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Keilah Mae Perez is “awesome” according to coworker David Scott at UC Health in Colorado. TechNation found out more about this bright member of the Next Gen including her goal to become CBET certified.
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: Donna, Texas
Q: Where did you receive your HTM training/education?
A: I studied at Texas State Technical College and did a semester internship at South Texas Health System Children’s Hospital.
Q: How did you first discover HTM?
A: Funny story, I was at a high school college fair and took a tour of the college I attended. I was introduced by my professor, who at the time was just our tour guide, and she gave us a run down on what the biomed program was and it just sparked my interest. Once I graduated high school, I immediately signed up for the program.
Q: How did you choose to get into this field?
A: I truly chose to become a biomed because I like tearing a piece of equipment apart, finding the problem and making it work again. I had never even heard about biomed until I went to that college fair. I had a girl professor named Star that had said there were not a lot of girls in the field because it was more male dominant, that truly gave me a bit of motivation to show what a girl can do in a “male dominant field.”
Q: What do you like most about your position?
A: I love that I am helping patients indirectly. I’m not a nurse and in contact with patients 24/7, but I am helping in the back end where if something doesn’t work with the equipment I am the one with a solution. I also love that in this position I am always learning something because medicine is always evolving and that means technology/equipment is too – meaning more opportunity to learn.
Q: What interests you the most about HTM?
A: What is so intriguing to me is that there is always something to learn on a daily bais. It’s the troubleshooting that gets me excited because once you find the problem you know how to fix that piece of equipment. The reward is knowing with certainty that the machine you just fixed is going to a patient who is in real need of it.
Q: What has been your greatest accomplishment in your field thus far?
A: My greatest accomplishment is being employee of the year for the clinical engineering department.
Q: What goals do you have for yourself in the next 5 years?
A: To become CBET certified, and to become a level 2 tech. I also want to expand my knowledge in school where I want to become a biomedical engineer. I hope that maybe one day I’ll create a new piece of medical equipment.
FUN FACTS
FAVORITE HOBBY:
Painting
FAVORITE SHOW OR MOVIE:
“Grey’s Anatomy”
FAVORITE MEAL:
Pho
WHAT WOULD YOUR SUPERPOWER BE?
Teleportation
1 THING ON YOUR BUCKET LIST:
To travel to New Zealand
SOMETHING YOUR CO-WORKERS DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU:
I can play “Fur Elise” by Beethoven on the piano