One week after graduating from college my new doctoral advisor looked toward my belt and the first thing he said was, 'good you already have a pager.’ Over the next 4.5 years I spent more than 473 separate evenings and nights in the Cardiac ORs at Temple University Hospital. And on 473 separate occasions I walked across North Broad Street with a human heart in tow – this tissue was used for a myriad of studies that supported my doctoral research. In the second year of my doctoral training I was invited to join the Faculty at Arcadia University as Course Director for a graduate course in Medical Physiology. For eight years the course evolved and nearly 200 students entered the classroom with a vague interest in both science and patient care and left the classroom with a hunger to integrate their knowledge of medical physiology into the care they provided to each and every patient they encountered during their clinical rotations.After years of teaching graduate-level medical physiology I was recruited to direct a global educational campaign designed to improve outcomes for patients with dyslipidemia and evolving cardiac risk. And now, nearly 20 years later, I have had the pleasure of designing, developing, delivering, and supporting medical education around the world. By some back-of-the-envelope math this equates to more than $100,000,000 of education for HCPs that I have personally touched in one way or another.The combined experience as a biomedical scientist and educator led me to a career and a passion for medical education and healthcare improvement. And this passion continues to this day. Specialties: Applied research in adult (medical) education, learning science, and behavioral science