AAMI News recently highlighted the inaugural HTM Discovery Day event at AAMI eXchange 2025. TRIMEDX President of Clinical Engineering Rob Moorey and Site Manager Bryant Hawkins participated in the TRIMEDX-sponsored event, introducing high school students to the career possibilities within HTM. Rob and Bryant are featured in the AAMI News article.
High school students from the greater New Orleans area depended on the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on the first day of AAMI eXchange 2025. Their goal? To learn how they can pursue a promising career in healthcare technology management (HTM).
With breakfast generously sponsored by TRIMEDX, AAMI’s inaugural HTM Discovery Day served to introduce high school students to the healthcare technology management field and showcase its excellent career opportunities. The event kicked off with AAMI’s Danielle McGeary, vice president of HTM, providing an overview of the HTM field. HTM influencer and TRIMEDX site manager Bryant Hawkins joined Danielle, showcasing how biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs), clinical engineers, and other experts play a crucial role in ensuring hospitals and healthcare facilities are safer. Students then broke out into groups, visiting volunteer vendor and educator booths to handle real medical equipment, seeing how HTM professionals test and maintain devices, and discovering how technology directly impacts patient care. Students even had the chance to use virtual reality (VR) tools to walk through troubleshooting a device in a clinical setting, courtesy of extended reality development company NRVT Labs.
“Events like this are vital to the future of the healthcare technology management field. As our workforce ages, there is a growing shortage of skilled professionals in the industry, especially in roles like biomedical equipment technicians," said Rob Moorey, president of clinical engineering at TRIMEDX. Moorey shared his own career story with students, explaining how he discovered the HTM field only after dropping out of college and joining the U.S. military. His hope is that rewarding career paths such as healthcare technology management will be discovered more easily with educator, association, and industry support. "By introducing students to these career options early, we’re not just educating—we’re building a pipeline of passionate, capable talent who can step in and make a real difference in the future of health care. These are rewarding, impactful careers that many students may not have considered but offer incredible opportunities to work with cutting-edge technology and directly support patient care.”
The event also featured presentations and appearances from HTM influencers Jennifer Chester, Biomedical Equipment Technician at Crothall Healthcare and author of the ongoing Bella the BMET webcomic series, and Chace Torres, DFW Branch Manager of SPBS, Inc., who hosts the Bearded Biomed podcast and wrote the children’s book Ollie the Biomed.
Educator Loreal Ivory attended the event, chaperoning multiple student-fellows from the Next Level NOLA career bridge program. She explained that while some students had expressed interest in the HTM field before coming to AAMI eXchange, the majority were learning about the profession for the first time.
“I have some students interested in technology, others in healthcare careers, such as nursing… but we want to make sure students have exposure to different careers related to their interests that they wouldn't otherwise think about,” she explained. “Plus, we love to give students a chance to network with real professionals and get their first conference experience.”
Ivory plans to return to the eXchange expo hall tomorrow, bringing promising young professionals in tow.
Attendee Theodore Nottage II of the Public Hospital Authority came all the way from the Bahamas to attend eXchange 2025. He noted how impressed he was to see companies and educators coming together to support the HTM career pipeline.
Having learned from AAMI Fellow and ACCE founder Frank Painter while studying HTM in the U.S., Nottage returned to the Bahamas only to be disappointed in how few opportunities for HTM education are offered in his homeland. Inspired by what he saw at eXchange 2025’s HTM Discovery Day and now equipped with AAMI’s HTM in a Box resources, Nottage hopes to bring today’s spark for spreading the word about this crucial career path back home with him.