Every other year the Counseling Office and Alumni Relations Office host Career Day for juniors and seniors. This year, Bethany Cooper, a corporate recruitment and talent management coordinator for FNC, Inc. in Oxford, Miss., presented the keynote talk. Her presentation was followed by track sessions featuring medical (physician, nurse practitioner, physical therapist, and physician assistant) and non-medical careers (data analyst, engineer, financial planner, and software developer/computer engineer). Speakers were Brad Antici, director of strategic pricing and analysis at Butler Snow LLP; Ryan Jones ’08, an electrical engineer with Ergon, Inc; Maury Breazeale ’98, a financial advisor with KTB Wealth Partners; Phil Ethridge ’97, product engineer with Bomgar Corporation; Lindsey Batte McMullan ’96, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at UMMC; Ann Fowler Purcell ’01, CFNP, nurse practitioner for women’s services at St. Dominic; Kristen Kennedy Nations ’95, PT, PRN Therapist at St. Dominic; and Carly Stegall Yelverton ’07, physician assistant at Mississippi Sports Medicine. The JAA provided refreshments.
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