Paving the Pathway for Clinician-Scientist Training

Coming to Toronto as a life-sciences student was life-changing for Neil Goldenberg. 

It was 2001. Goldenberg had just finished his third year of undergraduate study in British Columbia, and had come to the University of Toronto for a summer research program at the Institute of Medical Science. 

By chance he landed in the lab of Mel Silverman, a physician and researcher at University Health Network who was also founding director of U of T’s MD/PhD Program, launched in 1984.

“Like many undergrads, I was unaware that clinician-scientist training existed,” says Goldenberg, now an associate professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Temerty Medicine, and a scientist and staff anesthesiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children. 

“Suddenly this whole other path of the clinician-scientist became apparent, and it was very attractive.” 

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