Salam Aidilfitri, Eid Mubarak!
This year hasn’t been easy. Despite all the promise that a new year brings, we know many countries around the world are still on the frontlines of the COVID-19 battle, while others are managing a wave of local community cases creeping in. It’s been rough, surely.
However, we know you’ll agree with us that there are things to be grateful for. The slow but steady recovery of economies, the positive talks of travel bubbles, to name a few.
More importantly, closer to our hearts, we can be grateful that our friends and families are safe, healthy, and on the way to being vaccinated; that even with the limited pax allowed for social gatherings we can still hear and see them with the click of a button. Something we can take comfort in especially with the Eid celebrations around the corner.
Why diversity is the key to achieving breakthrough results Details Published: 13 April 2021
Dr Mileidy Giraldo, Global Lead for Life Sciences at Lenovo’s HPC and AI Group, shares how being in roles that intersected fields and cultures has helped her and her team achieve various breakthroughs throughout her career; as well as tips for moving towards a more diverse workforce.
I am the child of a single mother, a first-generation college graduate, and Hispanic woman in a STEM field where most of my colleagues are Caucasian, native-English speaking men from families where higher education is a given. While some may think that such circumstances could only mean a life of limited prospects, my triple-minority background has been the key to excelling in multi-disciplinary groups at the intersection of medicine and cutting-edge technology.
The future of health care
It’ll probably be personalised – with a lot of computing involved.
Dr Deborah Devis discusses precision health care with Dr Mileidy Giraldo.
According to Mileidy Giraldo, Lenovo’s Global Lead of Life Sciences, high processing computing and AI, personalised, precision health care “is a way of delivering patient care by tailoring treatments and medical decisions to the individual”.
Currently, much of our healthcare is based on the “average” person, but that poses a large problem – nobody
is, in fact, “average”.
Our individual genetic code is unique and is even likely to change slightly within an individual’s body.