The Road Well Traveled: Making Choices, Ensuring Progress While Heeding the "Clarion Call".

Clin Obstet Gynecol

University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Advanced Research Training and Innovation, and Center for Birth Defects Research, Baltimore, Maryland.

Published: June 2024

The career path of everyone is quite unique based on the goals and the choices we make, and success can take time to unfold. My career choices have been greatly influenced by remarkable mentors and opportunities. Reciprocally I have had the pleasure, as a faculty member, department chair, and medical school dean to mentor promising young physicians and scientists to launch successful careers. We need to continue to attract physicians and scientists to academic medicine to ensure that our field continues to innovate and improve the lives of our patients. To influence positive change, we must stay relentlessly focused and have faith that success will come.

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