Physician-scientists are stretched to the max-one foot by the bed and the other by the bench. What makes them choose this life?

Dr. Raghu Mirmira, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Diabetes and Hormone Center of Excellence at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA is here to discuss his work with transcription factors, the timing of their expression, the genes they target and their structural properties in the hopes of developing new islet cells in Type I diabetics.

Steven Miles, M.D. discusses his book, Oath Betrayed, Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror. Upon seeing the photographs of abuse at Abu Gharaib, Dr. Miles asked, " where were the prison doctors while the abuses were taking place?"