Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
This summer, I traveled to Brazil for a course on dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Sao Paulo (FMUSP), where I not only received hands-on… Read More »Telemedicine and the Brazilian Health Care System
In an essay I published last year for the Lasker Essay Contest (and republished in our blog), I described optogenetics and chemogenetics, two technologies recently… Read More »A Revelation About DREADDs: A New Neuroscience Technique with Promise for Clinical Psychiatric Treatment
Fighting malaria is getting harder, with rising rates of drug resistance and drug tolerance making it more difficult for doctors to effectively cure patients. Drug… Read More »Smarter Antimalarial Use: Altering Drug Duration to Improve Efficacy
We’re getting old. Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and technology over the last century have increased the average human lifespan in the United States by… Read More »Genetic Double-Agents Are Making You Old
The seasons I spent running high school cross country have long gone, and I'm far from a great long-distance runner now, but I remember three… Read More »Nearing the Finish: A Reflection on Medical School
For the majority of the population, MDMA, or ecstasy, is simply an illegal drug, its use exclusive to underground dance clubs and its abuse the… Read More »Ecstasy and Agony: Accepting MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy as a Breakthrough PTSD Treatment
“From Prison Cell to Ph.D.” is a series following the journey of Dr. Stanley Andrisse, who was convicted of 2 felony drug charges and sentenced to… Read More »Ban the Box on College Applications
It’s the beginning of my third and final year of residency, and I can finally see the light at the end of the training tunnel.… Read More »Reflections on Residency from a PGY-3: The Beginning of the End
After their qualifying exams are over and most of their required coursework is completed, graduate students disperse back to their labs for the long haul.… Read More »How to Beat the Third-Year Slump
More often than not, people come to a point in their academic careers where they hit a wall; some of us just do it more… Read More »Hitting a Wall