UCS junior earns national title in medical careers competition

Stevenson High School medical careers student has earned the national title in a competition focused on the future of health care.

Junior Alyssa Polizzi was named the National Champion of the Veterinary Science event of the HOSA-Future Health Care Professionals National Leadership Conference in late June.

To win this event, Polizzi competed against the top three students from each state in a written knowledge test and demonstration of their skill in veterinary medical care. She is Stevenson’s first National Champion.

Eleven students from Utica Community Schools competed among 8500 students across America, Canada, Mexico and Italy at the national competition held June 24-27 in Anaheim, CA.

Dominque Johnson, also a junior at Stevenson, was another national award winner from UCS, placing in the top 30 of the Biomedical Laboratory Science Event.

The other students competing at the National Conference included: Kara Bradley, Jessica DeGrieck and James Calvin Montgomery from Stevenson High School, Rana Noori of Utica High School, and Kush Patel, Joe Nambiathusseril, Jamison Demaj, Albert George and Yunus Basheer of Henry Ford the II High School.

Students earned entry into the national competition after receiving top honors at a state conference.

This was the largest delegation to the National Conference since the reestablishment of HOSA at UCS in 2006.

HOSA is a national student organization of 120,000 members from 47 states. HOSA has over 3,200 secondary and post-secondary chapters, 76 of which are in Michigan. HOSA’s two-fold mission is to promote career opportunities in the health care industry and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. For more information about HOSA, go to www.HOSA.org.