@article{97a603cc4fe54183b292f6d75375fc2d,
title = "DDS Profile: Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD",
author = "Merchant, {Juanita L.}",
note = "Funding Information: In my “gut,” I now felt that I could do research and that it was worth pursuing NIH funding and eventually applying for tenure-track positions. My confidence was further boosted by receiving a four-year career development research grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to working in the GI peptide/hormone field, I eventually met Tachi and Chung Owyang, who would become my future bosses, sponsors, and mentors, as well as other Michigan GI faculty at a somatostatin peptide meeting in Montreal, Canada. I didn{\textquoteright}t ever think that I would move to the Midwest, and when Tachi proposed that I look at the University of Michigan for my first faculty position, I laughed and told him that I was from LA and that Michigan was the “great fly-over.” Within three years I had to eat those words when Tachi successfully recruited me to Michigan. ",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1007/s10620-022-07725-z",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "68",
pages = "16--20",
journal = "Digestive diseases and sciences",
issn = "0163-2116",
publisher = "Plenum Publishers",
number = "1",
}