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Last March, when President Barack Obama signed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law, he began a process that will, over the next four years, pump money into research science. As the senior vice president and executive dean for Health Sciences at Howard University, Higginbotham looks at this boon to STEM students of all disciplines from multiple angles. Higginbotham is an engineer by training. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. The educator, researcher and ophthalmologist has a broad portfolio. She is responsible for Howard University Hospital, the College of Medicine, the College of Dentistry, the College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Health and the Health Sciences Library. And “Obamacare” excites her. A key component of Obama’s plan will be the uses of in- formation technology to streamline delivery care. Higginbotham foresees patients taking a microchip with their medical data anywhere in the country, then showing a doctor their medical history on a website. She says, “the marriage between informa-
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tion technology and healthcare is critical, user-friendly, confi- dential, and inexpensive.”
But are the job prospects really that good? Kip Cassino, vice president of research at Borrell Associates, thinks so. The media research firm tracks job openings based upon whether a job was created or someone left. In 2010, Cassino says 576,300 research science jobs (in predominately healthcare-oriented ca- reers) are projected to open up. This is all evidence that research science is opening up to a wide array of students and profession- als with varied interests.
The Projected Surge in Research Science Jobs Statisticians at the Department of Labor agree. Through 2014, the wage and salary employment of all industries com- bined will grow 14 percent. By contrast, growth is expected to leap 27 percent in the healthcare industry as a research science field. Labor also projects that “employment
growth...is expected to account for about 3.6 million new wage and salary jobs, 19 percent of all wage and salary jobs added to the economy over the 2004-14 period.”
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