Fragile X research icon empowers hundreds of women as a dedicated mentor
(World News Brazil)

If mentoring is a lot like gardening - where seeding, nurturing and growth are crucial for success - then Randi Hagerman, medical director of the UC Davis MIND Institute, has one heck of a green thumb. Randi Hagerman is a professor, endowed chair in fragile X research and pediatrician at the UC Davis MIND Institute The pediatrician has mentored hundreds of people over her decades-long career, most of them women. `I think it`s really important to encourage women in medicine,` said Hagerman, an internationally recognized expert on the genetic condition fragile X syndrome and director of the Fragile X Research and Treatment Center at the MIND Institute. Medicine is a great career for women...