User:Stan.Shaw

Stan Shaw is an IT professional with expertise in communications technologies, including videoconference systems. Stan has been a key contributor to the medical school expansion program at the University of British Columbia, developing leading edge multi-media systems and working with a team of support staff in three Universities and six Health Authorities to teach medicine across the Province. Recently, Stan served as the IT Strategic Initiatives Lead for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. With over 4,000 full-time faculty and staff, the Faculty of Medicine has 20 departments and centers. The medical school spans the province, using leading edge educational technologies to teach medicine to stringent standards across three Universities and six Health Authorities.

In this role, Stan was an active contributor in the planning and development of a distributed e-learning environment to support the expansion of the Medical School into Victoria and Prince George. The distributed medical program is the first of its kind in North America. Now in operation covering the first two years of the medical program, and spanning three Universities, the project has been regarded as highly successful and has attracted interest from medical schools across the country and the United States. For an insight into the network infrastructure required to support the program, see: http://www.bc.net/advanced_networks/case_studies/technology.htm

As part of planning for the 3rd and 4th clinical years of the medical expansion program and post graduate medical education, Stan represented the Faculty of Medicine, together with a team of senior faculty and staff, during discussions with CIOs in six Health Authorities concerning a $15 million project to install high-quality medical education technologies in health care institutions across the province. The result was sign-off on the project scope document, a major achievement given the number of stakeholders involved. The project was formally launched the project last fall.

Prior to his work on the medical expansion program, Stan directed the strategic planning, design, purchase and implementation of services and facilities for the Faculty of Medicine across a wide area network linking the UBC Point Grey campus, three teaching hospitals and affiliated centers across British Columbia. This included setting policies, procedures and guidelines and developing a quality assurance program to maintain a high level of support for faculty and staff. It also included development of a comprehensive network security policy designed to maintain a high level of data integrity while promoting a collaborative working environment for research, teaching and administrative activities.

Stan has also worked in the Health Care community, as a clinical medical laboratory technologist at several hospitals in British Columbia. There, he developed several custom in-house applications related to laboratory medicine, and through his daily work with laboratory information systems, developed strong interests in IT solutions for health care. While at UBC, he completed a Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science degree in 1989, followed by a Ph.D. with a thesis on cholesterol metabolism in 1996.

Stan is currently working as a consultant with Corban Techologies Inc., ( http://www.corbantechnology.com ). He is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and participates on the Collaborative Technology Working Group for BCNET.

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