My son Isaac has Down syndrome. He was born in 2015, within a year of me receiving tenure at Simpson College. The experience of being his mother has had a profound effect on me as a mathematician. Having been with him through eleven surgeries over sixteen hospitalizations, I wanted to learn about his medical complexities and, more generally, about coordinated health care for those with chronic illness. To accomplish these goals, I’ve looked to my teaching and research. In the spring of 2016, I designed a sophomore-level mathematical modeling course on the respiratory system. In the summer of 2016, I led a group of three undergraduates to utilize location analysis as a means of understanding patient access in the health care system. We used p-median and maximal covering models to investigate patient access to Down syndrome specialty care clinics in the United States. More recently, together with a graduate student in medical anthropology and a handful of undergraduates in mathematics, I’ve initiated a project on family perspectives of attending a Down syndrome specialty clinic. Through teaching and research, I’ve used math as my superpower to help understand and improve health care for individuals with Down syndrome. In the summer of 2014, I naively thought that I had a good grasp on workfamily balance. I had just earned tenure in my dream job at Simpson College, where I could teach a variety of courses and routinely conduct undergraduate research. Despite a healthy dose of imposter’s syndrome, I was able to publish work with my undergraduates and faculty colleagues and obtain grant funding. I was asked to contribute about best practices in undergraduate research for the 2015 Committee on the Undergraduate Program in MathematJournal of Humanistic Mathematics Vol 8, No 2, July 2018

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唐氏综合症的好处：数学是我的超级大国！

我儿子以撒患有唐氏综合症。他出生于2015年，距我在辛普森学院（Simpson College）任职的一年不到。成为母亲的经历对我作为数学家的影响深远。在经历过16次住院治疗和11次外科手术之后，我想了解他的医疗复杂性，更笼统地说，是关于慢性病患者的协调医疗服务。为了实现这些目标，我已经进行了教学和研究。在2016年春季，我设计了关于呼吸系统的二年级数学建模课程。在2016年夏季，我带领三名本科生组成的小组，利用位置分析作为了解医疗保健系统中患者可及性的一种方式。我们使用p中位数和最大覆盖率模型来研究患者进入美国唐氏综合症专科诊所的机会。最近，我与医学人类学的研究生和少数几个数学系的本科生一起，发起了一个关于就诊唐氏综合症专科诊所的家庭观点的项目。通过教学和研究，我将数学作为我的超级力量，帮助理解和改善了唐氏综合症患者的医疗保健。2014年夏天，我天真地以为自己对工作与家庭的平衡掌握得很好。我刚刚在辛普森学院（Simpson College）的梦想工作中获得终身任职，在那里我可以教各种课程并定期进行本科生研究。尽管有健康的冒名顶替综合症剂量，我能够与我的本科生和教职员工一起发表论文，并获得拨款。我被要求为2015年数学本科课程委员会的本科生研究最佳实践做出贡献人文数学杂志第8卷第2期2018年7月