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moving to arizona

5/4/2013

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I have been at the University of California, San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System since September 2005, almost eight years.  I am grateful for all my friends and mentors that I worked with during that time and I will be sad to leave.

Over Christmas we visited family in Tucson and had a very nice time.  At a Christmas party, I met a lot of University of Arizona faculty and felt "at home". "First Sign"

 My father-in-law died soon after we left and I began to realize quite deeply how important it was for me and my family to be closer to family.

While preparing for a lipedema webinar, I reviewed a powerrpoint presentation by Dr. Marlys Witte from the University of Arizona and her last slide was of a building with the words "Lymphedema Center".  Wow, a lymphedema center at the University of Arizona; wish I could have seen it while I was there.  "Second sign"

I truly started thinking about looking at the University of Arizona but then thought of all I had to do in San Diego and tried to sqash my interest and negate the signs.  On a drive in to work, while I was waiting in a long line of cars going in to the VA, I was actually squashing the signs when I looked up and there was a car in front of me with Arizona license plates.  "Third sign"

At that point I felt the Universe speaking to me and I went directly into work and looked up the Endocrinology Division at the University of Arizona.  I found the Endocrine Division Chief and called him.  You can imagine the conversation.  Hi, I'm Karen Herbst and I work with patients with fat disorders and they have lymph problems and you have a lymmphedema center and, well, do you have any openings?  Well, amazingly they were hiring!  I sent in my curriculum vitae and here we are.

I look forward to taking my research in fat disorders to a new level. 

I will be continuing my research on fat disorders.

EXPECT GREAT THINGS

Karen Herbst

  
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