PDC Panel – Leveraging Your Certificate: Insights on Career Growth and Professional Identity
How do you turn professional learning into career opportunities? Join us for a one-hour panel featuring certificate holders from our PDC programs as they share how they’ve applied their studies to advance their professional goals.
Date
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Location
Online
About the Event
Our panelists represent a range of backgrounds—from scientific consulting and veterinary writing to regulatory affairs and fiction editing. They will discuss how they’ve leveraged their non-credit certificates to strengthen their professional identity, connect with new networks, and pursue meaningful work.
Topics will include:
- Building professional connections.
- Presenting your credentials to employers and clients.
- Engaging in industry organizations.
- Strategies for ongoing growth in rapidly evolving fields.
Whether you’re exploring new directions, expanding your skill set, or simply curious how others have integrated their learning into their careers, this session offers valuable, real-world insight from professionals who have been in your shoes.
The panel will consist of four panelists and two moderators from the PDC Student Advisory Board.
- Kathy Adamson, DVM (Panelist)
- Morayo Adebiyi Uchendu, PhD (Panelist)
- Anurahda Bangaley, MSGH, CCRP (Panelist)
- Titus Burton (Panelist)
- Emily Genoese (Moderator)
- Karly Underwood (Moderator)
Speaking at the event
Kathy Adamson, DVM
PDC Student Advisory Board Member | Digital Content Manager, American Medical Writers Association
Dr. Kathy Adamson earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1993 and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. She completed a one-year small animal medicine and surgery internship at the North...
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Morayo Adebiyi Uchendu, PhD
PDC Student Advisory Board Member
Morayo Adebiyi Uchendu earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. In 2020, she founded a scientific consulting agency, providing support to biotechnology and medical service companies. She successfully collaborated across R&D, Product Marketing, Legal...
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Anuradha Bangaley, MSGH, CCRP
PDC Student Advisory Board Member | Regulatory Affairs Manager, University of Chicago
Anuradha Bangaley is a member of the Mentoring Committee for the Professional Development Certificates Student Advisory Board. She works as a Regulatory Affairs Manager in the oncology department at University of Chicago. She is a clinical research professional skilled in multi-trial management...
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Titus Burton
PDC Student Advisory Board Member
My name is Titus Burton. I am currently a middle school English teacher, an entrepreneur, a fantasy fiction writer, and manuscript editor with a Bachelor of Arts in English; previously attended George Mason University and University of Maryland Global Campus. More importantly, I am also a dad with...
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Emily Genoese
PDC Student Advisory Board Member
Emily Genoese is a healthcare communications professional in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri and a Master of Public Administration from American University in Washington, DC. Over the last ten years, Emily has held...
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Karly Underwood
PDC Student Advisory Board Member
Karly Underwood is currently enrolled in the Editing Certificate Program. Karly obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology, with a concentration in advanced research, from the University of South Florida. After earning her certificate in editing, she hopes to work as a freelance copyeditor...
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