Profiles in surgical research: John Alverdy, MD, FACS

[摘要] My story is very nontraditional, and if I have had any success, it has been against all odds. If anyone looked at my background, they might think “this certainly is the road less traveled to end up as a tenured professor at University of Chicago with 20-plus years of NIH funding.” I was a Spanish major as an undergraduate with a minor in biology. My love of language and travel sent me on a path to foreign affairs schools with the intention of becoming a diplomat. I had little interest in becoming a physician except for the fact that my father, a dentist and son of an immigrant, insisted I go to medical school. I recall the day I spoke with my advisor, who felt that graduate school in biology would be my best bet to successfully compete for admission to an American medical school. Ironically, I had a strong distaste for biology, so being relatively fluent in Spanish, without applying to any American medical schools, I headed off to medical school in Guadalajara for three years.

[学科分类] 外科医学