December 15, 2003
April Kameroff
April Kameroff, a laboratory assistant at the Aniak Sub-Regional Clinic traveled to Olympia Washington to attend the Northwest Medical Laboratory Symposium from October 21 to 23, 2003. She was requested to attend as a student representative for the University of Alaska - Anchorage laboratory program.
She attended workshops, met other laboratory workers and visited with the Alaska State President of the Clinical Laboratory Student Association.
While at the symposium she was able to meet with vendors, review new chemistry analyzers that the Bethel hospital will be using, and attend demonstrations of other analyzers. Some of the workshops that April attended included Iron Metabolism and Associated Anemias, Antimicrobial Drug Resistance and Susceptibility Testing, Updates in Cardiac Testing and Basic Coagulation Review.
April graduated from the Aniak High School and is currently employed at the Aniak Sub-Regional Clinic as a laboratory assistant and taking University of Alaska classes to become a Medical Laboratory Technologist.
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