{"id":745,"date":"2022-06-24T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/?p=745"},"modified":"2023-01-04T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:34:43","slug":"get-to-know-your-college-katie-prest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/2022\/06\/24\/get-to-know-your-college-katie-prest\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know your college \u2013 Katie Prest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your role and what does your work focus on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a senior financial analyst in the college, focusing on research grants, specifically University Strategic Fund (USF) and University Research Budget (URB).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where did you work before joining CMPH?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/seimjohnson.com\/\">Seim Johnson<\/a>, a Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm in Omaha, Nebraska as a healthcare consultant, focusing in accounting (consulting, tax, and, audit). I also worked as a nutrition rep for a supplement company based in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What journey brought you to this point in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My husband and I met in college in Louisiana (he played basketball, I played softball) but he is from Adelaide so we made the decision to move just before COVID-19 hit. After waiting for borders to open back up, we\u00a0arrived in Australia in March 2022 and I began work at Flinders about a month later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love about Adelaide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The thing I love about Adelaide is that it\u2019s always felt like home. It reminds me a lot of Omaha, aside from the hills and beach (Omaha is very flat). It also helps that it doesn\u2019t snow here\u00a0\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is something you love most about your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love seeing the work and research that others are doing. There are some really cool projects going on at the university.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could tell your younger self one thing, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listen to your gut, take the leap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you like to relax or spend your spare time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my spare time, I\u2019m either in the gym, at the basketball court, or chasing my 4-year-old and (almost) 2-year-old. I also really love surfing and cruising on my longboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What is your role and what does your work focus on? I am a senior financial analyst in the college, focusing on research grants, specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1726,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-get-to-know-cmph"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mph-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}