On becoming a clinician-scientist: The importance of mentorship and role models.

Brent graduated from medicine (with distinction) from the University of Alberta in 1984, and subsequently trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and in Critical Care at the University of Manitoba. He later did a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular/cellular biology at National Jewish Center (Denver, CO). His research interests now focus on examining diseases of the critically ill using metabolomics. When he finished training in 1996, Brent was recruited to the University of Calgary in Critical Care Medicine and is now a Professor of Medicine. In Calgary, he helped to establish the graduate program in Critical Care Medicine and is involved in training clinicians, scientists and clinician-scientists. Brent was President of Canadian Society for Clinical Investigators in 2011-2013 and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Investigative Medicine for over 10 years.