Kim Solez presents Mentoring in pathology: review and case study with observations on Dunbar’s Number on July 14, 2015 - See more at: http://pathology.conferenceseries.com/scientific-program.php?day=2&sid=679&date=2015-07-14#sthash.rpmcJfJD.dpuf

1. Kim Solez, M.D.

2. Four young people associated with me are attending meeting:
Patricia Bacus, Korey Fung, Rongjia Liu, and Sina Marzuoghi

3. Singularity
Course
Students Involved in My Tech&Future of
Medicine Course About Tech Singularity

4. Who Am I?

5. Who Am I?

7. The Banff Schema was first developed
at a meeting of pathologists, clinicians
and surgeons in Banff, Alberta, Canada,
August 2-4, 1991 and has become the
worldwide standard for the interpretation
of transplant biopsies.

8. The Banff Schema was first developed
at a meeting of pathologists, clinicians
and surgeons in Banff, Alberta, Canada,
August 2-4, 1991 and has become the
worldwide standard for the interpretation
of transplant biopsies.

10. 1. Best known renal pathologist. Author of iconic Pathology of
the Kidney. Chair of Pathology at John Hopkins U. from
1969-1988, 103 Journal Publications

11. 1. Immunohistology of the kidney and diabetes research,
Maitre de Recherche de INSERM Paris, then at NIH, 286
Journal Publications.
“Never reject the idea of making a
really big change in your life,
moving to a new country,
learning a new language,
doing something completely
new, making a complete break
with the past”. It seemed like an
odd sort of bravado at the time,
but in fact she did eventually do all
those things as her life progressed.

12. Her philosophy can be seen in many of my activities:
1. The Banff Classification of
Transplant Pathology
2. The course on Technology and the
Future of Medicine
3. The concept of Medicine Writ
Large
4. The Banff Classification of Tissue
Engineering Pathology
5. The interest in Dunbar’s number

13. She would collect all the men’s
ties, as she did in parties in Paris
in the 1970’s, so in the end there
would not be a single man
wearing a tie!

15.  A mix of friends, family, medical leaders, celebrities,
authors, scientists, musicians, artists who I spend
time thinking about and who influenced me, a list of
150 edited through feedback from students working
with me some of whom are at this meeting.
 There are 42 physicians on the list, 3 medical
students, 19 musicians, 8 writers, and 2 famous
scientists. Most of the list is a subset of my Facebook
friend list. Facebook friends on the list were asked
for permission for us to publish the list. No one
refused.

16.  The list was fine tuned by the students over two
weeks a year ago in July, 2014.
 The list is comfortable, stable a year later. We see no
reason to change it.
 I helped found a new medical school in Nepal devoted
to rural health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences
(PAHS). A paper on this work by Liu et al. has been
accepted for publication by JPAHS the journal
associated with that new medical school and is
scheduled to be published this month.

17.  1. Louis Armstrong (From New Orleans!)
 6. Harry Belefonte
 17. Leonard Cohen
 27. Philip K. Dick
 32. Albert Einstein
 36. Richard Feynman
 45. Stephen Hawking
 47. Robert Heinlein
 48. Jimi Hendrix
 55. Elton John
 56. Janis Joplin

18.  59. Kevin Kelly
 63. Ray Kurzweil
 69. Wynton Marsalis
 71. Herman Melville
 80. Willie Nelson
 124. Britney Spears
 125. Cat Stevens
 126. Rod Stewart
 137. Tom Waits
 147. Neil Young

19.  One can criticize the use of the concept of Dunbar’s
number to describe this mentor/influencer list, as the
list is life-long and Dunbar’s number is usually used to
describe a dynamic count of “right now” significant
friendships. However there are dynamic “right now”
aspects of the mentor list. By definition it does not
contain names of mentors now forgotten. It is a list of
lifelong mentors that seem significant right now.
 The number of 150 could be accidental. Further similar
analyses and analyses of large groups of mentors will
have to be carried out to determine whether the
observations here can be generalized.

20.  A Twitter study validating Dunbar’s number Goncalves,
Perra, and Vespignani (2011) PLoS One. 6(8):e22656
analyzed data from 1.7 million individuals, validated
the 150 number. It would be interesting to find a way
to analyze number of mentors/influencers in a similar
large number of people.
 The listing of mentors is a valuable alterative way of
looking at history, with its own flavor of richness. It is a
kind of compression of history, or alternative form of
analysis of history, and of human careers.