November Reflection

Ashley M Knepler

HCI 548: HCI Seminar

Professor Boone

November 18, 2021

 November Reflection

For this month’s seminar, we had the opportunity to hear from two guest speakers. The

first guest speaker was Tracy Elmer who is the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at TrueCare and

the second guest speaker was Jud Simonds who is the Ambulatory Nursing Director at Swedish

Medical Group. I enjoy when we get to hear from others their journey on how they got to the

position they are currently at. Like some other classmates, I do not come from a clinical

background, so hearing from someone like Tracy who had a similar background as I get to the

position, she is at today gives me a lot of reassurance that no goal is out of reach for me. Tracy

also gave a lot of good pointers for students on how they can boost their resume and career

through obtaining certain certifications and also keeping in touch with previous mentors.

Jud had a lot of great information regarding the health informatics and data analytic field, it was

great to hear about how much the field is growing and where there are opportunities for students.

The last part of seminar ended with going over upcoming dates for students to complete projects

and how we can plan for the final semester of the program. I think the seminars are a great

opportunity to remind students of these due dates because we can get overwhelmed sometimes

with school.