3.  How you can help doctors diagnose and treat disease?  How you can have an exciting and rewarding career helping others?  How you can join a growing field with flexibility and job security?

4.  Positions available in healthcare  Education, preparation and training  Career path and options  Where can you work…  Salaries  A quick word from our main speakers  Breakout Sessions

5.  Nurses  Physical Therapist  Dental Hygienist  Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)  Pharmacist  Optometrist  Dentist  Just to name a few…….

6.  High School: Solid skills in Math and Sciences like Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science  College: Combo of classroom and clinical training.  Medical Technology  Guidance Counselor can provide more info

7.  A student should complete a career self- assessment before that he/she chooses a specific career.  A student must know his or her passions, strengths and weaknesses before that student can successfully embark on a career path.  Healthcare jobs are at an all-time high, and are projected to grow even more.  Health care offers opportunities with varied backgrounds, skills, talents, and abilities.

8.  Hospitals  Physician  Independent or Reference Laboratories  Public Health  Pharmaceutical Companies  Health care facilities

9. Dentist Jobs by US Region: Northeast - $136.7K Middle Atlantic - $135.5K South - $127.1K Midwest - $129.9K West - $133.8K Median Salaries Staff Nurse - RN Jobs by US Region: Northeast - $63.1K Middle Atlantic - $61.4K South - $57.7K Midwest - $59.1K West - $64.5K Median Salaries Pharmacist Jobs by US Region: Northeast - $103.7K Middle Atlantic - $105.3K South - $98.6K Midwest - $99.5K West - $105.5K Median Salaries Physical Therapist Jobs by US Region: Northeast - $70.1K Middle Atlantic - $70.2K South - $67.2K Midwest - $66.9K West $71.0K Median Salaries

10. Kelley Moseley Dr. PH Professor and Director Program in Health Administration Texas Woman's University http://www.twu.edu/hs/h- hca/faculty/moseley.asp Dr. Moseley is a Professor of Health Administration and serves as Program Director. He holds a Master's Degree in Business from George Washington University and a Doctorate in Public Health from the University of Texas, School of Public Health. He has been a professor, practitioner and consultant in Health Services Administration internationally since 1970.

11. Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. He is using biomedicine to work toward early detection of heart attack risk Founder of the Computational Biomedicine Lab. Research interests include biomedical image analysis, modeling and simulation, computational biomedicine, biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition.

12.  Though we are behind the scenes….  We are the Heroes of the Health Care Team  Solving Today’s Medical Mysteries.

13. Dr. Darrick Castleberry, D.D.S. Diamond Dentsistry http://www.diamonddentistry.com Caroline K. Odette, O.D. Eye Excellence www.eyeexcellence.com Dr. Mohamed Sabbahi, PhD, PT, ECS Dr. Kruger Peoples, D.D.S. Diamond Dentsistry Lillian W. Orson, MD River Oaks Imaging

14. Jim Van Hooser Cypress Creek EMS Camille Williams Crdentia Healthcare Staffing Jill Grunden St. Joseph Radiology Associates