Chapters Transcript Video Why Yale? Translational research, bench to bedside, makes Yale Medicine unique among other specialists in our area. If you listen to the patient, they'll tell you what's wrong. That always sparks curiosity and innovation. What are the burning questions that patients need us to answer? If you think about medicine, healthcare touches each and every one of us, but medicine can be done the same way again, and and you always have to improve. Translational medicine is the bridge between basic science and clinical care. It's the cycle of observing the patient, having your science driven by the patient on, then bring it back to the patient with therapies. The goal of science is to alleviate human suffering so I can ask the questions. And that informs the way many physician scientists work. I have both an M D and a Ph. D, and I've always tried to bring the two specialties together. So I'm the link to translate any ongoing basic science findings that clinicians at Yale want to translate to their patients. Places like Yale try to nurture those people and provide them a space to really say, Tell us what are tomorrow will be, so it's a better tomorrow. I think the role of the Academic Medical Center is number one to train future clinicians on. That's the education mission, because if you don't train the next generation, there's nobody to take care of all of us. And the second thing is to be the place where clinical trials contained place. We're doing clinical health care, but we're also doing research toe how toe improve health care of the fusion, and that takes a special kind of an institution to support this sort of clinical trial. The Yale New Haven health system provides the infrastructure and the know how to really develop outstanding clinical programs that can attract patients from everywhere. And the more diverse the population of patients that you see more likely your mind would be triggered to find something that's different and where we can advance cater. It's not just about the basic scientists, the translation ist or the commission of the hospital, but it's the team working together. You have so many experts that we can get together in a room and decide what's the most important finding that's going on anywhere, anywhere in the world, that we think we should start to think about translating to the patients that passion, that commitment to say, How can I do better that is what academic medical centers do really well. Way have reached a golden age of medical science is giving us a death of understanding of human disease, which we tap into the lead to new therapies until we can cure all diseases. Anybody's healthy lives for hundreds of years, they have You need to do research you never know which are the very basic, basic basic research discoveries that somebody is working on might end up being super important. Translational e. The whole point off doing research is to help humankind. So if you do not bring it back to the patient, then that knowledge is lost. It has gone nowhere to sit down with a human being who was struck with a disease and be able to understand that disease and then from that lead to new therapies is incredibly purporting. Patients are what inspire me. That's a gift that they give us that big imp dreaming, Big thinking big is where science really delivers to humanity. Yeah, Created by
