Trailblazers.

The term describes a pioneer, or an innovator — someone who sees options and paths where few seem to exist. In fact, a Trailblazer can be someone who forges their own path, moving forward in a direction that may surprise others, because no trail seemed to be there in the first place at all.

Then again, those who blaze their own trails do so for other reasons; they do it to show us it can be done, and they do it so others can follow.

In this issue of Gateway Magazine, we’re celebrating Trailblazers — and by this, we mean those students who have used their Health Sciences degrees in an unconventional, but successful, way. You see, here in CHS we are the Gateway to the Health Professions, and as these alumni will tell you, their career possibilities are truly endless.

In these pages, you’ll see that each discipline is represented by a former student, someone who has gained notoriety in a field that may have surprised their peers and professors.

Like Tori Schaub, PhD, a speech pathologist who had to set up a telehealth program for her Louisville company. Or Vivian Lasley-Bibbs, who graduated from our Physician Assistant program, but now serves as the director of the Office of Health Equity (OHE) in the Kentucky Department for Public Health.

Then there’s Daniel Calixtro, who took his Medical Laboratory Science degree and became an account executive for Ortho Molecular Products.

The list goes on.

But we wish to take nothing away from our amazing students who are heading into incredible careers in more well-known fields. Without you, our College would not be the success that it is.

Instead, we want to use these stories to emphasize the vast opportunities we can provide. This is the College of Health Sciences — where your health career can begin.

And where you can blaze your own trail.