Tiffany Nicole Dabney, RMA, AAS, BSHSc

I've always been a nurturer since I was a little kid, caring for people and things like my Barbie dolls and teddy bears. When I was about 12 years old, my father's sister became very ill and developed stage 4 kidney failure. She came home from the hospital with skilled nursing care needs, including drain changes in her arm. Her son wasn't comfortable with blood and medical procedures, but I just had a thing for nurturing people. At 12, I was literally doing wound care and not thinking twice about it - I just knew I had to take care of her. That was the moment I had a calling for being in the medical field. I started in healthcare in 2005 as an admin, then became a certified medical assistant in 2007, and advanced to office manager in 2016. My main expertise is as a patient care relationship coordinator - I have a way with patients, they just click with me. I can literally turn a sad patient into the happiest person by the time they leave the office. In 2018, I was diagnosed with a meningioma on the front part of my brain and had to have a craniotomy completed in March of 2019. Now I'm medically cleared and a brain tumor survivor. To accomplish all this after that is just remarkable. I'm graduating next Thursday from Liberty University with my Bachelor's of Science in Health Sciences, which feels like a tremendous achievement given everything I've overcome.