Maureen Desmond is a 2019 grad of the Joint Biomedical Engineering Program at UNC and NC State University. Maureen joins Allie and Grace to discuss her role as a Field Clinical Specialist for Cardiac Device Implants at Boston Scientific. 

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Zane Kaiser graduated from the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State University in 2019. He is currently a Post Market Development, Nonconformance Engineer at Cook Medical, a privately held, global medical device manufacturer. 

Zane joins Allie and Grace to talk about his role, and the benefits of exploring industry jobs before medical school.

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Naji Husseini is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at NC State University and UNC Chapel Hill. 

Naji joins the show to discuss what his responsibilities are as BME teaching faculty, what he enjoys, and how he became a teaching professor - he also talks about how you can start building a career to teach BME at university yourself. Naji goes on to draw the distinctions and overlaps between teaching faculty and academia, and how this may differ from a career in industry.

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Join Allie and Grace as they chat with Lena Gandevia! Lena graduated with a bioengineering and biomedical BS from the Thayer school of engineering at Dartmouth in 2019 and Allie graduated from the UNC/NCSU joint biomedical engineering BS program in 2019. Lena and Allie dive into the details of their first jobs in an international rotation program, the Halma Future Leaders Program.

Read more about the Halma Future Leaders Program: https://www.halma.com/our-people-and-culture/careers/future-leaders

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Meet our co-host! Grace Cronin is an Automation Engineer at Biogen after graduating from the UNC/NCSU BME program in 2019. Grace and Allie chat about what this role means and how it fits into the biotech scene.

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Grace and Allie discuss preparing for interviews from the BME perspective, ending the interview, and red/green flags to watch for during the interview. 

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Jazmin McCorkle is an Associate Drug Product Investigator at Pfizer. She graduated from the UNC/NCSU BME program in 2017, and graduated with her Masters in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 2019.

Jazmin joins Allie and Grace to talk about what it means and what it takes to be a Drug Product Investigator.

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Grace and Allie discuss finding, practicing, preparing for, and succeeding at engineering career fairs.

A how-to on planning, networking, and following up. 

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Jacquelyn Davi is a Senior Strategy Analyst at Triangle Insights Group, LLC, a strategy consulting group for life sciences organizations. Seh

Jacquelyn joins Grace and Allie to talk about her career progression and provide context for what consulting is like with a BME background. 

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak

Alyssa Burke is a Validation Engineer at Barry-Wehmiller Design Group and was previously a Bioprocess Engineer at Novartis Gene Therapies. She is also a 2019 grad of the Joint Program of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State. Alyssa joins Allie and Grace to talk about industry vs. research internships and key takeaways. 

For more information on The BME Grad Podcast, visit the Joint Department of BME at UNC and NC State's website: bme.unc.edu/home/news-events/the-bme-grad-podcast/

Connect with or reach out to Host, Allie Mitzak, on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-mitzak