For much of his youth, Ramin Abrahim was an only child, and his father encouraged him to occupy those hours making art. From making charcoal drawings in a sketchbook, the boy was given a miniature camera at age 10, which sparked an interest in photography.
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For the next eight years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates significant opportunity in the imaging field for MRI and rad techs: a need to add 16,000 professionals annually to meet the growing demand for medical imaging services across a variety of patient populations.
When he’s not reviewing medical images for his role as the medical director for MRI and radiology at Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital in Omaha, radiologist Derek Burdeny is out studying images in the field – quite literally.
Beyond that, Zheng said club hockey provides a sense of physical and mental freedom that he doesn’t find elsewhere. He described it as “a mini-recharge during the week.”
Many healthcare professionals talk grandly about the need for continuing education and forming a lifelong commitment to learning. More than most, Jennifer J. Alexander has lived it.
Throughout his 35-year medical imaging career, Chris Beasley has experienced sweeping shifts in the job. From starting as a darkroom tech in an outpatient imaging center in the 1980s to running the radiology department at the University of Missouri Healthcare, he’s held a variety of positions at facilities across the country.
After you’ve visited 82 different countries in the world – and you’re counting down the next 100 you have yet to tour – it might be easy to feel like you’ve seen nearly everything there is to see. But for globetrotter Bryan Henderson, travel represents a lifelong pursuit upon which the sun has yet to set, no matter where on the planet he’s viewing it.
As a child growing up in New Jersey, D.J. Patel loved recording music from the radio broadcasts in his home. He played a bit of piano, and would go on to become an accomplished dancer/choreographer, but Patel believed the most direct way of communicating the emotions that he felt from music to was by becoming a deejay.
Radiologists in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Nairobi, Kenya are partnering on a four-year research project integrating distance learning, teleradiology and virtual reality.
Ultrasound technician Savannah Sossamon is a recent addition to the staff at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, but her commitment to caring for children extends beyond the workplace; beyond even her own community, to those in the under-resourced country of Mozambique.
