Courses Taught
Clinical Microbiology I, Clinical Microbiology II, Clinical Microbiology III, Research and Education.Education
- BS, Medical Technology, New York Institute of Technology, 1987
- MS, Medical Biology (Medical Microbiology), Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, 2009
- DHEd, College of Graduate Health Studies (Doctor of Health Education), A.T. Still University, 2019
Certificates & Licensures
- MLS(ASCP)CM, Medical Laboratory Scientist, American Society for Clinical Pathology, 12/01/1993
- Clinical Laboratory Technologist, New York State , 12/04/2006
- SM(ASCP)CM, Specialist in Microbiology, American Society of Clinical Pathology/American Society for Microbiology, 09/21/2021
Publications
- Stuart Chaskis and Rita Austin, Stains for light microscopy. in E. Goldman and L.H. Green (Eds.), Practical handbook of microbiology 4th ed., Boca Raton, Fl.: Taylor & Francis Group (2021), pp. 42-50.
- Rita Austin and Tonya Shearin-Patterson, The Genus Bordetella in E. Goldman and L. Green (Eds.), Practical Handbook of Microbiology 4th ed., Boca Raton, Fl.: Taylor Francis Group (2021), pp. 279-288.
- Rita Austin, Nurse Educator and Medical Laboratory Scientist: Assessing Knowledge and Attitude following an Inter-professional Intervention, AT Still University Proquest Dissertations Publishing, (22587) 2019.
- Kathleen Cino, Rita Austin, Cristina Casa, Christine Nebocat and Adele Spencer, Interprofessional ethics education seminar for undergraduate health science students: A pilot study, Journal of Interprofessional Care, 32(2) 2017, 239-241.
- Kathleen Cino, Rita Austin, Cristina Casa, Adele Spencer and Christine Nebocat, Self-Efficacy and Interprofessional Learning: An Exercise in Ethics for Health Science Students [Abstract], Clinical Laboratory Science, 29(2) 2016, 98.
