Aditya Bagrodia

So transformative experience at Hopkins. And I have to imagine you were offered to stay there for as long as you wanted, but you went out to seek your own fortune, so to speak. Is that right?

So transformative experience at Hopkins. And I have to imagine you were offered to stay there for as long as you wanted, but you went out to seek your own fortune, so to speak. Is that right?

So transformative experience at Hopkins. And I have to imagine you were offered to stay there for as long as you wanted, but you went out to seek your own fortune, so to speak. Is that right?

And initially it sounds like your interest was both in nephrolithiasis, kidney stones, as well as cancer in the early days. Is that correct, Dr. Menon?

And initially it sounds like your interest was both in nephrolithiasis, kidney stones, as well as cancer in the early days. Is that correct, Dr. Menon?

And initially it sounds like your interest was both in nephrolithiasis, kidney stones, as well as cancer in the early days. Is that correct, Dr. Menon?

Okay. Okay. And then across your path, particularly maybe in St. Louis, you cross-pollinated with some of the other notable greats in laparoscopic surgery. Did that happen? Kavusi, Klayman, did you all overlap?

Okay. Okay. And then across your path, particularly maybe in St. Louis, you cross-pollinated with some of the other notable greats in laparoscopic surgery. Did that happen? Kavusi, Klayman, did you all overlap?

Okay. Okay. And then across your path, particularly maybe in St. Louis, you cross-pollinated with some of the other notable greats in laparoscopic surgery. Did that happen? Kavusi, Klayman, did you all overlap?

So amazing pedigree, awesome self-starter story coming from India, starting at a community program, winding up at Hopkins, you know, certainly at the time, unequivocally, probably the greatest. Urology program in the country, in the world, moving on to places like WashU, incubators of a lot of development.

So amazing pedigree, awesome self-starter story coming from India, starting at a community program, winding up at Hopkins, you know, certainly at the time, unequivocally, probably the greatest. Urology program in the country, in the world, moving on to places like WashU, incubators of a lot of development.

So amazing pedigree, awesome self-starter story coming from India, starting at a community program, winding up at Hopkins, you know, certainly at the time, unequivocally, probably the greatest. Urology program in the country, in the world, moving on to places like WashU, incubators of a lot of development.

I think at that time, it kind of seems like there is a critical energy mass accumulating for something special, something big. This is my sense, just learning a little bit about you. Is it accurate?

I think at that time, it kind of seems like there is a critical energy mass accumulating for something special, something big. This is my sense, just learning a little bit about you. Is it accurate?

I think at that time, it kind of seems like there is a critical energy mass accumulating for something special, something big. This is my sense, just learning a little bit about you. Is it accurate?

And can you talk a little bit about getting to Detroit and going from really important work in nephrolithiasis continually funded by the NIH to changing the way that urologic surgery and urologic cancer surgery is performed?

And can you talk a little bit about getting to Detroit and going from really important work in nephrolithiasis continually funded by the NIH to changing the way that urologic surgery and urologic cancer surgery is performed?

And can you talk a little bit about getting to Detroit and going from really important work in nephrolithiasis continually funded by the NIH to changing the way that urologic surgery and urologic cancer surgery is performed?

So things were working well, you've got experience in grant writing, funding, basic translational clinical research, now getting some administrative experience at your new position at UMass. And how long were you at UMass? I was a chair there for 14 years. All right. So that was a good early, mid-career experience. And what prompted the next change?

So things were working well, you've got experience in grant writing, funding, basic translational clinical research, now getting some administrative experience at your new position at UMass. And how long were you at UMass? I was a chair there for 14 years. All right. So that was a good early, mid-career experience. And what prompted the next change?