Misericordia University, Dallas, recently recognized the 10th graduating class from the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Certificate Program during the annual certificate presentation ceremony on campus.

Seventeen students completed the 18-month academic program, which includes classroom and clinical instruction. The sonography program more commonly referred to as ultrasound is designed for adult or nontraditional learners who possess the necessary prerequisites.Local students honored at the annual completion dinner included Chelsea Holthausen, Kunkletown, and Ashley Kalage, Jim Thorpe.The Misericordia University Sonography Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.Sonographers perform a diagnostic medical procedure that uses ultrasound to produce dynamic visual images of human organs, tissues or blood flow inside the body.Sonographers work in various medical settings, including hospitals, outpatient clinics and physician offices under the supervision of a physician specialist in radiology, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, vascular surgery, cardiology or ophthalmology.