Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, is a comprehensive medical facility providing advanced programs in education and research that support the highest quality patient care. Campus activity is conducted in the Mayo Clinic Hospital and the interconnected Davis, Mayo and Cannaday buildings.

The ambulatory facilities provide clinical services ranging from primary to specialty care and advanced procedures. Mayo Clinic Hospital provides comprehensive inpatient services, including surgical and medical intensive care units, specialized solid organ transplant units, and advanced cardiac and neurosurgery facilities.

As a student, you’re assigned to clinicals in the Department of Radiology. You’re also assigned to clinical rotations in radiology departments at Mayo Clinic Primary Care at Jacksonville Beach, Gate Parkway, and St. Augustine. Throughout the duration of the program, you attend courses specific to radiography on the Florida campus.

The Radiography Program is coordinated and taught by the clinical, scientific, and technical staffs of Mayo Clinic. Faculty members are chosen for their commitment to teaching, as well as their clinical practice and research. Many have published and lectured extensively and are highly regarded in their fields.

You have direct access to these individuals throughout your training, giving you the opportunity to learn from experienced practitioners in radiography and radiology.

Myke Kudlas, M.Ed., R.T.(R)
Radiography Program Director

Myke Kudlas is the Radiography Program Director and establishes the program policies and procedures. Mr. Kudlas is responsible for curriculum planning, academic instruction, supervision, scheduling, and evaluation of students. He works with program staff to assure students acquire the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills needed to function as highly skilled radiographers upon graduation from the program. His teaching duties include many of the science courses throughout the program.

Prior to becoming a radiographer, Mr. Kudlas taught in private and public schools in Karawa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rochester, Minnesota.  After working at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, for several years, Mr. Kudlas helped start the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences Radiography Program in 2000 and served as its first program director. Mr. Kudlas took a position at the American Society of Radiologic Technologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2008 and worked for ASRT for 15 years before returning to his passion of working with students once again at Mayo Clinic. 

Mr. Kudlas is a passionate educator and has written several peer-reviewed articles on educational innovation in medical imaging. Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences named Mr. Kudlas its Outstanding Educator in 2005.

Mr. Kudlas received his Master of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of North Florida and is an alum of the Radiography Program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Joiel Woods, MPH, CPH, R.T. (R)
Radiography Program Clinical Coordinator
Instructor of Radiology

Joiel Woods is clinical coordinator of the Radiography Program. Ms. Woods organizes, directs, and evaluates the effectiveness of academic and clinical aspects of the Radiography Program. Joiel establishes clinical policies and procedures, and is responsible for curriculum planning, academic instruction, supervision, scheduling, and evaluation of students.

Prior to accepting this role, Ms. Woods was the clinical coordinator and radiology instructor at St. John’s River State College. Through this role, she facilitated the development of online and ground-based classes to improve student success. Ms. Woods was responsible for program coordination, safety regulations, financial budgeting, and culture survey assessment for the clinical sites in which students rotated.

Ms. Woods has built trusting partnerships with numerous hospital managers throughout the state of Florida. Her passion for radiology education is displayed through outreach events for potential students, she has participated in career fairs, and community advisory board committees.

Ms. Woods received her Master of Public Health degree from The University of South Florida in 2020.

Glenn Sturchio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physiology

Dr. Glenn Sturchio is the director of health physics for Mayo Clinic enterprise and the radiation safety officer for Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville supporting the use of radiation sources in the clinical, research, and education areas. In addition, he is an assistant professor at Mayo College of Medicine and Science. His teaching duties include a course in Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and a course in Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences.

Prior to Mayo Clinic, he worked in the radiation safety programs at Merck Research Laboratories (Rahway, NJ), AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), and the University of California (Davis, CA).

Dr. Sturchio is active in both the Health Physics Society and the American Academy of Health Physics, having held committee positions in both organizations. Currently, he is a director on the American Board of Health Physics. He is also a council member on the National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurement, as well as serving on their PAC-2 Committee on Operational Radiation Safety.

Dr. Sturchio received his Ph.D. from the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota and is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics.

Adam Rubin
Instructor of Radiology

Adam Rubin is a medical physicist assistant at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Rubin served as radiology clinical manager, where he supported the clinical and operational functions of the interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, CT, and medical physics departments. In this role, Mr. Rubin also supported all the quality, safety, and accreditation efforts of the radiology department. Prior to his role as a clinical manager, he was the supervisor of interventional radiology from 2013 to 2018. Mr. Rubin helped to build the Vascular Interventional Radiologic Technology Internship at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2010. He served as the program's first clinical instructor from 2010 to 2013 when he became the internship's program director. He served as program director until 2021.

Mr. Rubin began his career in interventional radiology after graduating from the Radiography Program at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2006. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Grand Canyon University with a major in leadership and advanced patient care in 2019. Over his career, he has been active in the educational aspects of interventional radiology. Mr. Rubin co-authored the American Society of Radiologic Technologist’s Vascular-Interventional Essentials program, released in 2016. He also served on the Association of Vascular Interventional Radiography’s Education Committee from 2017 to 2021 and helped to create the first AVIR Chapter in Jacksonville in 2018.

Christopher Gandia, R.T.(R)(C.T.)

Christopher Gandia is a registered technologist in computed tomography and a protocol specialist for the department in Computed Tomography. He is in charge of building special protocols requested by radiologists and maintaining routine protocols on the C.T. scanners to ensure images are acquired according to the radiologist's preferences and upkeep accreditation for Mayo Clinic. Mr. Gandia is coming on board to teach the Computed Tomography course in the Radiology program starting in 2023.

Mr. Gandia started his medical career in the U.S. Navy in 2003 with experiences in trauma, intensive care, infant/pediatric, and bariatric care. He transitioned to learning radiology and graduated from U.F. Health Jacksonville in 2013 in diagnostic x-ray and advanced his career in computed tomography in the same year. 

Course schedule: January through May (16 weeks)

Hours:

• Academic classes: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, daytime hours
• Clinical class: Tuesday and Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Course schedule: May through August (16 weeks)

Hours:

• Academic classes: Monday and Wednesday, daytime hours
• Clinical class: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Course schedule: August through December (16 weeks)

Hours:

• Academic classes: Monday and Wednesday, daytime hours
• Clinical class: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Course schedule: January through May (16 weeks)

Hours:

• Academic classes: Tuesday and Thursday, daytime hours
• Clinical class: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Clinical class: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 2:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. (two rotations)
• Clinical class: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. (one rotation)
• Clinical class: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (two rotations)

Course schedule: May through August (16 weeks)

Hours:

• Academic classes: Tuesday, daytime hours
• Clinical class: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.