Tammy became a Certified Nursing Assistant in 1997 where she worked as a CNA in Hawaii before she moved to Washington State and completed her Phlebotomy Certification and Clinical Lab Assistant programs at Edmonds Community College in 2007. She worked in Federal Service for many years as a Phlebotomy Technician and Lab Assistant before she became the Phlebotomy Trainer and Education Coordinator for the Client Services Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the hospital where she worked in Seattle. Tammy genuinely enjoys teaching the art of phlebotomy combined with compassion of patient care reminding her students that behind every sample is a real person.