Teaching Interests

- New media including social media
- Emerging technologies in communication
- Public speaking, presentation, data visualization

Research Activities

Interests:
- Aging
- Cardiovascular disease
- Child development
- Diabetes
- Global health
- Health-care delivery
- Health communication
- Obesity
- Public health leadership
- Substance abuse

Activities:
- Co-founder of The Walking Classroom Institute, a nonprofit corporation devoted to getting kids and non-kids walking while they learn. (We call it “Post-sedentary Education.”)

Staff/Administrative Duties

For the Department of Health Behavior:
- Capstone preceptor with The Walking Classroom
- Classroom lectures on emerging technologies in public health communication

Education

MA, Teaching, University of Washington, 1971