Soderquist Professor in the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Bernal-Mizrachi received his medical degree in 1989 from the Universidad del Valle Medical School in Cali, Colombia, and completed a residency in internal medicine there. He came to the United States in 1993 for additional residency training in internal medicine at the University of Miami, followed by a three-year fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined Washington University faculty in 1999 and held the academic titles of assistant professor of medicine and assistant professor of cell biology from 2004 until he came to Michigan last summer to assume the Soderquist Professorship.