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Health Sciences & Technology Academy:  HSTA a WV Brain Gain Brainchild West Virginia University October 7, 2019
Introduce myself
Ann Chester, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Education Partnerships
Director, WV HSTA
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2. Since 1994 HSTA has helped improve WV health care as it trains an important and growing workforce.

4. 9th -12th grade afterschool clubs led by teachers
Structure and Flow
Science Projects
9th -12th grade afterschool clubs led by teachers
Summer Camp
9th
Graders
Summer
Camp
10th
Graders
Summer
Camp
11th
Graders
Summer
Camp
12th
Graders
College
Annual Symposium
Community Service

5. 46% Financially disadvantaged
37% African American
46% Financially disadvantaged
68% First in their families to go to college
69% Female
75% Rural
9th-12th Graders
20 year program
Started very small – 2 counties with about 40 students and 5 teachers
Grown to 800 students and 70 teachers in 26 of the 52 counties in WV

8. Lindsay McIntosh JD, General Counsel Kanawha County Board of Education
Summer Kuhn, MPH
HSTA Community Research Leader
Natalie Fraley, DVM
Owner, Middletown Animal Clinic
Andrew McDavid
Co-owner, A&M Properties & Investments
Jason Evans, Ph.D.
Professor in Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine, WVU
Stephanie Tyree JD
Executive Director,
WV Community Development Hub

9. Health Care Infusion that Stays in Rural WV
Kelsie Cromwell, front desk in 2012, returned to school graduated as a lab technician.
Sierra Miller, PT assistant
Carrie Durham, Nurse
Katie Atkins, Radiology Tech
Candy Cochran, Nurse now works for Sr. Citizens Center behind the hospital
Sara Barbe, RN
Stephanie Hall, Nurse, works there on holidays. She is in med school. 
Crystal Hickman, MD, local physician
Webster Memorial Hospital Photos taken Spring 2012
"Personally, it is such a HUGE comfort to our family to know that our best and brightest are there to care for us. I have experienced it many times with what are often life and death moments with XXX."

10. Improving lifestyles in communities as 9th -12th graders
Improving BMI
Improving Cholesterol
Increasing activity levels
Increasing awareness of flu shots, vaping, opioid crisis, bullying, water quality problems.
Markayla King, Minden, WV PCB’s

11. Economic Gain
77 Med and pre-med
32 Medical assistants
13 Dentistry
301 Nursing
44 Pharmacy
101 Rehab
156 Patient care
22 Public and community health
36 Health Care Administration
175 Mental Health
34 Radiology and related
38 Speech Path and Audiology
177 Biomedical Science – research and pre-health care majors
238 STEM
$30,000 more per year is the earning power of a HSTA grad than their highest earning parent

12. Let’s revive the American Dream using this HSTA model across every county in West Virginia.