VGCC Radiography program head Bobby Austin in the program’s state-of-the-art lab on the college’s South Campus. (VGCC Photo)
Bobby G. Austin of Graham, N.C. was recently named program head for the Radiography degree program at Vance-Granville Community College. He brings many years of experience both as a radiologic technologist and as an educator to his new position.
Austin received his initial radiography training while serving in the United States Air Force from 1974 through 1978. He went on to earn two associate degrees from Austin (Texas) Community College (where he also served as an instructor), a bachelor’s degree from Southwest Texas State University, and a Master of Science degree in Radiologic Science from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Austin worked as a radiologic technologist and MRI/CT/nuclear medicine technologist in Texas before moving back to North Carolina to teach at Pitt Community College, where he was director of the Imaging program for eight years before becoming Radiography department head at Lenoir Community College in Kinston. He holds multiple certifications from the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists and is certified as a Basic Life Support instructor by the American Heart Association.
The Radiography program is based at VGCC’s South Campus, located between Creedmoor and Butner. The college’s two-year Radiography curriculum, which is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, prepares graduates to be radiographers, skilled health care professionals who use radiation to produce images of the human body. In addition to classroom and lab instruction offered at South Campus, students gain hands-on clinical experience at area hospitals, including Maria Parham Medical Center, Granville Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital and Franklin Regional Medical Center. Radiography encompasses many specialty areas, including nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, ultrasound, mammography, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
For more information, contact Bobby Austin at (252) 738-3517.