Northside Healthcare Explorers

The students were invited to an informational night, where there were about 225 students attending at Northside Hospital.  Information was distributed about this program. Through an application process, with an essay 28 students of the 225 were selected to participate in the program. AHS had 10 students selected of the 28.  Students will experience different areas of the hospital, guest speakers from all of the below listed fields, and hands on exercises. Students will be working with physicians, nurses and medical technologists from many different specialty fields.
Robotic Surgery
Cardiology
Radiology
Laboratory
Radiation Oncology
Women's' Services

The 3 hospital locations include: Northside Alpharetta, Northside Hospital Atlanta, and Northside Hospital Forsyth  The above pictures were from our first night of the program.  We visited the Radiology Dept at Alpharetta High School. On October 26th, we will have our second night and we will be visiting the laboratory at Northside Hospital Forsyth, students will be meeting laboratory technologists and hands on experience of discovering their own blood type.

The students are:Julia Behrend, Cheyenne Middlebrooks, Kaavaya Gudapati, Aryk Hennings, Alec Murphy,  Shengle Pai, Cameron Russell, Jordan Shambry, Ally Thornhill, Victoria Hosler