Edith McTiernan Scholarship

Edith McTiernan was one of the early pioneer technologist educators, who help found the Orange Coast College Neurodiagnostic Technology (NDT) program along with Hugh McIntyre, MD and David Johnson, MD. Starting her career as an EEG technician in 1944, she was a member of the original advisory committee in 1969 that formulated OCC’s program. In 1973 , she became the first full-time NDT faculty/program director and continued until she retired in 1985. In retirement, she remained an active member of the program’s advisory committee until 2002. During her tenure at OCC, she successfully trained 155 Neurodiagnostic technologists. Two of her graduates are Kevin Ballinger, her successor as program director from 1986-1996 and current dean of Consumer & Health Sciences Division at OCC, and Walt Banoczi, the current program director since 1996.