Education Faculty Positions Author Educational Media Brief Biography

I am Professor Emeritus of Health and Wellness at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. I also am a professional writer and Web publisher.

• Health 1...an online college personal health course
• Health and Wellness, a college personal health text
• A new college text, Basic Human Sexuality (to be published by Jones and Bartlett in 2011)
• Ahead of Their Time, a children's book and companion website about the 1951 University of San Francisco Dons football team
• Solar Electricity for Kids
• Life After Ball, a novel (in progress)
• Physician's Guide to the Interner...Editor and Publisher

Education

Faculty Positions

• Courses taught: Introduction to Health; Introduction to Health Online; Peer Health Education and Support; Drugs and Society; Human Sexuality.
• Chair, College Technology Committee (4 years)
• Online teacher of the year, 2004 and 2005
• Faculty trainer: distance education and educational uses of the Internet
• Developer and former director of the Las Positas College Honors Transfer Program
• Developer and former director of the the Las Positas College Community Education Program
• Co-Director and Director of Training, Student Health Education and Peer Counseling Program.

University of California, Davis 1983-1993. Lecturer, Department of Human Development; Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Community Health, UC Davis School of Medicine.

• Courses taught: Human Sexuality; AIDS; Current Topics in Health; The Individual and the Family; Peer Counselor Training.
• Health Educator, UCD Student Health Center.
• Supervisor, Peer Counselors in Sexuality, a health education and peer counseling program.
• Developed and taught Peer Counselor Training for 125 peer counselor/health educators.
• Curricular Design Consultant in human sexuality, UC Davis School of Medicine
• Curricular Design Consultant in substance abuse education for medical students, UC Davis School of Medicine;

Sacramento City College, 1983-1994 (Adjunct). Courses: Human Sexuality; Sexuality in the Later Years

University of California, Berkeley Extension, 1983-1996. Courses: Human Sexuality for mental health professionals; "The Health Professional's Guide to the Internet."

California School of Professional Psychology, 1991-1994. Human sexuality course for mental health professionals in training.

Author

• Health and Wellness (with Gordon Edlin). 666 pp. Jones and Bartlett, 1982; 1985; 1987; 1992; 1996; 1999, 2002, 2007, 2010 ...a college health science text
• Sourcebook for Human Development 12, 82pp. Self-published college text for human sexuality courses
• First Aid for Sports Injuries (with Stanley Inkelis, MD). 48pp. Self-published.
• Marriage and Family Life (with Barbara Harris). 505 pp. Houghton Mifflin, 1982...a college text
• Human Reproduction 219 pp. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 1975...a college text
• How to Prevent and Help Heal Running and Other Sports Injuries. 176 pp. A.S. Barnes. 1979.
• "The Healthy U."...editor and publisher of student health quarterly at UC Davis. 1990-1992
• "Dear Penelope."...co-writer of a newspaper advice column on close relationships, published weekly in the UC Davis campus newspaper

Educational Media

• Tutor Tutor (1995). Writer and producer of multimedia, computer-aided instructional program teaching tutor-trainees how to be tutors
• Helping Skills Training for Working with the Elderly (1992). Writer and producer of multimedia, computer-aided instructional program teaching eldercare helping skills to medical and graduate students
• Understanding Sexual Assault (1990). Executive producer and moderator of 45 minute interview-format educational video produced for UC Davis
• Birth Control and You (1990). Producer/writer of 20 minute slide program for college undergraduates. (produced at UC Davis)
• College Students and AIDS (1988). Producer and writer of a 30 minute educational video (produced at UC Davis)
• Sexuality in the Later Years (1985). Writer/producer of a multi-image presentation. Recipient of gold medal for best production of 1985 by Central California section of the Association for Multi-Image. Produced at UC Davis.

Brief Biography

I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in West Los Angeles. I went to college at UC Berkeley, majoring in biochemistry with the intention of going to medical school. Ultimately, I decided not to go to medical school and instead earn a Ph.D. in biochemistry and endocrinology in the Hormone Research Lab at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.

In graduate school I realized I wanted to use education to help people and to make the world a better place, so I stopped my Ph.D. work in biochemistry and turned my attention to teaching and writing about human biology and health rather than doing research. For the next 15 years I focused on writing, publishing, and college teaching in health and human sexuality. Needing more social scientific training, I earned a Ph.D. from UC Davis in Human Development and Family Studies.

For 11 years I was at UC Davis as a faculty member and as a staff health educator at the Student Health Center. From 1993 to 2007, I was a professor of health at Las Positas College.

I am married to lovely person, who is a physician.