Welcome to this edition of the Dean's Video Newsletter. As many of you know I'll
be moving on to a new position with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on
October the 1st so this will be my last video newsletter to all of you. And
what I'd like to say at the outset of this is a huge thank you to a great
number of individuals. The problem is that if I try and go through all of
those individuals it's going to be impossible and I will miss so many of
you that have been valuable to moving this forward. So, I think what I'd rather
do is spend a couple of minutes and think about the things that we should be
celebrating as a School that we've achieved, not just in the last eight
years, but really in the last couple of decades under the variety of leaderships
that we've had. And then perhaps maybe just a minute or two about where things
are moving, as we go forward because I really do believe that the School is
extremely well positioned now to move forward. I think we're moving into a very
interesting time that will be challenging but you know the old saying,
"may you be blessed to live in challenging times,." So, first off the thank-yous to
everybody. This has been undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable experiences of my
life to do this. It's been a great challenge, and I've been surrounded by
people who are consummate professionals in moving this forward. So whether you
think about what we've been able to do in creating a new curriculum, what we're
doing and creating the overarching new curriculum that looks at
competency-based from day one right through to today you retire, to the
changes on the financial programming that we've done, the list goes on and on.
If you think about the number of individuals that we've recruited as new
faculty, all of whom have peer-reviewed funding, that's an amazing track record
as we go forward. Think about the new facilities that we've put together, these
facilities would not have happened without an incredible amount of help
from everybody coming to the table. So whether it's the new research facilities
that are going to start going up this fall, the building for family medicine
public health, which is functioning beautifully, or even the new laboratories
that we've built. Every one of those has taken us as a team to move it forward. So,
while a lot of the things that we're looking at and a lot of people are
talking to me right now and saying you've done a wonderful job for all of
it. But it actually isn't that I've done a wonderful job, it's actually as a team
we've done this, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
From that vantage this is my chance to say thank you to everybody. The second thank you I
really want to say is to the alumni, and how much work that you've done to
support us as we go forward, and i know that we're going to be asking you to
support us a great deal more as we start our new buildings and facilities coming
along. It's the next evolution of the School. You are all immensely proud of
the School - you tell me that every time we meet - so this is our opportunity to
take that to another level even further. So again thank you to all of you folks.
There are some challenging times coming forward, and those those times aren't
going to be different no matter where you are in this country. We cannot
continue to exist in the fiscal environment that we do, all you have to
do is look at our national debt, or look at our provincial debt structure, and
it'll be immediately clear that we are going to have to start to watch
carefully how costs are escalated as we run academic institutions. That's
going to present challenges, but again challenges are nothing more than
opportunities to really look at how we do things better and more efficiently
over time. Over the course of the last six months
this school has collectively been working very hard to come up with new
approaches to running the fiscal ship here. But it's not all about money.
If that's all that this was then it would just be an administrative job. The
things that are coming forward are really innovative with how do we teach?
how do we work within a distributed system? What is science going to
look like as we move forward and how do we really bring the new generation of
researchers fully on stream into health research in Canada? And I think that's
going to be a really interesting challenge. Which then brings me to the
last little piece, and it's a question that I get asked a great deal and that
is, "so why take on this new job at the CIHR now, with all the things that are
happening going forward?" And I can tell you it was not without a great deal
of discussion with my family, with colleagues, and long hours of thinking
about it. But here's what it comes down to. First off I love this School and I
love this University. This was never about leaving here. The question becomes,
what can I do to help for the next generation
of scientists and researchers to have the kind of career that I've had? So that
when I started off in my residency training, and made it very clear that I
was not interested in becoming a clinician-scientist. Many of my
colleagues will remember that. So how do you move from not being interested in
being a clinician-scientist, to leading Canada's health care research
organization in a career? It's because the opportunities were there and
it's because individuals supported me as mentors, it's because I saw what an
exciting career could be and I loved every minute of it, and still do to this
day. And that's been a gift that's been given to me by the MRC at the time when
it was CIHR as it evolved to. Other funding organizations,
whether it be national or international, mentors people that I looked up to, other
researchers that would come to the lab and say, can I help out if I've got a
problem. I have enjoyed all of that as my career, and quite simply as I
tell to all of our students when I get a chance to talk to them about leadership,
it's about giving back. It's about taking the time to say, okay I've had that
experience, I understand what the issues and the problems are, I come from a
strong research community, and so how do we help to move things forward in this
country from a research point of view? And I say "we" because as just as we did
here, it will be a team effort, and so my challenge and going into the new
position is how do I help move research forward in Canada so that it is seen as
the exciting career and life that I've had, and that it can be supported. And so
that's the reason. I thought that there were things that I could do to help in
this country that would benefit the next generation of researchers to have the
kind of career that I've had and it's as simple as that.
There's no other reason. So how do I get to all of that? It's because of what I
talked about in the beginning. I've had such a great experience here over the
last twenty eight years but in particular the last eight years in my
role as Dean. This is undoubtedly the best job in Canada and I'm leaving it at
a time when I can move on to help, not because I want to leave.
So with that, I hope to see many of you again in the future
and again thank you to all of you for this, and I wish you nothing but the best.
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