2020年9月23日

您什么时候加入Uthealth？是什么把你带到这里？
1987年，我姐姐就读于UTHSC盟军健康科学学校，从事营养学位。她有一个在医学院医学遗传学的儿科分部的朋友。有一个员工助理的开幕式，我得到了这个职位。

在这里告诉我您的工作历史。
我在儿科医学遗传学部门的UT度过了头四年，首先是Drs。朱利安·威廉姆斯，亚当·乔纳斯和罗伯特·格里尔。然后，我在部门主任办公室（在旧的Shriner医院大楼）工作。比尔·霍顿（Bill Horton）和雅克·赫希特（Jacqui Hecht）。1991年，我与杰里·埃利斯（Jerry Ellis）一起转移到了健康科学中心的金融服务办公室，在那里待了四年。1995年，我参加了“休假”，在当地医院工作了大约16个月，我发现我真的很想回到UT。

Katherine Thatcher, the previous Director of Management Services in the Office of Management and Administrative Services, encouraged me to come back to the Medical School in 1996. I’ve been in the Office of Administration, now Office of Administration and Faculty Affairs, ever since.

您为在医学院取得成就最骄傲的是什么？
热带风暴艾莉森恢复和重建可能是我的清单上的首先。在许多情况下，我了解到水不是我们的朋友，但这是我职业生涯中发生的最毁灭性的事件。Our medical school building was totally dead for a month after June 8, 2001. I received a call that Saturday morning about 4:30 a.m. from Work Control in which I was told that the Medical School’s basement had flooded and the ground floor was covered in 10-12 inches of water. I called Rick Gaines, the associate dean for management at the time, and that was the first of many phone calls I had that day contacting department chairs and DMOs to let them know of the horrible conditions that were to ensue in the coming days in the MSB and John Freeman Building next door. We lost 4,700 animals in the basement, millions of dollars in research in freezers, refrigerators, computers, and an NMR and MRI. In the next month, I had to find temporary offices for about 85 people. We borrowed space from departments in the building in MSI, UCT, OCB, and JJL. Many people worked from home for the next month. Some researchers found space at Rice, Baylor, or MD Anderson. The MSB looked as though it was on “life support” for many months while air handlers as big as box cars circled the building, and five-foot diameter hoses were connected to the building and pushed cool air into the building. It took about five years to finish all of the medical school building’s TSA projects, including rebuilding the basement to hold new classrooms, PBL rooms, morgue, Gross Anatomy, a Surgical and Clinical Skills Center, ground floor administrative offices, and a Learning Resource Center.

因为我们失去了英航的动物保健设施sement and saw the need for more research space, this was an opportunity to build a new building next to MSB to replace the John Freeman Building, which was only two stories and held small classrooms and the Bookstore on the first floor. And then, we had three departments or divisions of research space on the second floor, including Microbiology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Internal Medicine Infectious Disease. To clear the building, we often had to take over department conference rooms to hold third- and fourth-year classes until the basement classrooms were ready. MSB 1.006 became the LRC, so students could study on site for the next two years. I had to create a plan to move enough research space around to move Microbiology and Pediatric and Internal Medicine Infectious Diseases into the MSB, so the building could be torn down. I not only had to “sell” this plan to the (acting) dean, but I also had to sell the plan to HSC leadership, department chairs, and investigators. That may have been more stressful than Tropical Storm Allison! We also had to take lab space in MSB to use for animal care. We used about 7,000 SF of lab space to house animals while the Medical School Expansion Building was being built.

We opened the Research Replacement Facility (now known at the Medical School Expansion Building) at the end of 2007 with a beautiful, new animal care facility and four research floors. Having the opportunity to help plan, design, and implement the MSE was the experience of a lifetime! Dr. Jim Willerson, president of the Health Science Center at the time of Tropical Storm Allison, said on the Sunday after the storm that this was a golden opportunity to allow the Medical School to come back even better than it was before. We didn’t waste that opportunity. I am humbled and honored to have actively participated in these projects from start to finish, and I am very proud of what we accomplished!

我的高级工作协调员格雷格·多尔西（Greg Dorsey）和我继续与设施和项目管理团队紧密合作，以提高我们工作的建筑物的质量，以便研究，教育和临床活动无缝运行。beplay苹果手机能用吗这些人都满足学校的需求，并努力完成他们的活动和项目，而我们的研究人员，学生，员工和动物的干扰和干扰尽可能小。beplay苹果手机能用吗

我还必须吹嘘会议运营办公室。瓦莱丽·布坎南（Valerie Buchanan）和她的员工体现了出色的客户服务的本质。当我开始监督20年前的会议操作时，他们正在手工安排所有课程！他们在学生的盒式录音带上录制并重复了演讲，然后在VHR，然后是DVD上录制了演讲，现在，这些课程是在线流式传输和录制的。瓦莱丽（Valerie）领导下的会议运营已实施了一个在线调度系统，大学中的任何人都可以访问该系统。他们的网站上充满了有关我们的教室和礼堂，政策以及我们各种教室的图片的宝贵信息。瓦莱丽（Valerie）领导了整个大学的计划软件项目，她在实现这一过程方面非常宝贵。这些人遭受了哈维飓风和其他个人损失的家庭悲剧，他们互相拥抱，并保持了办公室的工作，无缝地向前迈进。

自您第一次加入以来，医学院有何变化？
1987年，当我开始从事儿科时，我的世界是满足医学遗传学教师和教职员工的需求。我已经看过教师，椅子，院长和HSC执行领导来来往往。我已经看到建筑物下降了，建筑物上升了。甚至我们的名字也改变了！但是我认为也许我的变化和成长比学校还要多！

自1996年以来，我已经任职七个院长，包括临时或代理院长。每位院长都面临着新的挑战和优先事项。热带风暴艾莉森（Allison）炸毁，并增加了2001年及以后医学院的挑战和优先事项。

医学院一直重视教育，研究和临床服务的三个优先事项。beplay苹果手机能用吗麦戈文医学院肯定在这三个方面都成长和发展。我们与其他大学竞争最好的学生，最聪明的学生，研究人员，临床医生，我们拥有一些最好，最聪明的管理员和员工，以帮助满足这些团体的需求。beplay苹果手机能用吗与刚开始时，我们现在与其他机构和其他HSC学校合作。外围beplay我们鼓励其他人更多地成功并取得成功，以便他们在工作中成长并承担新的挑战和机遇。

我们的诊所已经扩展并成长为大休斯顿地区的社区，自从我开始执政以来，我们的教职员工，尤其是我们的临床医生增加了一倍以上。我们的医生是最好的！

当然，建筑物最大的改变了。我们仍然没有足够的空间 - 办公室，研究甚至教室空间进行小组活动。beplay苹果手机能用吗空间绝对是最终的边界，满足我们新的和/或非常成功的研究人员的需求将永远是一个挑战。beplay苹果手机能用吗

今天，Covid-19使我们的世界颠倒了专业和个人。为了使医学院的任务前进，我们都必须以不同的方式做事，无论是我们看到患者，培训学生还是与他人互动以完成我们的日常任务和目标的方式。我们具有韧性，我们将在经历这一大流行方面更加强大，更明智。

Why have you stayed?
我喜欢我的工作！我喜欢每天与之合作的人，无论是在办公室，会议运营，设施，项目管理，院长办公室，教职员工，员工，安全，管家还是学生中的人。我喜欢寻找空间的挑战，几乎不断解决问题，找到解决方案，并帮助人们在工作和工作空间中找到快乐。我喜欢让人们开心！

我感谢Uthealth关心员工的事实，并正在寻找鼓励我们在工作和家庭生活中保持真正的工作/生活平衡的方法。

当您不上班时，如何花时间？
自四月以来，我和我的丈夫马克（Mark）大部分时间都有机会在家里共同努力，我们很高兴成为办公室合作伙伴！我们开始在周末大流行期间与女儿和她的丈夫一起玩墨西哥火车多米诺骨牌。我儿子的家人住在马里兰州，我们喜欢在网上与三个孙子一起访问，因为我们无法经常去。我喜欢烹饪和阅读食谱书，以烹饪新的烹饪方式。我们参与了我们的教会，在大流行之前，我一直在休斯顿第一浸信会教堂的合唱团唱歌，我期待很快再次参与教堂活动。