Alexis Wheeler
“I’m a single mom, and it was important to me to find a career where I could provide for my daughter. I was always interested in dentistry because my mom worked as a dental consultant in a dentist’s office for 25 years. I liked that the work was different every day and that she got to interact with all different kinds of people.
“What I like about this as a career is that oral hygiene can help people have better health and live longer. Now I understand more about how what you eat affects your health, and the importance of oral health on your overall health. This is a good job — everyone has teeth! So it’s a profession guaranteed to always have jobs available. I'm looking forward to having an impact on people’s lives in a healthy way.”
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Oanh Kim Nguyen, MLT(ASCP)
Medical Laboratory Technician
Methodist Medical Center of Dallas
“My first experience at community college was taking ESL classes at Richland and Brookhaven, which were close to where I lived. Then when I started exploring what kind of program I wanted to take for a career change, I saw Medical Laboratory Technology and transferred to El Centro ... I always tell people who are thinking about community college to think about Medical Laboratory Technology, and I tell them about my personal experience with the program. It’s a stable job, in a quiet environment with a lot less stress than many other medically related fields, and the people are very friendly and professional. I really love my job.”
English as a Second Language (ESL and ESOL), Medical Laboratory Technology
Dolores (Dee) Schueler, BSN, LVN, RN, CRNI
Director of Nurses
USBioservices
“Our instructors had high expectations and saw our potential. They let us know that it wasn’t going to be easy, but it wasn’t going to be insurmountable either.”
Nursing
Sylvia Moreno, BSN, RN
Director of HIV Services
Parkland Hospital of Dallas
“Community college gave me everything I needed to take and succeed in classes for an advanced degree.”
Nursing
Shawn Terry, B.A., RRT, RCP
Respiratory Care Practitioner,
Parkland Health and Hospital System
“Respiratory therapists are not just technicians trained to deliver treatments and therapies with different types of equipment. We have to truly comprehend a wide range of topics and how they relate to a patient’s condition.”
Respiratory Care Program
Alexis Wheeler
Dental Hygiene Student
Dental Hygiene
School of Health Sciences