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Geneva offers graduate program in cardiovascular technology
This fall, Geneva College will launch the first cardiovascular technology (CVT) graduate degree program in the nation. Through a partnership with INOVA-Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, Geneva students can earn a master of science degree in cardiovascular sciences.
Cardiovascular technologists work directly with cardiologists to perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in laboratory settings. Their assistance has become vital in the growing trend toward non-surgical solutions for cardiovascular diseases.
“The burden on cardiologists and their support staff will only increase as the baby boomer generation ages and cardiovascular disease continues to be among the leading killers in our nation,” says Dr. Daryl Sas, chair of Geneva’s Department of Biology.
For the past 30 years, Geneva and INOVA have offered a bachelor of science degree in CVT. The US News and World Report recently ranked the cardiology unit 21st out of 1,500 hospitals in the nation, and Geneva students graduating from the program have experienced a very high rate of job placement.
Geneva’s new graduate-level program offers training in electrophysiology, which deals with the insertion of pacemakers and laser surgery on the electrical system of the heart. These procedures are in high demand, yet there are no professional programs devoted to formal training in this area of CVT. Geneva’s M.S. program is designed to meet this need.
Geneva faculty member selected to teach in Rome
When Geneva kicks off its first semester in Rome, Dr. Lynda Szabo will be on location to head up the program. With the city and much of Italy as a classroom, she will guide students on a journey through the foundations of Christianity, art, literature, architecture, philosophy and music.
A professor of English at Geneva, Szabo was in the middle of her sabbatical when she saw the faculty position for the Rome Program on Geneva’s Web site.
“Things had been happening for well over a year that made me yearn for a life of wholeness—for teaching opportunities that would allow me to be creative and craft a learning community,” she says, and Rome offered just such opportunity. “Very infrequently in my life have I felt a powerful call that said this is you—this is you.”
Although her primary field of instruction is literature (American and women’s literature, as well as Christianity and literature), Szabo has also taught in the humanities and led travel courses to England, France and Italy.
“I love my subject, but most of all I love teaching,” she says. “It’s a little bit of a miracle every time you do it. It’s always a surprise.”
With classes, student quarters and her own private residence all located in the same facility, this teaching experience will be a new one for Szabo. “The lines are crossing between living and learning,” she says. “We'll be eating together, worshiping together, looking at the same things and reading the same books together. Faculty in the American system now just don't get to do that.”
As she prepares to help build a living-learning community in Rome, Szabo looks forward to the unique opportunities that lie ahead. “You can read books or look at slides on these places all your life, but there is such value in that direct encounter—with the art object and with the city. It changes your perspective.”
Szabo will keep in close communication with her colleagues at Geneva, but also plans to make connections with new friends and neighbors in Rome. “Rome is a neighborhood,” she says, “and I want to make it my home for the time I'm there.”
For more information about Geneva in Rome, click here.
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