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I think what's been most interesting for me is
listening to the experiences of the other participants,
learning about their backgrounds, hearing about their research interests,
talking with them about what interests them about aging.
I was in the Peace Corps.
I was in the Congo or what was Zaire at the time, and I was a public health volunteer.
And I worked in a …
as an educator, public health educator in a hospital.
I was called over one night to ...
to see a C-section
of a young woman who had actually been at the hospital for almost a week.
She had walked miles from her village.
She looked really sick when she had come in. She had been in labor for, oh, days,
and they finally decided to section her.
It was an extremely rough section, and unfortunately, the baby was dead when he was born.
I went and visited the mother the next day. She looked at me and said, you know, I can't go home without my baby and she died.
And I thought, you know, there's got to be a better way than this.
There's just no reason that women should die because of childbirth or from childbirth.
And so I decided to become a midwife.
The focus of my research is geriatric syndromes in ***-infected individuals.
More specifically, I’m interested in exploring falls in ***-infected individuals,
looking at the epidemiology, looking at risk factors,
and then talking with ***-infected patients about a fall that they've had and get a sense about
what might interventions look like, and how would these interventions likely
differ from those that we already have for the elderly population.
The experience of the Summer Institute I think will influence my career,
first of all, just by giving me a solid
foundation in aging research and what's really the latest and greatest in
aging research.
I think it will also be extremely valuable when thinking about applying for grants.
We've learned a lot about planning your career, strategizing on grants.
And it will be helpful from both of those perspectives,
as well just having contacts, knowing who to talk with.
When I’m thinking about my next grant, I’ll know who I need to call up and speak with.
I’d like to be an independent researcher
with a shop of my own, with graduate students, post-docs,
continuing in geriatric syndromes and ***.