Jytte Brender McNair, Copenhagen [Holte], Denmark

Coming to the Mereon Team in 2000, brought a new perspective to my scientific focus relative to the theoretical and practical aspects of Quality Management and Technology Assessment. A unique combination of R&D experience, together with fifteen years in a university hospital, nine years as an industrial researcher, and ten years as full-time university researcher, my work was further cross-fertilized by my education and expertise in Biochemistry (M.Sc., Copenhagen University, 1973), an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Copenhagen University, 1991), and a European Doctorate & PhD in Medical Informatics (Aalborg University, Technology & Science Faculty, 1997). I am professor emeritus at the Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.  My competence and area of research interest includes all aspects of evaluation and quality & risk management, ranging from constructive evaluation (dynamic, self-reflective, purpose-driven and corrective evaluation), to analysis of organisational and behavioural aspects within their global context. This link will take you to my website.  

My initial university education was in Biochemistry, and later extended into Computer Science with a specialization in Informatics. My work covers the breadth of Organisational Development, Management, and change, branching into General Systems Theory, and the theoretical aspects related to the quality of semantics in medical knowledge management systems.  Involved with modelling the architectural logic of organisations, at the present time I am the Quality & Risk Manager for a very large EU Research Project, PSIP, a venture including IBM and Oracle.

It is this background as a professional researcher, with 30 years of full-time research, that I bring to the team work on the Mereon model.  I am now dedicating my attention full time to the Mereon Model. For more than a decade, I have actively witnessed and participated in the developments of this work, understanding it and then applying it to natural and social science. I anticipate that the breakthroughs to which Mereon will lead will be the fulfilment of everything I ever imagined occurring during the course of my career. With the full support of my university, I am actively seeking grants to conduct full time research on Mereon as a template for modeling domain knowledge, the present focus being clinical genetics.

Lynnclaire lived with my husband and me during those three busy years where the scientific discoveries grew exponentially. We both witnessed her integrity, personal and professional, as well as her unceasing efforts to bring forward Mereon’s intricate, dynamic details at an ever deepening level. It has been intriguing – and has kept me involved – that her predictions, all based upon the Mereon model, have not once failed. Her comprehensive insight into Mereon has more than once allowed her to make hard-core scientific ‘predictions’ that were eventually  validated by independent researchers; most of the time these individuals were not involved with or aware of the Mereon work.

I have personally witnessed outcomes that seem like miracles from applying the same knowledge and understanding to BeLonging, an educational project. The results of this project by far exceeded my rational expectations and, to me, affirmed Mereon’s wide-scale applicability in a General Systems context.

Based on my understanding and experience, the implications and opportunities for Mereon to be applied within the range of social sciences, general systems theory, organisational development, natural science, and natural systems are beyond our imagination. Why? Because I witness daily how Mereon works in my own life, and I see how it works in the world.