Driven by a passion for discovery, Dr. Rebecca Gilbert, Ph.D. '02, M.D. '03, chose neurology in part because it’s a specialty in which so much remains unexplored. “Although something like cardiology or nephrology might be very interesting, I didn’t want to go into a field where the basic knowledge was firm,” she says. “We know very little of what actually goes on in the brain. It felt like something I could spend my life learning about.” As chief scientific officer of the American...
