Dublin graduate Brock Weems came across a job in the medical devices industry by chance. Through years of hard work and dedicated study, he’s turned that chance discovery into a successful, decades-long career.
Weems graduated from Dublin High School in 2007. He earned his Associates from Tarrant County College, and then his Bachelors in Psychology from Tarleton. After college, he was considering law school, but decided against it. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, so I took a road trip cross-country, and took a break,” he said.
When Weems returned to Texas, a chance meeting set him up for a long and fulfilling career. “I went to my friend’s kid’s first birthday party, and his sister was the regional manager for a medical device company,” he said. “She was looking to hire someone at an entry level position in her division, which was reprocessing used medical devices. I was like, ‘Well, why not?’” Weems applied for the job and got it, and started his career in the medical device industry in 2014. “Once I got my foot in the door and started to learn more and study, I just kind of fell in love with the whole industry,” he said.
For the first few years he worked mostly in DFW and East Texas, and then switched from working on used medical devices to working in sports medicine orthopedics.
That job took him to Palo Alto, CA, where he worked as territory manager. Beyond device sales, his job included training surgeons and medical professionals to use the devices, he trained surgeons at Stanford as well as in Chicago at the Orthopedic Learning Center.
Teaching surgeons might sound intimidating, but over time Weems grew to really enjoy it. “I’m from a small town, and I never thought that I would even be in this industry and doing what I do. But the more you learn and the more you get into it, you just realize, like, we’re all in it together,” he said. “They’re just normal people, and it’s cool to be someone that they trust.”
“Training surgeons is honestly a lot of fun, because healthcare is always changing; products are always changing,” he said. “So they really need reliable people to lean on to know their stuff.”
During his time in California, Weems switched fields again within the medical device industry, this time to facial aesthetics. “I worked with some of the best plastic surgeons in the nation,” he said.
In 2021 he launched his own skin care line, called BNSKN. “It’s medical grade, so it’s very clean,” he said. “In this industry, people want to charge a lot of money for a product, and so I just saw a need and created my own line, and I cut the cost. It’s still the same high quality product, just at a more affordable cost for everyone.”
Weems still works with plastic surgeons as a senior surgical rep, but in the past three years has been focusing on reconstructive surgery for patients going through breast cancer. For the past three years he’s been based in Denver working for a large medical device company, and his job is to work with cancer plastic surgeons in the Colorado region.
“My surgeons, they’re very busy with their days, so my job really is to support them with what they need,” he said. “I read studies into all products available in the market, and provide them with science, facts, and the information that they need to make an educated decision.”
Over his years in the medical field, Weems has felt the need for change in the health insurance system, and hopes to find a position in the future where he can help make that change. “I don’t really know what it looks like, but I’d like to try to change how insurance works and reimbursements for healthcare, because it’s just very shiesty,” he said. “I would like to see a less corrupt system.”
When Weems isn’t working he’s often out enjoying the Colorado outdoors. “I camp, hike, ski and do yoga,” he said. He travels frequently, and enjoys running Spartan races and half marathons. His career in the medical field has kept Weems passionate and informed about health, and he works hard to stay healthy and eat clean.
He also enjoys charity work. “I work with the homeless shelter and attend a lot of charity events,” he said. “I’m very passionate about giving back to my community.”
Weems splits his time between Colorado and Dublin, where he’s done some house flipping work. “I love my hometown, and I’m still very involved,” he said. “I feel like the more good you do, the more good you get back. I want to make [Dublin] better. There’s a lot of run down properties, and I like to try to get them and just make them nice and not charge too much. I work with people and see what they can afford, and just try to be a good landlord.”
Weems’ mother and stepfather, Nancy and Danny Williams, live in Dublin, and he has several other family members in the area. His mother, Nancy, has been a great source of inspiration for Weems.
“I grew up mostly with a single mom, and just watching how hard she worked, and knowing you have to work hard to succeed [was inspiring],” he said. “She used to clean the city hall when we were kids, and she would take us with her at nights. She held multiple jobs and just worked really hard.”
Weems’ advice to Dublin graduates is to believe in themselves. “Don’t compare your journey to someone else’s,” he said. “We all have our different highs and lows at different times. I’ve always tried to applaud my friends when they’ve been succeeding and maybe at that time I wasn’t, and then whenever I’m in a good spot, maybe they’re not, they’re always applauding me. So, don’t compare your journey, keep good company and believe in yourself.”
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