Tan hasn't been shy about giving Henderson challenges that most administrative officers don't face. Her job over the past few years has expanded beyond the traditional confines of an administrative position. Henderson has given public presentations about her centre's offerings at conferences, done media interviews about the centre with the likes of CTV News and Radio-Canada and even collaborated on a research project. That project stemmed from a casual conversation Henderson had with some of the physicians after the centre had recently cut down on its previously high rate of triplets among patients receiving fertility treatments. Some doctors bemoaned the fact that the rates for twins were still high, but Henderson's intuition was that many patients wouldn't mind having twins.
Fertility treatments can be a lengthy, nerve-wracking and expensive process.
She suspected many parents would happily have two kids at once. The doctors decided to test her hypothesis and enlisted her as a co-investigator. The resulting paper won first prize at the 46th annual meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society. My philosophy is 'Let me try. If I screw up, I screw up.