John Millett: From AS Degree to CEO of One of America's Fastest-Growing Companies - Santa Fe College
When John Millett enrolled in Santa Fe College’s Nuclear Medicine Technology program, he did not intend to start his own mobile cardiac imaging business. “I thought I would take a job in a lab,” says Millett, now the owner and president of Nuclear Medicine Professionals, Inc. “I moved from Tampa to go to Santa Fe College because it has one of the best nuclear medicine programs in the country. “I took a tour at Shands Hospital, and when I walked into the Nuclear Medicine Lab, they were doing a bone scan on a patient and it looked like something from the future,” Millett said. Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of low-level radioactive material to diagnose diseases and determine their severity. Nuclear medicine technologists help doctors and patients by providing therapy, analyzing biologic specimens and creating images of body organs. Hard work reaps rewards Millett, motivated by his family responsibilities, was driven to be a top performer in the nuclear program at Santa Fe College. As he neared the end of his two-year program, he started making calls to people in Florida with a radioactive materials license looking for work. The person who hired me said, ‘If she’s a Santa Fe College graduate, she must be good. Source: news.sfcollege.edu
