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Betty Baltes-Spring
Betty Baltes-Spring is a Certified
Medical Assistant who holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from
Wright State University. Employment at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus,
Ohio, introduced her to the healthcare industry. She worked in the Education
Department and as their Volunteer Coordinator. Next, she moved into the health
insurance industry. After 9 years of employment, this company downsized. Dr.
Raymond E. Barker, Cardiology and Internal Medicine, was her salvation from this
unemployment situation. She started working in an administrative capacity but
the clinical side intrigued her. She completed the Medical Assistant Diploma
program at Columbus ParaProfessional Institute and passed the Medical Assistant
Certification Examination. When Dr. Barker retired, she became a full time
Medical Assistant Instructor at Ohio Institute of Healthcare Careers and worked
as their Medical Assistant Placement Coordinator. Primary caregiver
responsibilities for a family member brought her from the city of Columbus back
home to the farm. Many kindnesses and generous acts by these home town people
motivated her to seek an avenue to repay them. She found the medium to do this
to be through the students she instructs in Medical Terminology, MED 120 and MED
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 My name is
Judi Boyd, and as a former Edison student it is great fun to be
back. I began my career at Amos Press, where I worked in the
Advertising Department for Linn's Stamp News. I then moved to Dayton
to take a position with the Kettering-Oakwood Times and completed my
bachelor's degree at Wright State. I later moved to take a position
in sales with a graphic arts company before returning to the area to start
my own desktop publishing business in 1990.
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Melody Brown
has an Associates Degree in Applied Science (Health Information Technician).
Melody is certified by the American Health Information Management Association as
a Registered Health Information Technician. Melody Brown has worked in Medical
Records for 17 years in many different areas and worked as a coder for 11
years. Melody currently is a Supervisor of the Outpatient Coding at a local
hospital. She also is the Trauma Registrar at that facility. Melody has been
teaching at Edison for about 2 1/2 years. During that time she has taught
Medical Insurance and Coding for 3 semesters, Medical Office Procedures for 2
semesters and Medical Terminology for 2 semesters. Melody comments that she
"enjoys teaching at Edison and plan to continue teaching. I really enjoy the
students and helping them".
Melody has 2 beautiful children, Amanda 11 and Evan 7 and is involved in a lot
of activities with them such as hockey, baseball, soccer, and figure skating. |
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 Margaret Glenn has taught business education
classes for the past 32 years. She has taught the following Edison
courses: Business Writing, Document Processing, Superwrite, Shorthand,
Medical Terminology, Medical Office Applications, and Office Procedures.
Margaret earned her Masters in Education
from Wright State University. She is also an adjunct faculty member
for the Workforce Education Center at Wright State University.
Over the years, she has worked in medical,
legal, and corporate offices. Her professional memberships include
Association for Career and Technical Education --National Life Membership,
Ohio Vocational Association --Life Membership, Business Education Division
(State Secretary --1997-1999), and Ohio Business Teachers Association.
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 Michele C. Larger-Curry
M.S., R.N.
is a graduate of Indiana University and Wright State University. She has been in the
nursing profession for 30 years with expertise in psychiatric nursing, medical-surgical,
and cardiac nursing. Michele has been in the teaching profession for nine years.
She is presently studying for clinical nurse specialist certification in the Fall
and plans to start her doctorate work, majoring in adult education in the upcoming year.
For the past four years, Michele has been conducting research on the
characteristics of academic performance in relationship to test anxiety, self esteem,
locus of control and self reporting. Michele is also very active in
computer/informational literacy programs and has designed several websites for the Indiana
University School of Nursing, East Campus Nursing Division. She remains active in
promoting computer literacy, facilitating learning with students by providing an active
learning environment for the adult college student. |
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Lynn Mullen
Lynn Mullen, CMT, has an Associates
Degree of Applied Science (Medical Secretary) from Clark State Community
College. She became certified by the American Association for Medical
Transcription in 1995. She is a self-employed MT and works at home via the
internet for hospitals and a private neurology group. She has served as a review
board member for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a medical resource publishing
company. She teaches medical transcription here at Edison and enjoys getting out
and interacting with students and faculty as a change from her normal daily
routine. |
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