Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas

We were doing well.

We were recruiting.

I ate dinner with a friend who was like, yeah, you should come to Northwestern.

And I was like, for what?

I'm going to go from running a business, being independent, doing what I want to do to an employee at a large house in academics.

And I was like, I'm not sure that that's exactly what I want to do.

I can practice anywhere in the country if I wanted to change my job.

And he was like, no, that's not what I mean.

We have an innovation center.

And I was like, what does that mean?

And so he knew what I was interested in and what I wanted to do.

So I came, did an interview, met with quite a few people, worked with the

AI machine learning team, worked with the venture side, met with the CEO.

And I was just like, if this is real and you are giving me protective time to actually look into how we can change health care, how we can look into the future, we will make mistakes because it's all Mason right now.

There's no guidelines.

There's no rules.

Everyone's building it as the bus is moving.

If you're allowing me to try that and make mistakes potentially and, you know, not get terminated, then I won't.

And the answer was like, yes.

And I can honestly say everything that they promised actually has come to fruition.