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Issam Raad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA

G.P. Bodey, Sr. Distinguished Professor and Chairman; Adjunct Professor, UT School of Public Health; and Adjunct Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Medical education has been my passion and primary mission since I joined The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 27 years ago.

If medicine is a calling to practice a caring profession through the application of biomedical science then medical education is the fulfillment of this calling. Medical education perpetuates and disseminates medical knowledge by mentoring trainees who responded to that noble call. Medical education has been my passion and primary mission since I joined The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 27 years ago.