Thoughts

Leadership, Thoughts

From Dean to Campus Director: Reflections on a Different Kind of Leadership

It has been almost a year since I moved from leading a medical faculty as Dean to taking responsibility for a university campus as Campus Director. Both are senior leadership positions within the university, but the transition has shown me that they require quite different perspectives. The difference is not simply one of scale. A Dean primarily leads an academic… Continue reading From Dean to Campus Director: Reflections on a Different Kind of Leadership

Technology, Thoughts

The Whole Patient: What AI in Medicine Risks Forgetting

A short video has been circulating in our circles: two people stood before a machine that renders the human body in shimmering cross-section. Waveforms, a rotating skull, the nervous system laid bare. It is genuinely impressive technology. It is also, I think, a good place to pause and ask a question that medicine has not answered well in two hundred… Continue reading The Whole Patient: What AI in Medicine Risks Forgetting

Leadership, Thoughts

A Whisper to Myself, It is not about you.

The institution was here before you arrived,and it will remain long after you have gone.Its purpose is greater than any title,its mission deeper than any ambition,its journey longer than any single season of leadership. You are not its owner.You are merely its custodian. Others came before you,carrying the same responsibilities,facing the same uncertainties,leaving behind their labour, their wisdom,their successes and… Continue reading A Whisper to Myself, It is not about you.