>> 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.