>> I think one of the important things is to be interested in just about everything.
To always be willing to learn.
And I really appreciated my education at University
of Delaware, the Bachelor of Arts in Biology.
It allowed me to take a lot of other coursework and so I stumbled into geography
and to really see the links that everything kind of fits together.
We really -- we have different disciplines.
We have chemistry, we have science, we have English,
but the real world is very interdisciplinary.
So just because you do one thing, stay interested in the other things too
and you'll find that those things can start to integrate.
So my work crosses into qualitative research.
They ask patients how they feel, so there's a lot of patient reported outcomes.
Does this drug make you feel tired?
Do you have different side effects?
You have to be able to understand business and marketing.
You have to understand policy and policy level decisions.
You have to understand the actual science and the molecular components.
So my broad interests and the ability to pursue those broad interests through my academic career
and into my [inaudible] was always very much working
with academics [inaudible] disciplines has really helped set me up for where I am now.
So just always stay involved.
Always stay interested.