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The "my job" page
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From
1988 until 2007 I worked at Duke University Medical Center, the last 13
of those years for a doctor and researcher in pulmonary medicine.
I originally went to pulmonary
to run a big database for a study of how high-dose chemotherapy affects
the lungs. (I'd been doing databases in another department
before that.)
Fourteen years later we're still looking at that,
both basic and human studies, along with antioxidant enzymes'
protective effect .. but we're also
doing work in COPD and asthma,
including interventional studies in humans.
In 2007,
the head of my lab became the chief of the Division of Pulmonary,
Critical-Care, and Sleep Disorders Medicine at the University of
Louisville, in Kentucky. I was a bit reluctant to leave Duke but
the chance to keep working with a person I deeply like and respect,
doing something useful and interesting, made it a no-brainer.
The
group picture is the division; the people I work with. As I'm
creating this revised website, I had to move this photo out of the
"family" section--in the first draft they were in with my family because that's the sort
of people they are. They've made me welcome and it's a joy to
work with them.
Lately
we've been upgrading the existing hospital pulmonary function (PFT) lab
(picture, right), and we're preparing to build a new research lab in
the building that's going up next door to our offices. I've been
spending a lot of time with "PFT reference equations"
lately. I've always liked learning new things--I'm lucky my
job makes that a nearly constant process. :-)
And I'm lucky to work with people I like, doing work I find interesting.
Last updated 29 March 2008; copyright 2008 by the Committee for the Ruthless Suppression of Billy Joel, Inc.