Betty Ciesla, M.S.
Lecturer
Department of Biology
School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Morgan State University
1700 E. Coldspring Lane
Baltimore, Maryland 21251

MT (ASCP) SH 
Key G66
(tel) 443-885-4469
bciesla@jewel.morgan.edu

Biographical Sketch

As a native Baltimorean, I was educated in private religious schools for my secondary years. I chose to attend college at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science for the challenge and their superior record in training medical technology majors. I attended the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Medical Technology for my final intercept year and graduated in 1973. Marriage and children quickly followed, yet employment in the clinical laboratory through many shifts was a steady point in those early years. My career in education started in 1980 on a part time basis when I became a faculty member at the University of Maryland,Baltimore, Department of Medical and Research Technology. At that time it was called the Program in Medical Technology. I developed my teaching skills, adapted to the entirely new world of academics and began to imagine myself with a graduate degree. In 1986, I enrolled in the Professional Writing program at Towson State University and four years later graduated with an MS in Biomedical Communication. Pairing the degrees of medical technology and biomedical communication have empowered me to teach courses in Scientific Communication at three universities, to give national workshops in the subject and to partner with my Maryland colleagues in giving national workshops in Hematology and Coagulation. I am supportive of one of our professional organizations, the American Society of Clinical Pathology and through the Associate Member Section I have served as co-editor of two of their educational products (Tech Sample) and I was recently asked to be a corresponding member of the Program committee. I have been fortunate to win four teaching awards at University of Maryland and to be the recipient of the Excellent in Education award from the ASCP-Associate Member Section for 2000. Throughout my academic career, I have chaired recruitment committees, served as a collaborative grant writer, authored chapters in textbooks, written articles and developed educational strategies. I have been blessed with three beautiful daughters and an exceptional husband.

I consider teaching and education a vocation and one in which I am constantly striving to break down barriers and allow students to desire and then to aspire. It is my life's work.

Publications

1. Ciesla, B. Recognizing Thalassemias. ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals. March, 2000
2. Ciesla, B. Women and Bleeding Disorders. ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals. June 2000, internet publication
3. Doucette,L. Ciesla, BE. American Society of Clinical Pathologists, TECH SAMPLE PROGRAM , Phlebotomy Issues with the Neonate., Phelbotomy Series, 1999
4. Griffey, P. Ciesla, BE. American Society of Clinical Pathologists, TECH SAMPLE PROGRAM , Cross Training, Management and Education Series, pending, 1999.
5. Ciesla,BE.  American Society of Clinical Pathologists, TECH SAMPLE PROGRAM  Overwhelming Post-Splenectomy Infection, Case Study , G-12, 1998.