Biography
Born and raised in South Africa, I immigrated to Canada in 1993 and first came to Oakland University in 1997 as Acting Director of the Exercise Science Program. I have taught exercise science related courses at Universities in South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. A significant part of my working life has been spent in corporate and industrial settings where I held senior positions in worksite health and wellness promotion, clinical exercise science settings, and in applied health and fitness research. My background equips me well for managing a degree program in wellness, health promotion and injury prevention. I am a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Degrees
BA, Physical Education and Psychology; Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (1983)
BA (Hons), Physical Education, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (1984)
MA, Physical Education, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (1986)
D.Phil., Human Movement Science, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa (1992)
Interests
I enjoy teaching immensely and take pride in being accessible to students with my open-door policy. My scholarly interests are in occupational work physiology, the prevention of acute or chronic illness, as well as the prevention of unintentional and intentional injury. I have a particular interest in the development and implementation of task-specific physical readiness evaluations for “industrial athletes” i.e. people engaged in physically demanding occupations. Away from work my interests are in distance running. While living in South Africa I completed 13 Comrades 90km (56 mile) ultra-marathons and hold the Permanent Green Number 3086. In 2009 I completed my 17th Comrades and by 2014 hope to finish 20 runs to earn a “Double Green.”
Publications
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