Dr. Behfar Ehdaie

A lot of our grants, what we write in clinical trials, we do a 20-patient study, prove that we could randomize patients, make sure patients understand the trial, and we worked out our multi-center group of institutions that we all communicate with one another.

I think the last part of this, and I tell this as a role as a mentor now, of course, when you came as a fellow, we were colleagues. I don't consider you my mentee. You came in fully credentialed, excellent surgeon, and I think we worked together on cases and actually discussed things all of the time in the OR. But I feel like as my hair has gotten whiter, I'm expected to be more of a mentor now.

I think the last part of this, and I tell this as a role as a mentor now, of course, when you came as a fellow, we were colleagues. I don't consider you my mentee. You came in fully credentialed, excellent surgeon, and I think we worked together on cases and actually discussed things all of the time in the OR. But I feel like as my hair has gotten whiter, I'm expected to be more of a mentor now.

I think the last part of this, and I tell this as a role as a mentor now, of course, when you came as a fellow, we were colleagues. I don't consider you my mentee. You came in fully credentialed, excellent surgeon, and I think we worked together on cases and actually discussed things all of the time in the OR. But I feel like as my hair has gotten whiter, I'm expected to be more of a mentor now.

And so in that role, the question I'm often asked is, how do I get my trial career up and running early? You know, and so I say it's actually very similar to becoming, you know, a expert in your own field. And the way you do that, I've always said, is you need to be considered an expert by not the International Academy of Surgeons, but really locally.

And so in that role, the question I'm often asked is, how do I get my trial career up and running early? You know, and so I say it's actually very similar to becoming, you know, a expert in your own field. And the way you do that, I've always said, is you need to be considered an expert by not the International Academy of Surgeons, but really locally.

And so in that role, the question I'm often asked is, how do I get my trial career up and running early? You know, and so I say it's actually very similar to becoming, you know, a expert in your own field. And the way you do that, I've always said, is you need to be considered an expert by not the International Academy of Surgeons, but really locally.

When the person who vacuums the floor of your office building, if they have a family member that has prostate cancer and they come to you and they say, can you take care of them? You've actually turned out to be a local expert at that moment because they chose you. So how do you become a local expert, which is critical? And the way I think you do that is you go to cooperative groups.

When the person who vacuums the floor of your office building, if they have a family member that has prostate cancer and they come to you and they say, can you take care of them? You've actually turned out to be a local expert at that moment because they chose you. So how do you become a local expert, which is critical? And the way I think you do that is you go to cooperative groups.

When the person who vacuums the floor of your office building, if they have a family member that has prostate cancer and they come to you and they say, can you take care of them? You've actually turned out to be a local expert at that moment because they chose you. So how do you become a local expert, which is critical? And the way I think you do that is you go to cooperative groups.

Go to your, find your cooperative group. Those meetings are open. They're an incredible collection of individuals dedicated to patient care. This is not a meeting where everyone's presenting their paper of the week. You know, these are people really there for their patients thinking about trials. And go and bring the trial in your disease area.

Go to your, find your cooperative group. Those meetings are open. They're an incredible collection of individuals dedicated to patient care. This is not a meeting where everyone's presenting their paper of the week. You know, these are people really there for their patients thinking about trials. And go and bring the trial in your disease area.

Go to your, find your cooperative group. Those meetings are open. They're an incredible collection of individuals dedicated to patient care. This is not a meeting where everyone's presenting their paper of the week. You know, these are people really there for their patients thinking about trials. And go and bring the trial in your disease area.

I had a fellow once who was really interested in kidney cancer and he goes, how do I become a kidney cancer expert in my institution when I'm going and there's five, six other people doing kidney cancer surgery? Well, I said, go to the cooperative group, bring a high-risk kidney cancer protocol to your institution. You don't need to be the one who wrote the protocol.

I had a fellow once who was really interested in kidney cancer and he goes, how do I become a kidney cancer expert in my institution when I'm going and there's five, six other people doing kidney cancer surgery? Well, I said, go to the cooperative group, bring a high-risk kidney cancer protocol to your institution. You don't need to be the one who wrote the protocol.

I had a fellow once who was really interested in kidney cancer and he goes, how do I become a kidney cancer expert in my institution when I'm going and there's five, six other people doing kidney cancer surgery? Well, I said, go to the cooperative group, bring a high-risk kidney cancer protocol to your institution. You don't need to be the one who wrote the protocol.

You just have to be the site PI, which the overall PI would love for you to do that. The protocol is written. You just need to enroll patients. And now you can talk about your trial at your institution. You'll have patients directed to you. who are eligible for that trial.

You just have to be the site PI, which the overall PI would love for you to do that. The protocol is written. You just need to enroll patients. And now you can talk about your trial at your institution. You'll have patients directed to you. who are eligible for that trial.

You just have to be the site PI, which the overall PI would love for you to do that. The protocol is written. You just need to enroll patients. And now you can talk about your trial at your institution. You'll have patients directed to you. who are eligible for that trial.

So as a young attending, now you're seeing every high-risk kidney cancer patient because your institution says he's got the trial or she's got the trial and we need to get them into your study. And right there, as soon as you get that first traction, you understand how a trial works.