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| Galina Warren (at front, wearing black) |
Editor's note: College of Medicine employees of the month are nominated by college leaders.
Galina Warren of the UNMC Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences is the UNMC College of Medicine employee of the month.
- Name: Galina Warren
- Title: Clinical coordinator
- Hometown: Beltsy, Moldova
Talk about your job and what you like best about it:
Clinical coordinators are full time multitasking ninjas specializing in taming chaos. No matter how much I plan for a day, things happen, patients cancel, and I may not be able to cross even one item off my list that day. I like the total chaos of my job and I like to put this chaos into an order. I like that my day is never the same. And most importantly, I like that most people have no idea what I do.
It is also extremely rewarding to give patients free LASIK, and I do exactly that when we have LASIK studies. The studies usually last a year or two and I get to know my patients very well. After a while, it’s like meeting a good friend.
I like interactions with patients, doctors, monitors, CROs, other coordinators and hundreds of people I have never met but talk with for years via emails. These interactions turn into unique relationships over time. I love being a part of this chaos of relationships and interactions but also being in control of it.
List three things people may not know about you:
- Most people don’t know that I love cats and have four cats at home. Yep, I’m a bona-fide cat lady.
- I love inventing words. With different people, I use different made-up words – they are called "our touch points" (also a made-up expression).
- I joke all the time and love to make people laugh (I just do it with a complete "poker face" to maintain the stealth mode).