Shanette graduated from the MLT Program in 2001. Her career has taken her all the way to Africa! Read about her journeys after graduation.

"After SPJC, I graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.S in Medical Technology. My first job as a technologist was at Brandon Regional Hospital where I only worked for a few months, as an amazing opportunity to work in cancer research as a research technician was offered to me. I worked full time as a research technician at the H Lee Moffitt Cancer Research but still continued to work part-time as a technologist at the University Community Hospital.

From 2003-2005, I returned full time to working as a generalist medical technologist in the Florida Hospital system. In October 2005, I accepted a position at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where I became departmentalized and worked in the Tranfusion Medicine Department. I transferred to the HIV Specialty Lab full time in early 2007 but continued to work part-time in the Transfusion Medicine Department, and this was where I developed the interest in HIV research. During this time, I decided to go back to school and pursued a M.Sc. Degree in Health Systems Management, which I received from the University of Baltimore.

From May 2009 until June 2010, I held the position of lab manager at the Zambia Emory HIV Research Project in Lusaka, Zambia. I recently accepted a position with Duke University as their Scientific/Laboratory Research Manager in Moshi, Tanzania with the Kilmanjaro Christian Medical Center(KCMC)-Duke collaboration project.  I am very excited about the post and scheduled to leave in early October 2010 for my new journey.

I am very grateful to all my professors and advisers who encouraged me to pursue the field of medical technology. With my clinical lab science background, I have been afforded the ability to be very flexible with my career. So far, I have only studied two paths of lab science, clinical and research, but there are so many other areas left to be explored."