Seeing someone blossom
A great colleague and friend is moving on to bigger and better things next week.
I was lucky enough to meet Glen when he was still an undergraduate student — he was experimenting with building prototype clinical decision support tools around the time I was receiving a grant to build a standards-based CDSS tool. He was keen, but was I noticed was his desire to make a difference with what he spent his time on. It was not long after that that I managed to get Glen to join our little EGADSS research team as a Masters student. He was instrumental throughout that work and developed some excellent skills, which only added to his fantastic approach to healthcare IT.
After our research project ended and Glen moved on to other work, we stayed in touch.
Two years ago I had the opportunity to recruit Glen back to work with me on some clinical architecture projects for Vancouver Island Health Authority. He has become a true colleague. Together, we have worked with VIHA to establish a greater understanding for the importance of clinical design, data design / standards, and process improvement. He helped to shape – and increase people’s understanding – of the clinical information architecture principles among other things.
It has been wonderful for me to work with Glen, not once, but twice. I have learned much from him over the years and hope that I will find ways to continue to collaborate with him.
Glen,
I want to wish you all the best in this next opportunity, one that I think is an important step for you and one I fully support. Make sure we stay in touch so our kids can play at the playground by the lake.
– Morgan
PS – For people reading this, who might be interested in applying for Glen’s position at VIHA, one piece of advice comes to mind. When applying for a job, it helps to be better than the person before you. This might be hard to do, filling Glen’s shoes. I suggest you think about ways of getting creative (like below).
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