The TeleRadiology World Is Flat Too
In this case, Stephen Wong has moved physically but he plans to continue his collaboration with Boston colleagues from Houston. It’s only tangentially related to teleradiology, but in so far as technology allows us to work from wherever we please, Wong’s relocation is another sign of the times.
Houston 1, Boston 0 - The Boston Globe
Wong can’t throw a slider, or hit one, either. But until recently he was one of the top scientists, working in one of the hottest fields of research, at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Now Wong is one of the top scientists, working in one of the hottest fields of research, in Houston. “Basically we are in the 21st century. With the advent of the Web, open access to online information, and convenient means of travel, the world is literally flat,” Wong told me from Houston, where he is chief of medical physics and vice chairman of radiology at Methodist Hospital and director of the bioinformatics program at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute.He took most of his lab with him, about 20 people in all, mostly Asian scientists. “It is as easy to collaborate and do science with people across states as with people next door to you,” he says. “I came across most of my Harvard colleagues more often in outside conferences and meetings than in Boston. No one place can lock into intellectual capital by location alone.”
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