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“Health care has taken such a toll on everyone in the past couple of years that everything about the industry has changed, which really shifts my perspective on what I want to do in the future.”

“I decided to pursue X-ray my senior year of high school after a pretty bad bicycle accident,” said Jones. “I had to have multiple X-rays taken after the incident to ensure that nothing was broken, and the technologist who was performing the exams was so into her job. As I began asking her questions and getting answers, it intrigued me, so I decided to pursue it. I’m so glad I did.”

Summer Powers, B.S.R.S, ARRT R.T.(R), is from Jenkins, Kentucky, located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

U.S. Navy Senior Enlisted Advisor at the Nashville Military Entrance Processing Station also serves as a part-time radiologic technologist.

David Dacorro, who has been in the imaging field for seven years, is currently the radiology manager at U.S. Navy Hospital in Okinawa, Japan.

Bryan Burnside is the imaging director and patient experience champion at Merit Health Madison located in Canton, Mississippi.

Hilary Russell, radiology team leader at OhioHealth Marion General Hospital (MGH), has spent almost two decades in the imaging field – all at the same hospital. An Upper Sandusky, Ohio-native Russell, 39, began her career at MGH as a transporter while she was in X-ray school.

Garrison was hired by Banner Imaging as an ultrasound tech and, 12 years later, she is currently the associate ultrasound manager at Banner Imaging.