Experience

Texas A&M School of Public Health

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regents Professor, Founding Director and Co-Principal Investigator

  • Jul 2001 - Present

  Serve as Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences and as Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Center for Community Health Development. Supervise doctoral and masters students, manage community-based research initiatives, teach and consult on community health status assessment and community health development/capacity building processes. Serve as Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences and as Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Center for Community Health Development. Supervise doctoral and masters students, manage community-based research initiatives, teach and consult on community health status assessment and community health development/capacity building processes.



Texas A&M Health Science Center

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• interim Dean, School of Public Health

  • Feb 2013 - Feb 2015

  Served for 24 months as Interim Dean Served for 24 months as Interim Dean



Felix, Burdine and Associates

• President and Senior Scientist

  • Sep 1992 - Jun 2001

  Felix, Burdine and Associates was a nationally recognized health care consulting firm that focused on building local partnerships to address access to care and other health problems using community health status assessments as a key tool in a community health development strategy. We assisted more than 200 communities in 40 states with conducting community health status assessments and subsequent projects. Felix, Burdine and Associates was a nationally recognized health care consulting firm that focused on building local partnerships to address access to care and other health problems using community health status assessments as a key tool in a community health development strategy. We assisted more than 200 communities in 40 states with conducting community health status assessments and subsequent projects.



Lehigh Valley Health Network

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President, Community Health

  • Jan 1987 - Sep 1992

  Created Department of Community Health serving all components of a multi-hospital system. Responsible for developing strategies and programs to address a wide range of community health problems facing the populations of the Lehigh Valley, including "Healthier U.®", "The Test You Can't Fail®" - a nationally syndicated colon-rectal screening program, "Countdown Lehigh Valley®" - the model for “CountDown for Cholesterol" program, the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Valley - the largest non-federally funded smoking cessation and prevention program in the United States, the ALERT-Partnership for a Drug-Free Valley - a model for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Fighting Back Initiative, the NEXUS for Geriatric Planning, and Healthy Business®- a for-profit occupational medicine service.



Scott & White Healthcare

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management

• Director, Health Promotion

  • Jan 1984 - Dec 1986

  Responsibilities included creation of Health Promotion Department, the supervision of professional staff in the design, marketing, implementation and evaluation of occupational and preventive medicine programs, a variety of community health promotion programs, the Options for a Healthy Lifestyle® program, and the Scott and White Health Education Centers. Responsibilities included creation of Health Promotion Department, the supervision of professional staff in the design, marketing, implementation and evaluation of occupational and preventive medicine programs, a variety of community health promotion programs, the Options for a Healthy Lifestyle® program, and the Scott and White Health Education Centers.



Seton Medical Center

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Health Promotion and Education

  • Jan 1981 - Dec 1983

  Established Health Promotion Department and developed The Good Health Schools, a community-based (retail malls and professional office buildings) program, recognized by the American Hospital Association as a model for hospital-sponsored community health promotion efforts. Established Health Promotion Department and developed The Good Health Schools, a community-based (retail malls and professional office buildings) program, recognized by the American Hospital Association as a model for hospital-sponsored community health promotion efforts.



University of Texas at Austin

• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Community Health Program

  • Sep 1979 - Dec 1981

  Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in health education theory and practice, supervised program in community health education, conducted research and provided testimony to Texas legislature. Served as Chair of the Austin Chapter of the Texas State Health Coalition. Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in health education theory and practice, supervised program in community health education, conducted research and provided testimony to Texas legislature. Served as Chair of the Austin Chapter of the Texas State Health Coalition.



Research Triangle Institute

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • Mar 1977 - Aug 1979

  Worked as evaluation design consultant on the National Stroke Center Project at the Center for Health Studies at RTI. Responsible for the design of prevention and treatment evaluation protocols. Worked as evaluation design consultant on the National Stroke Center Project at the Center for Health Studies at RTI. Responsible for the design of prevention and treatment evaluation protocols.