Career Conversations: Q & A with Clinician-Scientist Faheem Guirgis

Dr. Faheem Guirgis. Credit: University of Florida, Jacksonville. “Patients at urban and inner-city hospitals are in dire need of high-quality care and frequently don’t have access to clinician-scientists doing cutting-edge research. That’s part of what has made me committed to performing research in these settings,” says Faheem Guirgis, M.D., an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville. Check out the highlights of our interview with Dr. Guirgis below to learn how he became a doctor and what inspired him to conduct research on sepsis. Q: How did you become interested in science and medicine? A: After the phase of wanting to be a firefighter or police officer, the next thing I remember wanting to be was a doctor. My father was and is my ultimate inspiration for pursuing a career in medicine. He was a family-practice physician committed to providing the best care possible for his patients before retiring recently, and they loved him. Q: What was your path to becoming a doctor? A: I majored in microbiology and immunology as an undergrad at the University of Miami, earned my medical degree from the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University, and completed my emergency medicine residency through the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I chose emergency medicine when I realized how much I loved resuscitation, which is providing care to the most critically ill patients in the early...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Profiles Sepsis Source Type: blogs