On Monday, Sept. 8, more than 300 students, faculty and staff participated in the Alumni Association’s second
Eyes on Alumni event, a luncheon and panel discussion that encouraged interaction among current students,
faculty and alumni and allows students to learn about career paths and “life after graduation.”
After a lunch of subs, chips and cookies in the student center, five alumni shared their experiences in a one-hour panel discussion. Panel participants included five outstanding alumni:
Rebecca Kronauge, nursing ’82, is a practice administrator for Acute Care Consultants, where she is responsible for the business aspects of the practice. Kronauge has a master’s
in health care administration from Central Michigan University and was named the National Medical Manager of the Year by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management and Kettering College of Medical Arts Alumna of the Year in 2007.
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Panelist Rebecca Kronauge,
nursing '82 |
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Panelist Bonnie Peebles,
medical sonography '06
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Bonnie Peebles, medical sonography ’06, is pursuing her Master of Business Administration in health care administration from Southern Adventist University and works in the Echo Lab at Kettering Medical Center and Sycamore Medical Center.
Merle Peterson, radiologic technology ’71, is director of medical imaging for Kettering Medical Center and Sycamore Medical Center. Peterson has a master’s in management and human resource development from National-Louis University and was awarded the Nycomed Amersham Award of the AHRA, the Association for Medical Imaging Management, for outstanding contributions to the field of radiology. He was named the Kettering College of Medical Arts Alumnus of the Year in 2008.
Glenda Updyke, physician assistant ’98, is a physician assistant in trauma at Miami Valley Hospital. Her experience includes serving on the abdominal transplant program in liver transplant at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and in thoracic surgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center. She earned a master’s in medical science with an emphasis in surgery from Alderson Broaddus College.
Suzanne Coleman, nursing ’71, was the panel’s moderator. Coleman is director of the office of research and the Wallace-Kettering Neuroscience Institute at Kettering Innovation Center with the Kettering Health Network. She has more than 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals and recently earned her doctorate in health care administration from Warren University. Coleman was named the Kettering College of Medical Arts Alumna of the Year in 2006.
