In the past two-and-half years, Dr. Art Rosser, dean of the School of Technology, has become a familiar figure as one of the key educators at Clayton State University. Now Rosser is taking his role as an educator one step further.

Diagnosed with liver and colon cancer last year, Rosser has just completed a video for Piedmont Hospital on his external beam radiation Trilogy treatment of this past summer — a procedure that is so new that he is the first person in Georgia to benefit from it. Rosser has shared his experiences as part of a Piedmont Hospital webcast and a report on WXIA-TV. The webcast is on Piedmont’s Web site (www.or-live.com/piedmonthospital/1262) and Rosser’s interview on WXIA-TV was shown Oct. 11. The printed version of the news story is at www.11alive.com/news/health/health_article.aspx?storyid=70447.

External beam radiation involves large, precise doses of radiation over a short period of time with the goal of killing tumors located in inoperable places on the liver. Although chemotherapy was successful in eliminating his colon tumor, Rosser is also undergoing the external bean radiation under the care of Piedmont’s Dr. Frederick Schwaibold, a radiation oncologist.

“I am doing the webcast and the interview to help others,” says Rosser, whose primary care oncologist is Dr. R. Martin York, who practices out of Piedmont’s Fayetteville campus.