Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Rochester Medical Center

one of the strongest features of the Department
of Pediatrics … is the breadth and depth of the
specialties available to the children of the region
“ It was something exciting and new and couldn’t have been
studied the way we do now even five years ago,” she said.
But she chose pediatrics for very simple, pure reasons:
“ I really enjoy being with children. I enjoy their candor.
I enjoy their humor even when they aren’t trying to be
humorous. I enjoy that when I make a difference,
I potentially made a difference for a lifetime and for a whole
family.”
Schor, who is 51, has targeted pediatric research as an area where
she hopes to make major changes. The department also is ready
to ratchet up its research enterprise.
“ There is a perfect meshing between what the department
wants to do and what the senior leadership thinks needs to
be done,” she said. She noted that pediatrics already has
many of the needed resources, including faculty and clinical
enterprise.
Schor is re-establishing her laboratory at the Medical Center
and she plans to expand the participation and
presence of researchers focused on pediatrics and developmental
biology in research centers across the University.
She also sees opportunities to expand the department’s research
and educational base by creating collaborations with basic
and clinical scientists throughout the University and
at the technological industries in the greater Rochester area.
“ The idea, which has been a thread throughout my career,
is the notion that the clinical and the research enterprises
feed off one another, inform one another,” Schor said. “Why
would you do research at a hospital instead of doing it
at a think tank unless you wanted constantly to be fueled by
the problems that arise in a clinical enterprise The idea of
bringing it all together … in a way that maintains and, in
fact, enhances the clinical operations is exciting.”
what ties Schor’s
very diverse agenda
together is her
leadership and
teaching styles and
her passion for both
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