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Education:
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Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), Widener University
MBA, Healthcare Administration, Widener University
MA, Clinical Psychology, Widener University
BA, Psychology, Business Administration SUNY Oswego
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| Married? |
Yes |
| How many children? |
Three daughters |
| How long have you been with Creative Health Services? |
Four years |
| In your words, what do you do at Creative Health Services? |
I provide administrative and clinical oversight of all programs and services. I generally muck about and try and keep people satisfied. Occasionally I look at numbers, and reports, and nod sagely. |
| Why do you do what you do? |
I have always enjoyed public behavioral healthcare and particularly enjoy bossing people around. Management seems to suit me. But not the wearing suits part. Suits don’t suit me at all. |
| What keeps you working with Creative Health Services? |
The people |
| In your time with Creative Health Services, what accomplishment are you most proud of? |
Working with the staff and board to re-envision Creative Health’s role in the community, culminating in the development of our main location at 11 Robinson Street in Pottstown. I am particularly proud of the design, which not only makes Creative Health more innovative, but also clearly demonstrates the importance of both our staff and clients. |
| What’s your favorite part of your job? |
The bossing people around bit comes to mind. Also, working to come up with innovative ways to solve old problems. Not so much all the meetings and the wearing of suits. |
| What do you value most in life? |
My children |
| Favorite TV shows: |
Battlestar Galactica (The new series. Best show ever.)
Top Chef
Chuck
Gossip Girl
American Idol
Life
Eli Stone
Kim Possible
Dead Like Me
Heroes
How I Met Your Mother
Californication
Weeds
The United States of Tara
The OC
(we watch a lot of TV) |
| Favorite movies: |
Star Wars (episodes IV, V and VI)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (read the books first!!!)
Transformers
Spiderman
The Harry Potter movies (again, read the books first!!!)
Leolo (this one is very obscure, but brilliant)
Dan in Real Life |
| Favorite author(s)/book(s): |
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Cryptonimicon by Neal Stephenson
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Anything by Neil Gaiman
Bellwether by Connie Willis. Doomsday Book is quite good also.
Anything by John Varley, but especially Titan, Wizard and Demon.
James Morrow, especially Towing Jehovah (how could a book about an oil tanker towing the dead body of god possibly be bad?).
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| One food I could not live without is? |
Pizza. Also spaghetti and meatballs. Probably Chinese food too. |
| Favorite musical groups: Now: |
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth
Silversun Pickups
Radiohead
Coldplay
Kristen Hersh
Uncle Tupelo
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start (check out the song "by surprise") |
| When I was in Jr. High: |
Motley Crue
Ratt
A bit later, Led Zeppelin |
| How do you relieve stress? |
Videogames. Especially Rock Band 2, Halo 3 and Gears of War 2. Also television watching. Exercising works too. |
| Hobbies and/or other interest: |
Woodworking, construction, design, cooking (but I’m bad at it), videogames, reading, gardening (but not mowing), and gadgets and gizmos of all kinds, particularly those by apple and also home theater equipment. |
| Things I am passionate about: |
The people of Creative Health. Social justice (but not socialism). Good design. But mostly, my wife and children. |
| If you could possess one superpower, what would it be? |
For a sci-fi and comic book geek like me, this is an impossible question because all single superpowers have significant weaknesses unless paired with another. For example, what good is super strength without invulnerability? If the power is a healing factor, like Wolverine’s, a life of loneliness awaits you as all who you love age and die as you stay the same. I have thought about this question for weeks and still cannot decide. So, I guess I will go with flying. That would be cool, but kind of cold. |
| What is your favorite day of the year? |
Saturday |
| Do you have any hidden talents? |
I’m pretty good with tools. Not good at all with music. |
| When I die, this is what I want remembered about me: |
I want to be remembered as a good father. That’s it. If I get that, my life is complete. |
| One of your favorite quotes: |
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” - Douglas Adams
I like Douglas Adams quotes in general and the above is my absolute favorite. I am also fond of these by him:
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
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“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
(I’m not so much good at picking only one of something.)
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| Anything else you want to add? |
I hope everyone knows the “bossing people around” bit was a joke. Really, my role is to support everyone else and build strong teams. Bossing around has very little to do with it. |