Real Mentoring: Lessons from ‘The Liver Queen’

In 1970, I had the opportunity to spend time at the Royal Free Hospital in London. One of my professors at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the late Leon Schiff, a renowned liver expert, arranged for me to work under Professor Sheila Sherlock. I was placed in a laboratory that was investigating the presumed immune basis of primary biliary cirrhosis. Roy Fox and Frank Dudley, the faculty in the lab, warmly welcomed me and taught me the basics of immunology research. My first scientific paper in Gut, was based on this work.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research