Tara Lagu: Quitting The Lab To Save The World
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2015
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tara Lagu's passion for beating her high school rival in the science fair turns into an unusual medical career. Tara Lagu, M.D., M.P.H, is an Academic Hospitalist in the Center for Quality of Care Research and Department of Medicine at Baystate Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine. After graduating with her MD/MPH from the Yale University School of Medicine, she completed a General Internal Medicine Residency at Brown. From 2005-2008, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where she developed her research interest in the quality of health care in the United States. Currently, her work is focused on improving quality and reducing costs of health care in the United States and, in particular, improving access to care for patients with disabilities. She spends much of her free time thinking about, growing, talking about, taking pictures of, and eating heirloom tomatoes. Her favorite variety is Cherokee Purple.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is that all your scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.1 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:53.1 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:56.2 | This week's story is from Tara Lagoo. |
| 0:58.6 | It was recorded in April 2015 at Design Exchange in Toronto, Ontario, |
| 1:03.1 | as part of the Springer Storyteller series. |
| 1:22.6 | So, in the gay community, there's this kind of popular idea, the idea of a root, that is the root cause of your homosexuality. This never actually really appealed to me because I was pretty clear early on that the root cause of my homosexuality had something to do with the popularity of Terrycloth short sets in the 1980s, |
| 1:37.3 | and a haircut called the Dorothy Hamill. |
| 1:42.3 | But when I started thinking about telling my life in science story, |
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