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As a native Baltimorean,
I was educated in private religious schools for my secondary years. I chose
to attend college at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science for
the challenge and their superior record in training medical technology majors.
I attended the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Medical Technology in Baltimore
for my final clinical internship year and graduated in 1973. Marriage and
children quickly followed, yet employment in the clinical laboratory through
many shifts was a steady point in those early years. My career in education
started in 1980 on a part time basis when I became a faculty member at the
University of Maryland,Baltimore, Department of Medical and Research Technology.
At that time it was called the Program in Medical Technology. I developed
my teaching skills, adapted to the entirely new world of academics and began
to imagine myself with a graduate degree. In 1986, I enrolled in the Professional
Writing program at Towson State University and four years later graduated
with an MS in Biomedical Communication. Pairing the degrees of medical technology
and biomedical communication have empowered me to teach courses in Scientific
Communication at three universities, to give national workshops in the subject
and to partner with my Maryland colleagues in giving national workshops
in Hematology and Coagulation. I am supportive of the American Society of
Clinical Pathology and through the Associate Member Section I have served
as co-editor of two of their educational products (Tech Sample) and I was
recently asked to be a corresponding member of the Program committee. I
have been fortunate to win four teaching awards at University of Maryland
and to be the recipient of the Excellent in Education award from the ASCP-Associate
Member Section for 2000. Throughout my academic career, I have chaired recruitment
committees, served as a collaborative grant writer, authored chapters in
textbooks, written articles and developed educational strategies. I have
been blessed with three beautiful daughters and an exceptional husband.
I consider teaching and education a vocation and one in which I am constantly striving to break down barriers and allow students to desire and then to aspire. It is my life's work. |
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