Healthcare Technology Management: My Story
My mother passed away when I was 12 years old. She was in and out of the hospital with a life-threatening disease for all of my childhood. I turned to tinkering, building, creating and fixing as a way to cope — and so electronics became my passion. I went to college and pursued the first of my three degrees, an Associate in Electronics.
Shortly after I obtained that degree, I became the primary caregiver of my father after his cancer diagnosis. When he passed, I made a vow to myself to never find a job in a hospital. I had way too many bad memories of hospitals.
As fate would have it, my degree afforded me a job at the very hospital my dad passed in. Begrudgingly, I took the job, with the thought of garnering some experience and getting out as quickly as possible. With my electronics degree, I first worked on printers, televisions and nurse call systems.
Two of my colleagues worked on a team they called “bio-med.” I had never heard of it! They introduced me to the field and the vast array of medical devices they maintained, and I immediately fell in love with it! I took as much training as I could in bio-med and job-shadowed my peer to learn as much as I could to eventually become a BMETII.
In this field, I was not only able to use my passion and training for electronics, but I could also give back to the patients, nurses and doctors, which is truly what fulfills me every day.
As time passed — and after acquiring my master’s degree and working in other fields — I found myself back in the biomedical field as a Site Director for a few years before becoming a Senior Project Manager, assisting our Site Directors with their jobs within our system.
What makes me most proud of the work I do is assisting our team to help them be the best they can be at their jobs. My motivation is seeing a strong team, achieving positive results and managing a healthy work/life balance. I’m proud of my teams and the work we do, and I’m so grateful to have found a vocation as rewarding as Healthcare Technology Management.
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