 Most of my time is spent in the clinic, but in my non-clinical time, I do a combination of basic and clinical research. The focus of my basic research is building theoretical models of cancer with Integrative Mathematical Oncology - a group headed up by my two mentors: Sandy Anderson and Robert Gatenby. It is with this group that I think I have found a niche that connects my past (physics) with my future (cancer). I find that spending my time doing a combination of theoretical cancer research and patient care keeps me thinking outside the box in the clinic, but keeps my theoretical questions grounded to ideas that can be translated to the clinic. My clinical research is focused on glioblastoma and this will likely be my clinical focus going forward. My final career goal is to split my time between the clinic, taking care of cancer patients, and the laboratory, building theoretical models of cancer and collaborating with biologists to validate these models. I hope, by spanning both worlds, to be able to ask and answer questions relevant to both cancer biology and patient care in ways that are not yet being addressed. I have recently started a new twitter feed at: @CancerConnector, feel free to follow along! |