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Engineering Director

January 25, 2022

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Name: Susan Weber
Title: Engineering Director
Company: Research IT, Stanford Medicine

You don’t have to be a doctor to have a career in medicine. Explore the role of Engineering Director with Susan Weber of Research IT through Stanford Medicine. Learn more about how Susan’s team uses data and software to support important medical research.

Learn more about Stanford Medicine Research IT: https://med.stanford.edu/researchit.html

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Introduction Transcription

Medicine is such a varied industry – and it goes way beyond doctors. Medical researchers and medical engineers are part of this category, all working to help to improve human health.

Today, you’ll hear my conversation with one of those people. Susan Weber is the Engineering Director at Research IT through Stanford Medicine. Her team supports medical researchers with data and software.

Susan is an advocate for listening to your inner voice – she spent a year in law school, and then decided that law wasn’t for her. Hear about how Susan’s passions led her to computer science and her advice for believing in yourself and following your path.

My STEM Career

Teachers and students: explore STEM careers and discover the ways computer science knowledge can help regardless of your path. In this show, we speak with industry experts that share information about their careers, describe their professional experiences, and offer advice to students. This show is hosted by Codelicious Computer Science Curriculum.