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Reed Stewart serves as a BMET III at Betsy Johnson Hospital-Cape Fear Valley Health System. He began his HTM career by earning an associate in applied science-biomedical equipment technology from Durham Technical Community College.
TechNation recently interviewed Stewart to find out more about his interest in HTM and his goals for the future.
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: Dunn, North Carolina
Q: Where did you receive your HTM training/education?
A: Durham Technical Community College
Q: How did you first discover HTM?
A: Viewing available local college programs, and discovered the program at Durham Tech.
Q: Why did you choose to get into this field?
A: I’ve always had a desire for technology and repairing mechanical/electrical systems. My dad also always encouraged me to get a job in the healthcare field, so biomed is a perfect combination of the two.
Q: What do you like most about your position?
A: I enjoy the amount of value that I feel from performing this job, from the feeling of helping the users resolve their issues to explaining our little-known field to people outside of the healthcare world.
Q: What interests you the most about HTM?
A: I enjoy learning the real-world relationships between a piece of electrical equipment and its applications to the human body. Being able to see and understand the technology that bridges physical readings to analytical data is very interesting to me.
Q: What has been your greatest accomplishment in your field thus far?
A: Receiving employee of the year in our clinical technology services department this year.
Q: What goals do you have for yourself in the next 5 years?
A: I would like to continue to learn how to service more equipment in house, and possibly start branching into more in-depth imaging service.
FUN FACTS
Favorite hobby:
Saltwater fishing
Favorite show or movie:
“The Hateful Eight”
Favorite meal:
Homemade lasagna
What would your superpower be?
Being able to read nurses’ handwriting would be an incredible power
1 Thing on Your Bucket List:
Scuba diving a shipwreck
Something your co-workers don’t know about you:
My wife and I are thinking about having a baby soon
