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#IAmHHS: Seeing People for Their Strengths, Not Their Weaknesses

By: Robert Weichbrod, Chief of Animal Program Administration at the National Eye Institute

For nearly 40 years, my career has revolved around ensuring the humane care and management of laboratory animals used in biomedical research.  I am really not a person who likes to sing my own praises, but for background, I am the chief of Animal Program Administration at the National Eye Institute (NEI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health. I have been president of professional societies and served on boards. And I have co-edited a leading text book on the management of laboratory animal care and use programs.
But even with all this, I consider one of my most important career accomplishments to be motivated by a simple question that was posed to me at a Special Olympics holiday party back in 2005: “Hey Doc, how about getting me a job?”
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