My Interview Subjects

1. Dr. Daniel Latt

University of Arizona College of Engineering

Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and of Bio-medical engineering

Undergraduate: Mechanical Engineering from UCSD. PhD in Bioengineering and MD from The University of Pittsburgh. His residency in orthopedic surgery is from McGill University. He is also fellowship-trained in sports medicine (Kaiser, San Diego) and foot and ankle surgery (Duke University). He also has a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Aalborg in Denmark.

Although there is no known information on when Dr. Latt became a professor, he has most likely been doing surgery since after his fellowship (since 2009).

Dr. Latt
UA Banner Website

 The interview was scheduled via phone on February 24 at 11:00 a.m.
2. Dr. Marty Pagel

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of Arizona Cancer Center

B.A. in Chemistry and Biology from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Pagel also has a PhD in Chemistry from UC Berkley.

Dr. Pagel started teaching in 2003 (13 years)

Dr. Pagel
UA Cancer Center Website

My interview is scheduled for February 26 at 12:00 p.m. It is at the UA Cancer Center in his office

Interview questions:

    1.   So you’re an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery (or biomedical engineering). How would you describe your job/position?

    2.   I noticed that you have written a lot of publications. What is your writing process like? How is your paper constructed?

    3.   Are most of your publications that you co-author written in the standard essay-style format? Do you include a lot of graphs and images or is it mostly text?

    4.    What kind of role does social media play in being an assistant professor?

Audience

1.   What kind of audience do you find yourself writing to, both internally and externally? (internal: people in your organization. External: outside of your organization)

2.   What kind of consideration do you give to your audience when constructing your work?

Context

    1.   Has your writing changed or evolved over the course of your career? If yes, how so? Are there any outside influences?

    2.   What kinds of software do you usually use when constructing a publication?

Process             

   1.   What is your process for constructing a publication? Would you start with brainstorming, then the hypothesis, then the research, and then the paper?

    2.   How exactly does the revision process happen?

Is there anything about professional communication that you think students just starting out in the field should know?

Would you be open to answering some follow up questions sometime over the next few weeks?