Presentation
Your good health is a workforce issue
Authors
Event Type
Student Technical Paper
Technical Paper
Workforce
Technical Paper
Student Technical Paper
TimeTuesday, July 243:30pm - 3:45pm
LocationKings Garden 1
DescriptionThe High Performance Computing, cyberinfrastructure, and research and academic information technology communities are small - too small to fulfill the needs for such professionals in the US. Members of this community are also often under a lot of stress, and with that can often come health problems. The senior author was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer in early 2017, and with the help of his wife and medical team is currently cancer free (as far as we know). In this paper we present a good bit of information about what we have learned about health management in general and dealing with cancer in particular, focusing on lessons that are portable to other members of the HPC, CI, and research and academic IT community. We also make recommendations to the National Science Foundation regarding changes the NSF could make to reduce some of the stress this community feels on a day-in, day-out basis. The key point of this report is to provide information to members of the cyberinfrastructure community that they might not already have, and might not receive from their primary care physicians, that will help them live longer and healthier lives, and preserve their ability to remain assets to US research and development efforts until a healthy retirement age.