Cardiac Imaging

In 2006, the seed for Cardiac Imaging to become a routine clinical rotation for the CenLa campus sprouted from the personal connection and interest of one student. Upon completion of this extended rotation in cardiac imaging, this graduate chose to accept a position with a Shreveport Cardiology group. After a few years away, this graduate returned to RRCM and was immediately given a position in the cardiac department. Since this time, he has gone even further in his training to become the PACS Specialist for the Cardiac Department.

With our first experience with the Cardiac department being such a great success, future students were given the opportunity to experience this type of advanced imaging as a routine clinical rotation. From this beginning, our program has had many students elect to spend their final semester in Cardiac Imaging and upon graduating, all have been offered the opportunity for employment. Since its inception as an approved clinical rotation, our program has had seven students chose cardiac imaging as their specialty. Of these seven students, five are currently employed in the Cardiac Catheterization Department at Rapides Regional Medical Center. The other students elected to accept cardiac imaging positions in other medical facilities that were more suitable to their current geographical locations.

With employment offers to all that have completed this specialty training, along with two others that did not specialize, but are currently working in this department, this is a huge accolade to the quality product (graduates) our program produces. Several of these graduates have been given advanced training by local interventional cardiologists and are now performing much more complex procedures. We are so proud to know that our program along with the cardiac department supervisor Mrs. Debra Allen at RRMC have assimilated such a great group of cardiac imaging specialists. We are proud to know that these alumni who work in a very high volume department still find time to give back to the program by offering support and teaching current students in our program. With student number nine currently in this specialty, our influence and presence in providing the cardiac imaging needs of the CenLa area will continue to flourish. We would like to acknowledge by name this team of cardiac imaging specialists who we as a program are in-credibly proud to call our alumni: Justin Tibbett (2006), Jacie Harris (2008), Kady Cart (2009 & 2012), Daniel Azua (2010), Alicia Cranston (2010), Lyssa Littleton (2012), Landa Johnson (2013), Brandon Hughes (2013) and Clinton Whitehead (2014-Graduating Senior).