Navigating Health Care Careers: Chart Your Path from High School to Health Care: Full Schedule

Welcome to the 2025 WakeMed health care careers conference for high school students Navigating Health Care Careers: Chart Your Path from High School to Health Care!

In order to participate in this event on Friday, March 14, 2025, you must be invited by an event coordinator, and you must have a full schedule of 8 sessions. To be invited to this event, please have a parent sign the WakeMed consent form and email the form to WorkforceDevelopment@wakemed.org.

Friday, March 14th is a WCPSS traditional calendar teacher workday. If your school does not follow this calendar, you may elect to seek an excused absence from your school’s administration to attend this educational event.

Please email WorkforceDevelopment@wakemed.org with additional questions.

8:30am EDT

Imaging: Seeing People From the Inside Out

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT

Room 6

This session will provide a high-level overview of the different imaging modalities. We will discuss X-Ray, Mammography, CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, and Interventional Radiology and the unique benefits of each.

Speakers

Tara Aydlett

Imaging Manager, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

James Taylor

Radiation Safety Manager, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Matt Cross

Radiology Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT
Room 6

Allied Health

8:30am EDT

Pathology

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT

Simulation Lab Classroom 3

Histology and Cytology - Where Art and Science Meet
Hands-on slide demonstration, lab process, and technique review, educational requirements , etc.

Clinical Laboratory Science – Saving Lives by Providing Results
Hands-on displays of lab activities/equipment, information about different areas of the lab, simulated lab tasks, etc.

Phlebotomy and Specimen Processing
Phlebotomy demonstrations, education/training requirements, and information about job duties like various sample types.

Speakers

Lindsay Kimbrell

Manager, Pathology - Microbiology, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Nallely Ramos Vega

Histology/Cytology Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Eric Hill

Cytologist II, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Oscar Gonzalez

Histologist II

Allie Kelly

MLS II (Microbiology), WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Hello! I graduated from ECU with a bachelor's degree in Clinical Laboratory Science in 2016. I landed my first job in 2015 while still finishing my degree, working in the microbiology department at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC (now known as ECU Health Medical Center). Once... Read More →

Manal Dahnoun

MLS II (Microbiology), WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Katherine Goodwin

MLS II (Transfusion Service), WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Linda Adkins

MLS III (Transfusion Service), WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Anne Bruce

Pathology Manager, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

I manage inpatient phlebotomy at all 3 Wakemed hospitals.

Marcus Moore

Pathology Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Mwacha Kyona

Pathology Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Jerry Docking

Pathology Team leader, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Mackenzie Cameron

Pathology Team leader, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

I joined WakeMed full time in March of 2020, yep, right when covid struck the world. It was scary and it was a rough time to be in health care, but it stretched me and molded me into the team lead I am today. I had a lot of mentors along the way and continue to learn on a daily basis... Read More →

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT
Simulation Lab Classroom 3

Allied Health

8:30am EDT

Respiratory Therapy: Catch Your Breath!

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT

Room 7

Respiratory therapists are like detectives for your lungs and heart. They know a lot about how these parts of your body work and are experts who can help diagnose and treat issues you might have with your breathing. They’re experts in dealing with all sorts of lung problems, whether they happen suddenly or last a long time.

This session will explore Respiratory Therapy A-Z!

Speakers

Crystal O'Neal

Director, Respiratory Therapy, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT
Room 7

Allied Health

8:30am EDT

We Are Pharmily

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT

Room 4

In this session, presenters will review several career opportunities in the hospital pharmacy setting. Pharmacy technician, pharmacist, and administrative or more unique roles like the Pharmacy Buyer will be presented and highlighted.

Pharmacy

Speakers

Erin Koontz

Pharmacy Operations Manager, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Prince Yabani

Pharmacy Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Adam Cochran

Pharmacy Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Ethan Meadows

Pharmacy Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Jenn Rinkes

Pharmacy Supervisor, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Amanda Gorman

Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Mary Coleman

Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator, WakeMed Health & Hospitals

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT
Room 4

Allied Health

8:30am EDT

Wellness Matters (Outpatient Rehab)

Friday March 14, 2025 8:30am - 8:50am EDT

Room 3

Come learn from a few healthcare providers who focus on keeping people out of the hospital.

Hear from Registered Dietitians, Exercise Physiologists, and Physical Therapists about how they teach patients about healthy lifestyle behaviors. You will learn things like how your vital signs change with exercise, how food affects your brain and your body, and how to help prevent falls for your family and friends at home.

*Don’t forget to check out our sister session, The Rehab Experience: Think Fast!

Speakers