Featured Professor

Susan Price

Every successful career is like a journey: both require one small step after another to reach your goal.

Just ask Susan Price, a faculty member of in the health professions program. Her career began with an A.S. in radiography, but she didn't stop there. After moving to the Dayton area in 1987, Susan enrolled at Kettering College and graduated from the school's diagnostic medical sonography program in 1991. After earning her degree, she taught as a sonography clinical instructor, and she is a former director of the program. In 2008, Susan graduated from the University of Dayton with a doctoral degree in educational leadership, and she now teaches in health professions.

So it probably doesn't come as any surprise that Susan challenges her students as much as she challenges herself. That's simply because she has a tendency to take things a step further.

In some cases, a million steps further.

"MAXING OUT" THE ULTRASOUND
Reaching far beyond the Kettering College campus, Susan's actually been around the world teaching ultrasound techniques. She's traveled on numerous medical mission trips to Central America, South America and Micronesia to teach ultrasound techniques to health care professionals. She's shown how the comparatively inexpensive ultrasound machine can be used to diagnose multiple health conditions.

"These clinics simply can't afford multi-million dollar CAT scanners," notes Susan. "So it's essential for clinicians to realize how to maximize the tools they do have."

TO THE NEXT LEVEL
"Hospitals now realize that the more educated their employees are, the better patient caregivers they are," notes Susan. "Kettering College's bachelor's in health professions degree provides a pathway for people working in hospitals to further their education more easily."

"Our goal is to increase Kettering's educational service to people of Dayton and the graduates from other associate degree programs in the Miami Valley," she says. "I believe Kettering has the best degree completion program primarily because we look at the whole person."

THE NEXT STEP
She greatly encourages those who are thinking of going back to school to 'go for it.'

"The most common misperception I hear from people is 'I don't have enough time,'" she notes, "But five years from now, you're five years older, whether you went to school or not. So why not go?"

updated April 2011