National search begins for new PHSC president The Laker/Lutz News Staff Report
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With Katherine Johnson set to retire next June, the Pasco-Hernando State College trustees board has launched a national search for who would become the fourth president of the 42-year-old institution. During a September meeting, the board contracted with Myers McRae Executive Search and Consulting of Macon, Georgia, to help in the search. Ed Blommel, a trustee at the college, is leading the search committee. Blommel hosted the first president search screening committee meeting Oct. 28 in New Port Richey, telling the committee and Myers McRae that “we have an incredibly important job to do.” “We’ve hit home runs with our first three presidents,” Blommel said, according to a release. “Now we want to hit a grand slam. We need a president to build on the
progress we’ve made, and lead us into the next era.” The Myers McRae representatives outlined a presidential search recruitment strategy, providing a timeline and details on the committee’s role and responsibilities related to the search. The committee is comprised of a cross-section of 30 community leaders, current and former college and foundation board members, student leaders, alumni, and college employees. From an initial pool of qualified applicants, the board will interview a slate of candidates based on the recommendations of the screening committee.The goal is to select a new leader by spring, so that he or she can begin July 1. The application and nomination deadline for prospective candidates is Jan. 22. Nominations and applications can be submitted directly to phsc@myersmcrae.com.
Kristen Kova stands outside Land O’ Lakes High School where she is a sophomore and is interested in pursuing a career in a medical field. Right now, she’s leaning toward becoming a physician’s assistant or pursuing nursing because she wants time to have a family.
Sophomore chosen for national medical leadership conference By B.C. Manion
deafness in one ear and blindness in one eye. “I spend a lot of time being there for him and taking care for him,” she said. “I think that’s something God wants me to do.” Initially, Kova thought she wanted to pursue a career as a surgeon. But now she’s reconsidering, and instead may direct her energies into becoming a nurse or a physician’s assistant. She wants to be involved in medicine, but Kova also would like a family, she explained. So she’s not sure she wants to commit so much of her life to pursue that goal. Despite that shift, Kova’s glad she was selected to attend the conference. “It was pretty motivational,” she said. One of the speakers was Jack Andraka, who helped develop a new diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer when he was just 15. “He was amazing,” Kova said, adding that unlike how other kids would enjoy the summer, Andraka spent his time researching proteins online. Kova couldn’t stay for the third day of the conference because she had classes back home. “I couldn’t miss school because I had an AP psyche test,” she said Kova.
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Kristen Kova isn’t even sure how she was selected. But when she got the chance to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders convention in Washington, D.C., the 15-year-old didn’t look back. The Land O’ Lakes teenager traveled by car with her mother Jennie, and her brother Ryan, to the conference, over the weekend of Nov. 14, and found a packed agenda at the conference. “They had a lot of cool speakers that were very influential,” said Kova, a sophomore at Land O’ Lakes High School. Kova has had an interest in medicine since he was quite young, but found a documentary showed at the convention — “Code Black”— to be “really eye-opening.” It depicts the challenges faced by Los Angeles County Hospital trying to provide care, where patients waited for hours by a staff buried in bureaucracy. Some patients had to go to work, so they left the hospital without being seen, while others died. Kova said her interest in medicine probably stems from being around her father’s medical challenges. Rex Kova is disabled and has a variety of medical issues, including
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