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Brittany Fromm
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Congratulations to Brittany Fromm (MT ‘10)! She’ll be working as a medical technologist at Northwest Hospital after graduation. Brittany will be a generalist in the clinical lab, which means she’ll be able to work in any of the lab disciplines.

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Mt students teach the NURS 310 class
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That is what the nursing students in NURS 310 recently learned when the medical technology seniors came to their class to teach them about the clinical specimens taken from patients, how they are used in laboratory tests to diagnose and determine treatment and how [...]

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MT students with Dr. Diana Molavi
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The Medical Technology program recently welcomed Dr. Diana Molavi, a pathologist at Sinai Hospital, to campus as part of the School of the Sciences Seminar Series. Dr. Molavi gave an interesting and informative talk about breast cancer screening and what it means [...]

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Pathogenic microbiology lab
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Medical Technology students in the Pathogenic Microbiology course spend their lab time using clinical procedures to identify unknown bacterial samples. The techniques learned and used in this course are used in the clinical lab to diagnose infectious disease in patients, so students are gaining practical experience with techniques [...]

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Medical Technology students in the physiological chemistry course recently accompanied their instructor, Ms. Sandy Macon, to the World Stem Cell Summit held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The students spent the day listening to talks and viewing posters by leading stem cell experts, and were exposed [...]

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MT students in lab
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Medical Technology students in the Pathogenic Microbiology course start the semester off working to identify unknown organisms. The students use standard microbiological techniques, including Gram staining and morphological identification (shown here), to identify the organisms as they would in the clinical laboratory.

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Congratulations to our May 2009 Medical Technology graduates – Melissa Ramtahal, Megan Zadra and Wendie Zearfoss. All three passed the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) licensing exam, giving the SU Medical Technology program a 100% pass rate for 2009!

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Congratulations to Melissa Kalinowski-Ramtahal (MT ‘09)! She has been hired after graduation as a Medical Technologist in Microbiology at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Towson, MD.

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Wendie Zearfoss (MT’09) will start work in Dr. Kathleen Murphy’s laboratory at Johns Hopkins University after graduation. The lab is a core facility for the institution, and conducts research on genetic markers for certain diseases and treatments. Congratulations Wendie!

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Megan Zadra (MT ‘09), will begin working after graduation as a Medical Technologist in the Blood Bank at Sinai Hospital! She’s pictured here at the reception celebrating the graduating MT seniors that was held at Sinai Hospital earlier this month. Congratulations Megan!

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