06/20/2025
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SCABBinar: Charting Your Course: Careers in Medical Laboratory Science
Monday, June 23, 2025 | Noon EST
Considering blood banking as a career? Contemplating if you are on the right career path? This SCABBinar could be your “ah ha” moment! Featuring two energetic and experienced speakers, and moderated by an industry expert, you won’t want to miss out on “Charting Your Course: Careers in Medical Laboratory Science”.
Objectives
1. List three different career trajectories for someone interested in the field of blood banking
2. Describe additional training that might advance the career of someone with an MLS degree
3. Explain how someone with a high school diploma can begin a career in blood banking
Description: Two experienced blood bankers will describe their careers, provide recommendations for people new to the field what they can do to advance their careers, and answer questions related to those topics.
Moderated by: Mary Berg, MD, Medical Director, Transfusion, Apheresis, and AutoTransfusion Services, University of Colorado Hospital; Professor of Clinical Pathology, University of Colorado
Speakers: Wyenona Hicks, MS, MLS(ASCP)SBB
With 38 years of experience, half of which have been spent in teaching, Nonie has published abstracts and articles and recently co-authored the 6th edition of Basic & Applied Concepts of Blood Banking and Transfusion Practices (2025) with Paula Howard. I have enjoyed speaking and attending international, regional, and state professional meetings. I am a novice digital photographer and artist who enjoys acrylic painting on various substrates, including canvases and glass.
Michelle Palk, BS/BA, MT (ASCP), SBB (ASCP) Senior Director Reference & Transfusion Services West Territory Vitalant.
P.A.C.E.
SCABB is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program.
FLORIDA CE
SCABB is approved as a provider of Florida Continuing Education through CE Broker.
