Mike Asbach is the first physician associate on this show, and he set the bar high. He's the Associate Director of Interventional Psychiatry at DENT Neurologic Institute in Buffalo, where he leads a team of 17 prescribers delivering TMS, ketamine, and Spravato. He's also the AAPA's liaison to the American Psychiatric Association, a professor, a medical writer, a podcast host, and a captain in the Army Reserve.

Here's what surprised me: he hates networking. A perfect night for Mike is a good book and a quiet porch. Nearly everything on that resume exists because he overrode that preference, introduced himself to conference speakers, sat through the mixers, and kept showing up. It's how we met, at a schizophrenia ad board in Arizona. A two-minute conversation with him on his way to the airport put biotech consulting on my radar, and I've sinc ...