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Congratulations to Jason M. Nagata, the Early Career Investigator for November 2022. He is a pediatrician in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His career pathway to research on adolescent activity, screen use, nutrition, and eating disorders was fueled by excellent mentors and by recognizing gaps in care that he could work to address. Prior to medical school, he focused on global hunger and malnutrition in Africa with the World Health Organization, and so had already demonstrated an interest in nutrition. In his ECI Biocommentary, Dr. Nagata offers some important lessons from his experiences that have led him to find great passion and personal fulfillment in his clinical and research work. In an article in this issue, he and colleagues examine sociodemographic correlates of problematic screen use in a diverse early adolescent population. Boys had higher problematic video game use whereas girls had higher social media and mobile phone use. Sociodemographic differences in adolescents relate to problematic screen use and should be taken into account in counseling by pediatricians. (Photo: Susan Merrell). See pages 1205 and 1443