#Microsoft730
It seems only like yesterday that I was penning this blogpost titled #Microsoft365, and at the same time seems like an amazing journey of personal discovery, building on my previous knowledge; augmenting it with the experiences and interactions that I’ve had over the last 365 days.
It’s been that ‘connecting the dots’ year for me, as I moved back into something that I have always been passionate about — improving healthcare outcomes. Building on the learnings from my startup days working in population health back in India, growing up with doctors, and then being a disappointment (almost) to the family for not pursuing medicine — to completing the circle now from a different side, it’s been a lot of dots that ended up connecting themselves.
Having always heard that People and Purpose can go a long way in defining how you perceive what you do, this year I have been extremely lucky to have guides, mentors and believers (people who believe in you, despite the formal framework) over the course of my journey — supporting me, nudging me, giving constructive feedback, as they helped me embark on what has been an exponential learning curve.
Working in the middle of commercial, engineering and research ecosystems around the healthcare and life sciences domain has been more than that I could have asked for about a year ago. Not only has it been a journey of understanding the technology, but also the regulatory frameworks and ethical implications of the ecosystem, to people-centric understanding of the real-life implications of what we do. Of what we could do. Of the responsibility we share.
Having worked extensively with inventors, doctors, researchers, pharmacists, behaviour psychologists, social scientists, professors, government representatives, engineers, architects — I can’t even begin to comprehend the amazing opportunities that I’ve had while working for Microsoft in Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Working with the Future Health Collective to help decipher the implications of AI in Healthcare, and sharing the roundtable with representatives from the NHS, Moderating a panel discussion between Industry leaders in Healthcare for the Student Med Tech Conference in London, to hacking away to improve neo-natal care at Guys’ Hospital (supported by GSTT), this year has made it real when I could feel the potential impact. And it was a truly humbling experience.
Learning means knowing what you don’t know. And asking for advice and guidance. I would like to thank all the extremely smart people, who have helped me learn through this year.
There has been more than one instance when various people — family, friends, people working in the ecosystem, colleagues from school or college, and in one case even my Professor from INSEAD — have jumped on a Skype call to help me understand ecosystems, people or organizations.
Humbly and from the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank all the believers — for making those connections (and getting me introduced to Microsoft Research), to the ones believing to empower me with responsibility to explore beyond what I thought I could do, and the believers who led me to believe in myself. Thank you.
To another year of an amazing journey, and empowering every person and organization on this planet to achieve more, to the best of my ability.
