Andrew Sandstedt has always been an artist, but it took some time for him to take his talents into the professional sphere. As a teenager, he’d considered pursuing an arts degree after high school; his parents convinced him to get a business degree instead. When Sandstedt would see his classmates clutching their art portfolios on campus, he’d think, “Well, maybe someday,” and redirect his focus to his schoolwork.
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Jordan Schneider has always enjoyed working on machines. As a kid, it was bicycles, with his brother and a few friends; when they got their driver licenses, their focus turned to cars.
Benjamin credits his uncle with fostering his sense of curiosity and an interest in working with his hands, which led to a lifelong love of woodworking, a career as an Air Force mechanic, and provided the skill set that underpins his work in the radiology space as well.
When Jason Szmania first enrolled in a karate class, he was a middle-schooler whose parents wanted him and his brother to have something to keep them out of trouble until they were old enough for high school sports. Szmania enjoyed it well enough, but by the time football and wrestling came around, martial arts had fallen by the wayside.
Kernesha Weatherly is vice president of imaging at the New Orleans, Louisiana-headquartered Ochsner Health System, which spans 40 hospitals, 60 private care clinics, and even more freestanding centers throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
By Matt Skoufalos As the vice president of community health equity at the UAB Health System in Birmingham, Alabama, Verlon…
As the MRI department manager at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey, Mark Linderman has a number of responsibilities across all departmental operations, from imaging and scheduling to patient safety, payroll and staff training.
From Monday through Friday, Wes Harden is the director of imaging services for the 580-bed Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, South Carolina. On the weekends, however, Harden makes the lengthy commute to his Florida home, not only to visit his family, but to tend his pineapple crop.
For the past 30 years, Wendy Renneke of Woodinville, Washington, has worked for the University of Washington Medical Center. Her imaging expertise led her from roles as a radiologic technologist into imaging supervisory positions and, finally, to her current job as practice manager for an outpatient primary care clinic in the UW Medicine health system.
When she arrived in the United States in 2001, Elena Danilova began seeking to continue the medical career she had begun in her native Russia. There, Danilova had worked as a physician’s assistant, but the professional burnout she experienced left her interested in a career in MRI. In 2004, Danilova arrived in California, and enrolled at Sonoma College with the intention of becoming an MRI technologist.
