May WSBA Member Meeting & Educational Class (Part 2 of 2)

HTM Roundtable:

COVID-19 Response, Staff and Student Impacts, and HTM Future

Facilitated by: Steve Ellithorpe, executive director of clinical engineering, Providence. Steve is a certified healthcare technology manager and certified biomedical equipment technician, and a former president of the Washington State Biomedical Association.

Panel members: Ian Wayman (Swedish Health Services/Seattle, WA), John Stuivenga (Common Spirit Health/Tacoma, WA), Nick Sumner   (Providence/Spokane, WA), Ben Roberts (North Seattle College), Steve Wilson (Spokane Community College), Christine Meier (GE Healthcare), and Chris DeHart (Agiliti).

Panel discussion topics include: 

1. Service, equipment and supply chain impacts of COVID-19 and associated staffing impacts;
2. Current/near term staffing and how it correlates to current and future technical school student volumes;
3. Student and staffing recruitment and career visibility.