Dr. Rob Bart

And so I've spent a lot of my life on sailboats.

Yeah, I mean, so I graduated from high school in Hawaii in 1979 at Punahou School.

And I probably said this to you, that it's hard to consider yourself successful

when one of your high school classmates was the president of the United States.

And so, um, Barry or, or, or Barack Obama was my classmate in high school.

Um, and, and he was one of a number of, of memorable people.

There were just over 400 people in my graduating class.

He was a remarkable person then.

Um, but still no one actually predicts that someone in your high school class, the president of the United States, but, um,

I think that when he became a senator in Illinois, it started to become clear that his aspirations and his opportunities were going to become much greater than that.

There was.

So, you know, I actually...

I was actually thinking about getting a PhD, and I was very interested in research.

I knew how hard my father worked as a physician, and I just couldn't see doing that.

And then I spent a summer actually working in a hospital laboratory.

I was just washing glassware and things of that nature.

But one of the pathologists who worked in that lab knew my father, and he took me to lunch one day, and he said, you know, you can do research if you're a physician also.

And I hadn't thought about that.

And he said, you can do research as a physician.

He said, physicians who do research tend to get paid better than PhDs doing research.