Remember he had very important life before Hopkins at LA Children's Hospital. I was his first faculty recruit - at Children's Hospital LA in 1991. He was my Mentor for 9 yrs and even after he moved to J Hopkins- and I moved to Cedars Sinai - he continued to mentor me. I owe my academic success t him. He was the key person who played a major role in my development as a successful physician scientist- and I clearly owe my academic success to him, to the rigor and discipline, perseverance, and most of all the love and the THRILL of discovering a new scientific findings that he instilled in me. I remember getting cow brain to isolate the bovine brain micro vessel ECs in our lab and immortalized them. So many people have used them after that for years. I received my first NIH grant when I was with him at LA Children's. After he left to Hopkins, and I moved to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA, I built a Peds ID Division after his model, and now have 21 yrs of continuous NIH funding , and 6 other faculty members in our Division also became NIH funded- so he is the one who really passed on this success to me.I wanted everyone to know this.
Here is a memory I will never forget and told this to Melissa:
It was hard as an Assistant Professor - when he recruited me to LA Children's Hospital -to keep up with that rigor and the hard work in the lab , hard to learn to apply for grants and write papers and being on the clinical service and balance it with family life , and I will never forget during one of the ICAAC or IDSA meetings while we were sharing a hotel room together for the meeting and we went jogging in the morning, he told me that one of the greatest pleasures that he has was to run in mornings and think with excitement of which experiments he can plan and do the next day in the lab!. At that time , I was too young and naive, and I remember thinking “ that’s crazy – who thinks like that way ?“. Many years later after I moved to Cedars Sinai Medical Center and built my own Lab and Peds ID Division, got my own Grants and hired my own team – I realized exactly what he meant – and I realized that I became just like him –and that I do the same thing about the planning what experiments to do next and the excitement and thrill I get when discovering something new ---- and it bring tears to my eyes when I type this - but he was the one who instilled this in me – and I am passing it on to the next generation. There is nothing more thrilling in life than investigating something in the lab and making a new discovery. I am eternally thankful to my mentor Dr. Kim. Moshe Arditi, MD
Remember he had very important life before Hopkins at LA Children's Hospital. I was his first faculty recruit - at Children's Hospital LA in 1991. He was my Mentor for 9 yrs and even after he moved to J Hopkins- and I moved to Cedars Sinai - he continued to mentor me. I owe my academic success t him. He was the key person who played a major role in my development as a successful physician scientist- and I clearly owe my academic success to him, to the rigor and discipline, perseverance, and most of all the love and the THRILL of discovering a new scientific findings that he instilled in me. I remember getting cow brain to isolate the bovine brain micro vessel ECs in our lab and immortalized them. So many people have used them after that for years. I received my first NIH grant when I was with him at LA Children's. After he left to Hopkins, and I moved to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA, I built a Peds ID Division after his model, and now have 21 yrs of continuous NIH funding , and 6 other faculty members in our Division also became NIH funded- so he is the one who really passed on this success to me.I wanted everyone to know this.
Here is a memory I will never forget and told this to Melissa:
It was hard as an Assistant Professor - when he recruited me to LA Children's Hospital -to keep up with that rigor and the hard work in the lab , hard to learn to apply for grants and write papers and being on the clinical service and balance it with family life , and I will never forget during one of the ICAAC or IDSA meetings while we were sharing a hotel room together for the meeting and we went jogging in the morning, he told me that one of the greatest pleasures that he has was to run in mornings and think with excitement of which experiments he can plan and do the next day in the lab!. At that time , I was too young and naive, and I remember thinking “ that’s crazy – who thinks like that way ?“. Many years later after I moved to Cedars Sinai Medical Center and built my own Lab and Peds ID Division, got my own Grants and hired my own team – I realized exactly what he meant – and I realized that I became just like him –and that I do the same thing about the planning what experiments to do next and the excitement and thrill I get when discovering something new ---- and it bring tears to my eyes when I type this - but he was the one who instilled this in me – and I am passing it on to the next generation. There is nothing more thrilling in life than investigating something in the lab and making a new discovery. I am eternally thankful to my mentor Dr. Kim. Moshe Arditi, MD
