{"id":145819,"date":"2025-03-26T14:53:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=145819"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:56:52","slug":"healthier-through-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/healthier-through-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthier Through Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Salow believes medical innovation is the key to bringing hope and health to the planet. That\u2019s why he\u2019s investing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/college\/medicine\/\">UCF\u2019s College of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thursday, April 10 is UCF Day of Giving. Join us in celebrating all things Black &amp; Gold by making your gift at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/dayofgiving.ucf.edu\/?utm_source=ucftoday&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_campaign=5things&amp;utm_content=Subhead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>dayofgiving.ucf.edu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Salow led global technology and customer service teams at Ameriprise Financial and was chief global information officer at American Express. Together, he and his wife Rosemary first supported the medical school through scholarships because they wanted to provide more UCF-trained physicians to the community, who would be able to pick their specialty based on their passions, rather than the need to pay off huge medical school debt. The Salows have now committed $6 million to the College of Medicine, including $1 million to foster medical technology that will improve physician education, research and patient care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know this sounds lofty, but we are at a junction where technology and medicine coming together can address the most basic problems that plague the world,\u201d Salow says.<\/p>\n<h2>Harnessing Technology for Good<\/h2>\n<p>You could say a stalled commuter train in New Jersey during the 1970s sparked Salow\u2019s passion for technology.<\/p>\n<p>He was working as an accountant with Hess. He dropped Rosemary at the train station every morning and picked her up at night as she commuted to Newark for work. One day, the system stalled, so he was stuck at work for hours waiting for her train to arrive. Bored, he found a tech manual for a data organizer\/computing tool used long before PCs. He read it cover-to-cover and realized he could create code to do many of the accounting mechanisms he was doing by hand. Salow presented his discovery to his bosses, who quickly assigned him to computerize their entire business.<\/p>\n<p>He then served in senior technology roles at Aetna and Lehman Brothers before joining American Express as senior vice president of technology infrastructure and then global chief information officer. He retired in 2012 as executive vice president of service delivery and technology and chief information officer of Ameriprise Financial.<\/p>\n<p>Salow knows that technology can bring fears \u2014 of displaced workers, impersonal customer service interactions, invasions of privacy. Such worries have happened through history, he says, pointing to how the telephone caused doubters to say the nation could never hire enough phone operators to make the new technology work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as tech evolves, so do other systems,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the U.S. we are innovative and flexible. We find ways to make things work.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Technology and Healthcare Access<\/h2>\n<p>Salow believes the world\u2019s problems start with a \u201clack of hope.\u201d People feel hopeless, he says, when they are not personally secure \u2014 with sufficient food, housing and physical well-being \u2014 and do not have the opportunity to improve their lot in life.<\/p>\n<p>Marrying technology with medicine is a factor in addressing hopelessness by providing expanded wellness and health opportunity to everyone, Salow says. He describes a future where AI and technology allow a patient to connect with their doctor anywhere, anytime. Technology can be developed so every patient can download their vital signs from a phone, send pictures of their injury or rash, and attend a virtual clinic appointment. AI can help advise their physician on the most likely diagnosis. The doctor can send in a prescription or treatment order via the internet. \u201cWe can\u2019t train enough doctors to care for everyone,\u201d he says. \u201cBut we can use technology to provide concierge medicine for all and help people in Appalachia, in remote villages in Nigeria. As the internet expands worldwide, we can bring health to the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Space medicine \u2014 an emerging research area at UCF\u2019s College of Medicine \u2014 will create new health innovations for patients on Earth, he says. With an increasing number of space travelers going to the moon and beyond, medicine must design systems to diagnose and treat health problems for astronauts in isolated capsules where simple emails can take hours to send and receive. Discoveries of how to use technology for intergalactic medical care can be applied to isolated areas of the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith technology, we can also get ahead of disease,\u201d he says, \u201cand develop predictive scans and tests. By preventing disease, we can improve the quality of life globally \u2014 another step to bringing hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developing such technologies will require healthcare to use what he calls the Space X model, where users of technology and those who create those systems work on the same teams, providing ongoing feedback and ideation for solving problems.<\/p>\n<p>Salow serves on the Dean\u2019s Advisory Council at the College of Medicine. \u201cGlen is a true friend of the College of Medicine and the university,\u201d says Dr. Deborah German, vice president for health affairs and medical school dean. \u201cAt this moment in time, as we seize the opportunity to advance technology and engineering in healthcare, Glen has become a strategic partner. We benefit from his knowledge, experience and resources. I am grateful for all he brings to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salow considers himself as an \u201copportunity catalyzer,\u201d and says he believes UCF has the opportunity to be a global leader in the medical technology field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour medical school is young enough and small enough to be nimble,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are at a crossroads. 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