Achieving Balance as a Clinician-Scientist

Achieving long-term success as a clinician-scientist is one of the biggest challenges for those who choose to pursue an MD-PhD. After 18 years of continuous training after high school, I finally embarked on my first "real job" as a faculty member at the Moran Eye Center of the University of Utah in 1995. In this talk, I will discuss how I have balanced a busy clinical retina practice, an NIH-funded basic research laboratory, and my family life during my 25-year academic medicine career.