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Brigham and Women's Hospital Recognizes Top Bunker Hill Community College Graduates

BOSTON, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two BHCC graduates of the College's Medical Radiography program - Anne Mulvihill and Alexandra Kyros - were voted "Outstanding Students of the Year" at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The 2011 graduating class of students, who completed their two-year clinical internship at the hospital, represented four colleges and one graduate school in the Boston area.

Mulvihill and Kyros each were acknowledged for their "outstanding clinical performance" at Brigham and Women's. Barry Hall, Director of Education in Radiology at the hospital, said that both students had excellent work histories and work ethics as well as being able to "image" patients correctly. "The students were very good academically and clinically very adept," said Hall. He also stated that this career path has excellent "earning capacity" with graduates often going on to specialize in MRIs or CAT scans.

Both Mulvihill and Kyros are now employed as radiologic technologists. Kyros works in the Department of Ambulatory Radiology at Brigham and Women's, and Mulvihill is employed at Children's Hospital Boston.

Kyros said she was "very honored" to have received this award, and praised the clinical internship program established by BHCC at Brigham and Women's. "Brigham and Women's really is a teaching hospital," she said. "I am now so well prepared that I can go on to any other facility."

"Both graduates of the program are excellent examples of the quality of students accepted each year," said Professor Donna Misrati, BHCC's Chair of the Medical Imaging Program.

Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls approximately 13,000 students on two campuses and at four satellite locations. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in Massachusetts. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of BHCC's students are women. The College also enrolls more than 700 international students who come from more than 90 countries and speak 75 different languages.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Colleen Roach
Executive Director of Communications & Marketing
Bunker Hill Community College
250 New Rutherford Avenue
Boston, MA 02129
Phone: (617) 228 2177; Email: caroach@bhcc.mass.edu

SOURCE Bunker Hill Community College