In this episode, Bhardwaj’s mentor, Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, FACEP, FAHA, discusses the importance of a strong mentor-mentee relationship, his path into internal and emergency medicine training and much more.  

• Intro :00
• Welcome to another episode of Vital Capacity :19
• About Abella :28
• The interview 1:40
• Tell me a bit about yourself in your own words 1:54
• The importance of blending the personal and professional aspects of academic mentorship 5:00
• How do you find balance? Define a day for me 8:41
• You’re one of the few people in the country who are trained in both internal medicine and emergency medicine … Can you share with me how that started? 11:50
• If someone wants to have a physician-scientist career, what advice would you give them and do you have any experiences and examples you can share? 18:21
• After you were trained in emergency medicine residency and the resuscitation fellowship, you are now leading all these efforts at Penn. When did that transition happen? 21:14
• Can you share some of the ways you navigate talking to other physicians and convey the message of timing of cardiac care after cardiac arrest? 29:11
• Can you tell us the story about the soldier and the use of cardiac cooling? 34:53
• Thanks so much, Ben 39:33

Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, FACEP, FAHA, is the professor and vice chair of research at University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He directs the Center for Resuscitation Science and the Penn Acute Research Collaboration at the University.

We’d love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to Dr. Bhardwaj at [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @HealioPulm @abhi_bhardwaj99. You can reach Abella on Twitter @benjaminabella.

Disclosures: Abella reports receiving honoraria from Becton Dickinson, Stryker and Zoll; research fees from Becton Dickinson, NIH and PCORI; and ownership in MD Ally and VOC Health. Bhardwaj reports no relevant financial disclosures.