s done it and to try to get them to show you how they did it, to show you where the potholes are. What are the right steps to get there? ... And not just in terms of where to go to school, but what are the things that are really tough that you have to overcome, and how did you overcome it.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 4 May 2001 source ↗
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