Cadets Gain Clinical Laboratory Experience

Life Science Cadets Gain Clinical Laboratory Experience during the Madigan Army Medical Center Academic Individual Advanced Development (AIAD). Over the past few weeks, Cadets Gartrell Bowling ’20 and Elizabeth Huuki ’20, Life Science majors on the pre-medical track, worked in the Department of Clinical Investigation at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA. Under the supervision of the Department Chief, COL Richard Burney, and Drs. Nicholas Leronimakis and Christine Nadeau, the cadets were introduced to placenta perfusions, chlamydia research, and drawing blood and injecting mice in the animal facility. For the clinical portion of the AIAD, the cadets shadowed surgeons in the operating room and in clinics, and used robotic surgery instruments in the simulation lab.