Dr. Austin has been teaching in the Medical Laboratory Science Department at Farmingdale State College since 2010 and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor. She is responsible for the development and delivery of all Clinical Microbiology content and also teaches Laboratory Research and Education. She has in the past, facilitated the Blood Bank and Immunology Laboratory courses. She maintains her expertise through continued practice as a per diem NY State Licensed Clinical Laboratory Technologist where her experience spans over 35 years.
Dr. Austin is an active member at both the national and local levels of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), The American Society for Clinical Pathology(ASCP), and The American Society for Microbiology(ASM).
Inter-professional Education fuels her current research interests.
Dr. Austin is an active member at both the national and local levels of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), The American Society for Clinical Pathology(ASCP), and The American Society for Microbiology(ASM).
Inter-professional Education fuels her current research interests.
Courses Taught
Clinical Microbiology I, Clinical Microbiology II, Clinical Microbiology III, Laboratory 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.
