Dustin Telford has been named the biomedical-equipment technician of the year by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Telford works for the George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
Telford is largely responsible for reorganizing the local Intermountain Clinical Instrumentation Society and is an advisor and adjunct instructor for a BMET program at Salt Lake Community College.
"Biomed is the fix for healthcare," Telford said. "I know of no other field that requires using ingenuity, flexibility, technical and engineering skills and medical knowledge while you provide service to patients, visitors and healthcare profes- sionals at a reasonable cost."
He received his award in late June at the association's annual conference in Washington, D.C.