Dave Blevins, MHA, CST/CSFA, FAST is from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he currently serves as the Clinical Coordinator and instructor for the Surgical Technology program at the University of Cincinnati. He has been a practicing Surgical Technologist since 2005. Dave has worked hard to serve the profession since becoming an educator in 2014. A few of his contributions include authoring for The Surgical Technologist journal and AST textbook, he is an ARC/STSA Site Evaluator, and he has been a member of the AST Education and Professional Standards Committee since 2018.