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Ann Chester, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Education Partnerships

Explore the success stories of WV Health Sciences & Tech Academy, contributing to improving healthcare in rural areas. Learn about programs, achievements, and influential figures shaping the future of healthcare workforce in West Virginia.

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Ann Chester, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Education Partnerships

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  1. Health Sciences & Technology Academy:  HSTA a WV Brain Gain BrainchildWest Virginia UniversityOctober 7, 2019 Ann Chester, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Education Partnerships Director, WV HSTA

  2. Since 1994 HSTA has helped improve WV health care as it trains an important and growing workforce.

  3. Structure and Flow Summer Camp 9th Graders Summer Camp 12th Graders Summer Camp 11th Graders Summer Camp 10th Graders 9th -12th grade afterschool clubs led by teachers Science Projects College Annual Symposium Community Service

  4. 37% African American • 46% Financially disadvantaged • 68% First in their families to go to college • 69% Female • 75% Rural • 9th-12th Graders

  5. Lindsay McIntosh JD, General Counsel Kanawha County Board of Education Summer Kuhn, MPH HSTA Community Research Leader Natalie Fraley, DVM Owner, Middletown Animal Clinic Andrew McDavid Co-owner, A&M Properties & Investments Stephanie Tyree JD Executive Director, WV Community Development Hub Jason Evans, Ph.D. Professor in Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Laboratory Medicine, WVU

  6. Health Care Infusion that Stays in Rural WV • Kelsie Cromwell, front desk in 2012, returned to school graduated as a lab technician. • Sierra Miller, PT assistant • Carrie Durham, Nurse • Katie Atkins, Radiology Tech • Candy Cochran, Nurse now works for Sr. Citizens Center behind the hospital • Sara Barbe, RN • Stephanie Hall, Nurse, works there on holidays. She is in med school.  • Crystal Hickman, MD, local physician Webster Memorial Hospital Photos taken Spring 2012 "Personally, it is such a HUGE comfort to our family to know that our best and brightest are there to care for us. I have experienced it many times with what are often life and death moments with XXX."

  7. Improving lifestyles in communities as 9th -12th graders • Improving BMI • Improving Cholesterol • Increasing activity levels • Increasing awareness of flu shots, vaping, opioid crisis, bullying, water quality problems. Markayla King, Minden, WV PCB’s

  8. Economic Gain • $30,000 more per year is the earning power of a HSTA grad than their highest earning parent • 77 Med and pre-med • 32 Medical assistants • 13 Dentistry • 301 Nursing • 44 Pharmacy • 101 Rehab • 156 Patient care • 22 Public and community health • 36 Health Care Administration • 175 Mental Health • 34 Radiology and related • 38 Speech Path and Audiology • 177 Biomedical Science – research and pre-health care majors • 238 STEM

  9. Let’s revive the American Dream using this HSTA model across every county in West Virginia.

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