Thirty years ago Juan C. Kaski moved almost 7000 miles to work on his research: Emma Wilkinson talks to him about finding your feet in a new country

摘要

There is a multitude of reasons why a young cardiologist might move to work abroad. Some want to experience a different culture, for others it is a specific institution which attracts them. For Prof. Juan Carlos Kaski, head of the Cardiovascular Sciences Research Centre at St George's, University of London it was a very single-minded determination to work with a world leader on a very specific area of research.The young Argentinian had trained in Buenos Aires and was working as a cardiology registrar and investigating the role of coronary artery spasm in angina. Realising that he would not get far enough with this emerging area of research in his home country he wrote to the Italian cardiologist Prof. Attilio Maseri at the University of Pisa who was carrying out exciting research, asking to join his group.