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My Technician Education Seminar Experience Joseph Monahan, CTBS, New England Donor Services I’m amazed at the amount of important information I learned at the 2021 TES. It was eye opening to […]
EBAA has so many amazing women throughout our membership and within our organization, we decided to take a full week (February 8 – 12) to highlight just a few of the women doing incredible work and blazing a trail for the next generation in the world of eye banking.
Kristen says, “I knew eye banking was where I wanted to be; I knew I could grow.” After ten years, she moved into management, but she missed performing recoveries, so she took a part-time job at the OPO and learned tissue recovery, which she did on nights and weekends. In 2019, she moved to Miracles in Sight, where she is the Vice President of Surgical Applications.
“Eye banking is like a family, with a lot of cultivation of high standards in service of patients. What makes EBAA outstanding is the collaboration between eye banking professionals and physicians for a common goal. It’s very unique for an association in medicine,” Michelle says.
Once Shannon walked in the door at the eye bank, she knew she had found the right place for her. “I felt like I was at home. I knew this is exactly what I should be doing,” she says. Coming to the eye bank put pieces of her history and interests together with her passions.
Amy got into eye banking in the early years of her residency and practice, partially from mentors like Marian Macsai, who she considers “one of the earliest champions” of her career. She credits the EBAA Physician Leadership Program in 2015 for really getting her invested in eye banking.
Asked to advise other young women interested in a career in STEM she suggests, “Don’t listen to the boys in high school; follow your passion. They’re probably teasing you because they’re jealous. Try a lot of things, and don’t forget the arts! Art exposure makes you an ‘outside the box’ thinker and helps you excel.”
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