Physician Scientists

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[Text on screen: Ginny L. Bumgardner, MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Physician Scientist Education & Training
Ohio State Surgeon Scientist - Transplantation]

Ginny L. Bumgardner, MD, PhD:
Through the course of my education, training and work here at Ohio State, I've become very passionate about the future workforce in physician scientists who are very, very important to the work that we do here at an academic university. They bridge the amazing things that are going on in the scientific world with the clinical world.

[Text on screen: Robert Baiocchi, MD, PhD
Director, Physician Scientist Development Program
Ohio State Physician Scientist - Hematology Oncology]

Robert Baiocchi, MD, PhD:
Physician scientists are in the trenches with their patients. Physician scientists really form the backbone of innovative approaches to insurmountable problems that many patients face.

Ginny L. Bumgardner:
And allow us to apply these amazing discoveries to the benefit for medicine.

Robert Baiocchi:
What's happening at Ohio State with this Office of Physician Scientist Education and Training is really bringing all these different programs together under one umbrella, under the College of Medicine.

[Text on screen: Sakima Smith, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Ohio State Physician Scientist - Cardiology]

Sakima Smith, MD, MPH:
Patient care drives our research. Things that we see in clinic drive our curiosity, then you have those curious questions that warrant further investigation.

[Text on screen: Cara Noel
Medical Student
Medical Scientist Training Program]

Cara Noel:
That's really the whole goal of the physician scientist route is to see what the gap is in the patient care, bring it back to the lab and then ultimately close that gap for patients.

[Text on screen: Shane Walters
Medical Student
NIH T35 Training Grant]

Shane Walters:
I've been at OSU now for three years. The lab overall works in the different immune sciences, looking at types of organ rejection and how do we prevent that rejection. We identified a specific type of cell that we've shown prevents rejection in mice, and so we want to make sure we know exactly what makes that cell tick, what makes it run, what makes it do its job. And so my project is really interrogating that question so that we can hopefully understand these cells in humans and then maybe use that to come up with a treatment.

[Text on screen: Jonathan Wright, MD
Internal Medicine Resident (PGY3)
NIH R38 Grant]

Jonathan Wright, MD:
The reason I decided to pursue research with Dr. Smith is because I wanted to understand the cardiotoxicity and the side effects of chemotherapies on the heart. What the R38 provided for me is a chance to have some more flexible time in my residency program so that way I can really dig more into research, understand methods, and really get an idea of how the grant process works.

Robert Baiocchi:
These are really critical programs because they provide mentors with the skillsets to provide great high quality mentorship for our trainees, to provide support. Institutional support is a huge need.

Cara Noel:
I fell in love with the problem solving. When the research was failing, it was actually very interesting, albeit frustrating. It was interesting to dig into why is it failing and you really have to understand your science and I found that really fulfilling.

Sakima Smith:
I didn't have a traditional pathway to science and that didn't stop someone from believing in me. So I feel obliged and obligated essentially to do the same for other investigators. Where you see the potential and sometimes you just need to point them in the right direction so they can realize it themselves.

Ginny L. Bumgardner:
Here in Ohio and nationally, we want to be known as an innovative institution, as on the cutting edge of medical care, and really the experts in areas that are complex. That's exactly what physician scientists fulfill.

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University College of Medicine
For more information, visit: medicine.osu.edu]

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