{"id":1122,"date":"2016-08-01T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/qa-reflections-on-a-storied-career\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T12:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T20:14:05","slug":"qa-reflections-on-a-storied-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/qa-reflections-on-a-storied-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Reflections on a storied career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Press Release<\/span>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n      <h1>Q&#038;A: Reflections on a storied career<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n    \n          <div class=\"meta\">\n               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Leslie Weiner, MD, retired June 30 after spending 41 years at the university, including 23 as chair of the Department of Neurology. The self-described \u201cneurologist, physician, scientist and teacher\u201d recently shared how the school has changed and his plans after retirement. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<h3>How has the Keck School changed since you\u2019ve been here?<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s a totally different place. When I came here in 1975, the university hospital didn\u2019t exist and outpatient practice didn\u2019t exist. When I took over as chairman, I started a faculty practice with Don Skinner (MD) in urology, Art Donovan (MD) in surgery and Dan Mishell (MD), who recently died, in obstetrics and gynecology. These were prominent achievements in 1979.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell me about your research career. What projects were most exciting for you?<\/h3>\n<p>I developed a vaccine for multiple sclerosis (MS), which we tested and failed. That was a six- or seven-year endeavor, and that was a very exciting time \u2014 but disappointing. We\u2019ve been involved in a number of clinical trials for MS in recent years, which have been fun. My biggest clinical feeling is that in 1997, there were no treatments for MS. Now there are 14 licensed treatments, so MS is a treatable disease in the sense that you can prevent progression and attacks and so forth. It\u2019s not a cure, but it\u2019s such a different world for those patients now.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us about why you chose to retire now.<\/h3>\n<p>I just turned 80, and it was time for me to go. It\u2019s been a good 41 years. But I\u2019m in good health and there are lots of things I would like to do. I tell everybody that the reason I\u2019m retiring is so I can watch Netflix all day. My wife originally was not in favor of this, but she\u2019s warmed to the idea.<\/p>\n<h3>What are you planning on watching?<\/h3>\n<p>We usually hook onto something and then power-watch it. I just finished watching Murdoch Mysteries, I enjoy Outlander and I was watching Columbo last night. But we like foreign films, too. We spend my birthday in March in Paris every year but I don\u2019t speak French, so I need subtitles.<\/p>\n<h3>How would you like to be remembered?<\/h3>\n<p>I don\u2019t care how I\u2019m remembered. Well, I have an endowed chair with my name on it, the neurology clinic has my name on it. I think that you\u2019re always remembered by your students and your patients, but I just don\u2019t care. My feeling is that you do the best if you\u2019re remembered as someone who took care of patients and taught.<\/p>\n<h3> Do you have any advice to share from your career?<\/h3>\n<p>I think the only advice I have is for the clinicians. They have to recognize their individual patients and their patients\u2019 needs, and they frequently don\u2019t have time to do that. That\u2019s a difficulty. My only regret is how medicine has changed. I think that it is a technologically driven phenomenon, which has its benefits, but I think that when the clinician sits in front of the computer instead of the computer instead of talking to his patient, that just galls me. \u2026 But overall I\u2019m very proud of neurology and the medical school. This is a good place, it\u2019s got a good heart and I think it\u2019s important that its message has not been lost. It still considers the training of physicians who care for patients as its primary goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[234,61],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-department-of-neurology","tag-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Q&amp;A: Reflections on a storied career<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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