Ahmer Semna, a 2021 graduate of Michigan State University, shares his experience in
the field and gives valuable advice to those seeking a job after graduation.
Adam Blacker has dedicated the last 17 years of his professional career to the clinical
laboratory. He currently acts a Diagnostic Laboratory Manager in the department of
Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
Nashville, Tennessee.
I graduated from Michigan State in 2006 with a degree in Biomedical Sciences (at the
time it was called Medical Technology) and completed my internship at Hurley Medical
Center in Flint. I worked for 2 years as a Generalist CLS at Huron Valley Hospital
DMC. From there I took a job as a Blood Banker at Providence Park Hospital (Ascension)
in Novi.
BLD Make Connections - Adapt & Learn New Skills, featuring Elizabeth Means, who maintains
her MLS and SBB (ASCP) certifications and has an MBA in Healthcare Management.
Danielle Casey (Graham) graduated from the CLS program at MSU in 2010. She completed
her internship at Covenant Hospital in Saginaw, then accepted a position as a generalist
on the midnight shift. From there she also worked at Sparrow Hospital as a generalist
and Beaumont Hospital in the Microbiology department before relocating to Traverse
City and taking a job at American Proficiency Institute – a laboratory proficiency
testing provider.
MSU BLD alum '18, Santana McIntyre, talks with current BLD Spartans about her experiences as
a medical laboratory scientist at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, what it was like
to sit for the MLS certification, and her time at the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics program. See future Make Connection events at bld.natsci.msu.edu/events/
I recently graduated from the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program in May of
2018. I signed up for the match program and was accepted into the Ascension St. John
Internship Class of 2019. I graduated from the internship in June of 2019 and got
hired as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in the Molecular Pathology Department where
I currently reside.
"We're in the field where we don't have the choice to not go to work. We have to be
there, and we have to do what's best for our patient population and our society as
a whole. Right now, we have the most important job. Clinicians can't really treat
these patients, or keep them in hospital, or send them home without us doing our job.
And that's why we're all still showing up."
