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April 26, 2007

Clinical laboratory science faculty and staff win several prominent awards

海角社区鈥檚 Department of Clinical Laboratory Science received several student and faculty awards during the Louisiana Society for Clinical Laboratory Science鈥檚 annual state meeting in Shreveport April 17 鈥� 20.

The theme for the meeting was 鈥淟aboratory Incredibles: Medical Heroes.鈥� During the annual awards banquet, 海角社区 students and faculty received their honors.

John Whetstone, a senior from Collinston, won the Student of the Year award and the Keys to the Future award.

Susan Williamson won the student paper award in the clinical hematology category for 鈥淒iamond Blackfan Anemia 鈥� A Case Study on Amber Howe.鈥� Whetstone won in the clinical immunology category for 鈥淔ragile X Syndrome.鈥� Kimberly Barrett won in the clinical microbiology category for 鈥淏ioterrorism.鈥�

Williamson, a senior from Tallulah, and Barrett, a senior from Monroe, are current interns at St. Francis Medical Center. Whetstone is an intern at St. Vincent鈥檚 Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla.

Melanie Chapman and Debbie Wisenor won the Omicron Sigma Presidential Service Award. Wisenor also received the 2007 LSCLS Member of the Year Award.

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