Back row, from left: Vik Bhatia, Michael Johnson, Sue Fields, Terry Hogue (Instructor), Christine Ichim, Kenny Higa, Hoang Pham. Front row, from left: Tonya Petty, Ina Reichel, Mary Gross, Gaby Fuentes-Creollo, Mabel Fong, Marissa Smithwick.

Three individuals from the Biosciences Area were among a dozen employees to complete Emergency Medical Technician Basic (EMT-B) training to join Berkeley Lab’s volunteer Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT). The training, provided by Protective Services, comprised more than 170 hours of classroom instruction, hands-on demonstrations, ambulance ride-alongs, and testing. Congratulations to Gaby Fuentes-Creollo, Barrier Facility Manager at Biosciences Operations at Berkeley, Christine Ichim, a postdoctoral scholar in Mina Bissell’s lab in Biological Systems & Engineering (BSE), and Hoang N. Pham, a technical affiliate working with Abby Dernburg in BSE.