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The technical staff includes one supervisor who is AALAS/LATG certified and one supervisor as maintenance foreman; 9 animal care staff (2 AALAS/LATG certified, 1 AALAS/LAT certified, 2 AALAS/ALAT certified and 4 senior animal caretakers); and one maintenance mechanic. An in-house training program for DCM technicians (as well as for technicians from VAMC, Memphis State, St. Jude, Schering Plough HCP, etc. as requested) is conducted every second year during regular working hours. The program is designed to assist the technicians in achieving AALAS certification. As technicians are certified at the various levels, they receive automatic promotions and pay raises. Additional in service workshops are conducted as necessary (e.g. on Herpes "B", employee relations, equipment use, operating procedures, etc.). A full computerized training log is available on all DCM employees. Full supervisory/technician reviews of DCM operating manual are done periodically including signature for certification of procedural knowledge.
 
 

*Ms. Lottia Jones, LATG - Coordinator of Operations, Relevant experience and training: certified laboratory animal technologist, AALAS, 1970. Twenty plus years of experience in laboratory animal colony husbandry/ management and administration. Ms Jones has primary responsibility for day to day colony/research/husbandry/staff training and facility support operations.

Coleman Facility
Ms. Cosundra Faye Price
Senior Animal Health Technician

Mr. Cedric Cobb
Senior. Animal Caretaker

Mr. Raymond Cobb, Jr.
 

Nash Facility
Ms. Sherry Frazier, LATG  - Laboratory Animal Supervisor.  Ms. Frazier began as a certified LATG at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. In 1996 she moved to St. Jude as a Sr. Lab Animal Tech, eventually progressing to Animal Husbandry Supervisor. Sherry brought her expertise to DCM in July of 2001.

Ms. Melinda McCarty
Senior Animal Health Technician

Ms. Redaligunda Lester
Assistant Laboratory Technician

Ms. Bertina Nichols
Senior Animal Caretaker
 

Ms. Alicia Zavelli
 

Ms. Lou Jackson
 

Ms. Bonnie Davis
 
 

Mr. Malcom Beard
Maintenance Mechanic

Mr. Carl Briscoe
Maintenance Mechanic

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