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Biography edit
I have worked professionally in medicine, surgery, public health, and psychiatry. I was a physician assistant from 1983 until I retired in 2010.
In 1984, I ran an outpatient clinic for the American Refugee Committee in Nong Samet Refugee Camp on the Thai-Cambodian border. I then volunteered as a surgical assistant at the Huria Kristen Batak Protestant Hospital in Balige, Sumatra, Indonesia. I worked in the prison infirmary at the North Central Correctional Institution in Massachusetts for three years, then joined the Peace Corps and served as a health volunteer in Guinea-Bissau, where I ran a community health center. Having acquired a working knowledge of Portuguese, I then went to Mozambique, where I worked in a prosthetics assistance project for amputees, run by Health Volunteers Overseas. From there, I went to Angola, where I was site manager in an immunization program run by the International Medical Corps. From 1996 until 1997 I ran a malaria control program for Doctors Without Borders in the Yanomami indigenous area in Brazil, continuing the same program for CCPY from 1998 until 2001. After obtaining a Master's Degree in public health at Boston University, I ran a health education program for Survivor Corps until 2010. I taught at James Madison University, where I supervised peer support programs for survivors of war-related violence who are affected by PTSD until 2015, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor there until 2017.
At various times, I have also worked in an abortion clinic, on an organ transplant team, in a psychiatric hospital, in a methadone clinic, in the Mozambican Ministry of Health, as assistant to an orthopedic surgeon, and as a consultant for the Clinton Foundation and for the CDC. I now work as a Crisis Intervention Clinician in a hospital emergency room.
I am interested in:
- Infectious diseases
- Public health
- American fiction and criticism during and after World War II
- The history of Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia
- Indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
- The history of Native American Indians
- The colonial history of Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania during the 17th and 18th centuries
- Representations of magic and witchcraft in folklore
- Refugees and internally displaced persons
- Humanitarian aid agencies and aid workers
- Refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, 1970s to 1993
- Biographical articles of all kinds
- Peer support for survivors of psychological trauma due to war-related violence.
Below are articles that I have either created or have provided significant input:
Historic Native American communities project edit
Frontier biographies project edit
- William Ingles
- Thomas Ingles
- Peter Chartier
- Martin Chartier
- Peter Bisaillon
- Jacques Le Tort
- James Le Tort
- Samuel Stalnaker
- John Hansson Steelman
- William Clapham
- James Patton (Virginia colonist)
- John Buchanan (Virginia colonist)
- Hans Månsson
- John Lewis (Virginia colonist)
- John Fraser (frontiersman)
Captivity narratives edit
Native American leaders project edit
Thai border refugee camp project edit
Miscellaneous biographies edit
Military edit
- Battle of Tayacoba
- Sandy Creek Expedition
- Walther Model 8
- Battle of Galudoghson
- Fort Vause
- Battle of Sideling Hill
- Draper's Meadow massacre
- Great Cove massacre
- Gnadenhütten massacre (Pennsylvania)
- Bloody Springs massacre
- Hochstetler massacre
Pennsylvania colonial fort project edit
- Fort Augusta
- Fort Granville
- Fort Lyttleton (Pennsylvania)
- Fort Juniata Crossing
- Fort Robinson (Pennsylvania)
- Fort Bigham
- Fort Allen (Carbon County, Pennsylvania)
- Fort Shirley
- Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania)
- Fort Hunter (Pennsylvania)
- Fort Swatara
- Fort Northkill
- Fort Prince George
- Mercer's Fort
- Fort Lebanon
- Fort Henry (Pennsylvania)
Geography edit
- Rokeby (Barrytown, New York)
- Lake Parime
- Schloss Allner
- Ingles Ferry
- Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia
- Dunkard Bottom, West Virginia