Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, is an evangelist for the immune system. “What's my mission in life? To reveal the power of the immune system in treating most human diseases,” she says on Real, Smart People. An internationally acclaimed physician-scientist, Dr. Merad is also passionate about inspiring new generations of scientists. “For people to follow you, you have to show them that this is exciting,” she says. In this audio portrait, Dr. Merad talks about the promise of immunotherapy and the importance of paying it forward.

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, is Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Mount Sinai Human Immune Monitoring Center.

Links:

• Precision Immunology Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (PrIISM)
• Mount Sinai Human Immune Monitoring Center (HIMC)
• Follow Dr. Merad on Twitter 
• Follow PrIISM on Twitter

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Bevin Cohen, PhD, MS, MPH, RN, is Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice at The Mount Sinai Hospital

Links:

• Nursing at Mount Sinai
• Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai
• Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates Nurses Week

Jess Ting, MD, has learned to thrive without road maps. As a kid, he taught himself to play the upright bass and went on to study at Juilliard. Now he’s blazing trails in transgender medicine and surgery. “It’s a great field because it’s so young,” Dr. Ting says. “There’s lots of room to innovate.” Among Dr. Ting’s innovations—a completely new approach to vaginoplasty, called the Peritoneum Vaginoplasty. In this audio portrait, Dr. Ting talks about how innovation happens and what he’s learned from his transgender patients.

Dr. Ting is Director of Surgery at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

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Links:

• Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery
• LGBT Health at Mount Sinai
• Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Community Resources in NYC