MSHS Alumni Connections Mag Fall 2011 - MC4192 ... - Mayo Clinic

In the news
students
‘Bingo!’ for Radiation Therapy students
MSHS Radiation Therapy students brought a bingo party to residents of
Hope lodge in Rochester on June 16. Hope lodge provides housing for
patients undergoing cancer treatment.
Students called the games and served lemonade and snacks. Mayo Clinic
radiation therapists and dosimetrists donated money used to buy prizes — gift
cards to local restaurants and stores.
“This was the first time students hosted a bingo party as a community
service project,” says leila Bussman-Yeakel, RT(R)(T), program director for
Radiation Therapy. “It was fun for our students and a great diversion for Hope
lodge residents.”
alumnI
Eggert honored
for research
Laura Eggert, a 2009 graduate of
the MSHS Nuclear Medicine
Technology Program, has won the
2010 Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Technology (JNMT) first prize for her
manuscript, which was written while
she was a student. Her research project
was titled “A Rapid Radiochemical
Purity Testing Method for Tc-99m
Tetrofosmin.” It was published in the
May 2010 edition of the JNMT.
While a student in 2009, Eggert
also won first place in the Student
Radiopharmacy Category at the
6th Annual Society of Nuclear
Medicine meeting in Toronto,
Canada, for this research.
Eggert works as a nuclear
medicine technologist at CentraCare
Health Plaza and Central Minnesota
Heart Center, both in St. Cloud.
Left to right, bringing bingo to Hope Lodge are: Ashley Geissler, Amanda Wiersema,
Jaimee Sullivan, Anna Carlton and Brittany Shipman.
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