You Were Rejected - Now What? with Dr. Stanley Schwartz

Stanley Schwartz MD, PhD, is the UB Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; and serves as the Division Chief of Allergy-Immunology-Rheumatology at Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Before pursuing medicine, Dr Schwartz obtained a PhD in Cellular Biology from Univ of California San Diego.  He then completed his Medical school and Residency in Pediatrics from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr Schwartz pursued a Fellowship in Clinical Immunology from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is a passionate researcher and has published over 150 journal articles, case reports and many book chapters. We will all experience rejection at some point. Your grades might not be high enough. Funding for research may decrease. You might not get into the fellowship you want. The question is what will you do after the rejection? Today, Dr. Stanley Schwartz shares, “if the opportunity you were seeking is not available, what are the other opportunities you hadn’t considered?” Maybe you need to move in a different direction. Think outside the box. Talk it over with your mentors. They can help you see the bigger picture and help you make the most of whatever hand you were dealt. Pearls of Wisdom: 1. Success relates closely to gratification and this can be achieved in several ways: helping someone in their time of need, achieving peer recognition, being a mentor to someone and seeing them succeed. 2. You will experience rejections. Develop a thick skin, think outside the box, and see the big picture. Know that mentors can help! 3. Successful people are team players and collaborative. It sharing the workload and collaborating with colleagues.