Chief Technologist (Medical Laboratory Scientist), Transfusion Medicine
UChicago Medicine
BLD Make Connections Collection
BLD Make Connections - Dr. Andre Lee, co-owner, Heart n'Soul Hospice, 1966
Dr. Andre Lee, a 1966 graduate of Michigan State University's Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program, talks about his unique journey from the lab to hospital administration to owning and operating hospice care centers.
BLD Make Connections - Emily Morrow, MLS (ASCP)CM, 2015
Through the CLS program, she had her six-month internship at HFH. Following the fellowship,
she first worked in HFH’s Core/STAT and the chemistry laboratories for about 3 years.
She then moved out of the main laboratory and began a role as a Point of Care Coordinator
at HFH for 3 years, which gave her robust quality and regulatory knowledge as well
as provided her with the opportunity to meet and engage with more hospital staff outside
of just Pathology. During her time as a POCC, she went back to school at Central Michigan
University, where she pursued her Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration
in Health Systems Leadership. As of this past July, she is now in a one-year program
as an Administrative Fellow at Henry Ford Health.
BLD Make Connections - Michael Hirschenberger, Biomedical Laboratory Science degree, 2023
Michael shares his experience applying to PA, what life is like as a PA student and how being in the BLD program helped him through his journey.
BLD Make Connections - Yibo Gu - MSU Biomedical Laboratory Science Student Experience
Yibo shares tips on how to find a research opportunity as an undergraduate student and explains his fruit fly project.
BLD Make Connections - Ahmer Semna, Operations Investigator, Pfizer
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.
BLD Make Connections - Matt Zamora, PA-C, MLS
Matt Zamora talks about his transition from forensic science to medical lab science and becoming a PA.
BLD Make Connections - Elizabeth Ingle
Elizabeth Ingle, graduated from MSU with a degree in Biomedical Laboratory Science in 2014.
BLD Make Connections - Adam Blacker
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.
BLD Make Connections - Dana Griffin
Dana graduated from Michigan State in 2006 with a degree in Biomedical Sciences (at the time it was called Medical Technology) and completed her internship at Hurley Medical Center in Flint. She worked for 2 years as a Generalist CLS at Huron Valley Hospital DMC. From there she took a job as a Blood Banker at Providence Park Hospital (Ascension) in Novi.
BLD Make Connections - Rebekah Martin
BLD Make Connections - Michaelene Hultman MT(ASCP)SBBcm - Your Career Path Is Not Going To Be Linear
BLD Make Connections - Dr. Kelsey Hummel - Celebrate The Laboratory Profession
BLD Make Connections - Max Louzon - Building Your Career, Starting Now!
BLD Make Connections - Lisa McFarlane | MT(ASCP), SM(ASCP) (BS '82) - Learning to Fail Forward
BLD Make Connections - Meredith Herman - Enjoy the Process
BLD Make Connections - Elizabeth Means, MLS, SBB (ASCP), MBA - Adapt & Learn New Skills
BLD Make Connections - Allegra Smith - Planning Your Future
BLD Make Connections - Danielle Casey - Develop Your Professional Skills
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.
BLD Make Connections - Santana McIntyre - Build Your Network
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/
BLD Make Connections - Maggie Smith - Interviewing a Medical Laboratory Scientist
"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."