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Making Medicine
Personal

ou have access through
Y Healthnetwork to some of the

world’s best physicians. These
are the doctors who—besides
providing superb patient care—are
doing the research, making the discoveries, and
leading the way into the future of medicine. We
are honored to partner with Yale New Haven
Health, and grateful to Dr. Sandip Mukherjee
and Dr. Jaime Gerber for taking time to have
this conversation. We hope you enjoy getting
to know this dynamic duo.

Healthnetwork: How did you choose to go
into medicine? Jaime Gerber MD, FASNC, FACC, RPVI
Dr. Mukherjee (Dr. M): I didn’t have much of a Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
choice. My grandfather was a country surgeon Fellow, Pearson College
in a poor town in Northern India. When my Medical Director, Executive Health
dad immigrated to the U.S. I was about two, Director, HVC Vascular Laboratory
and I stayed with my grandparents until I was Yale School of Medicine
five or six. These were pre-HIPAA days and I
would make rounds with my grandfather. It’s Sandip Mukherjee, MD, FACC
trite to say I wanted to make a di‡erence, but Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
that’s what I saw him do. And I saw the Fellow, Pearson College
respect he earned. He would walk through the Chief, Complex and Executive Health
town and people would literally stand for him. Executive Medical Director, Oƒce of the Chief
In front of our door we would always have Medical Oƒcer
chickens and eggs and other food. I always Cardiac Director, The Aortic Institute
felt the relevance and importance of what Yale School of Medicine
he did. I really never even thought about
another calling.
Dr. Gerber (Dr. G): My story isn’t nearly as
exciting. In college I was an EMT riding with But seriously, I came to Yale New Haven in
the ambulance company through a voluntary the ’Š‹s because I appreciate the teaching
and community supported program. My environment here and how the institution puts
interest in medicine grew organically the physician and the patient at the center of
from there. the medical experience. I was an attending
physician in the cardiology department, and
Healthnetwork: The two of you have been Sandip was the first echocardiography fellow.
working together for a long time. How did He was about to go to a hospital in California,
that start? but I bought him lunch from a Chinese food
Dr. G: We met at the beginning of the last truck and convinced him to stay. We’ve been
Ice Age running from the velociraptors. working together now for Ž‹-some years.

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