Faculty Experts

LeBow College of Business

Airaudo received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universita' degli Studi di Torino, Facolta' di Economia Italy. He received a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored numerous articles including “Interest Rate Rules, Endogenous Cycles and Chaotic Dynamics in Open Economies (with L.F. Zanna)” for the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (forthcoming) and “Currency Substitution and Money Demand in Italy: an Econometric Analysis” for Rivista di Politica Economica.

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College of Nursing and Health Professions

With more than 20 years of experience as a therapist, teacher, advocate and public speaker, Allen is committed to raising the bar in the community with a message of hope, faith, inspiration and empowerment while teaching the "how to" skills necessary for families to be strengthened.

Allen appears regularly on NBC's "Today" show as their relationship expert discussing many issues related to how to have and maintain healthy relationships in families and within communities. Allen brings a unique presence to the table by integrating both the systemic clinical skills needed to teach families, while incorporating the spiritual principles necessary to strengthen them.

LeBow College of Business

Becher's area of expertise includes banking and bank regulation, corporate control and mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, executive compensation, and regulation of financial service firms. His publications on corporate governance include, "Board Classification and Managerial Entrenchment: Evidence from the Market for Corporate Control," and "Why Do Good Takeover Bids Fail: Managerial Bargaining or Bad Faith?"

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College of Arts and Sciences

Bishop is a former sportswriter, newspaper editor and public relations manager. His most recent book, More: The Vanishing of Scale in an Over-the-Top Nation, published in 2011 by Baylor University Press, explores the narrative offered up by the media which suggests that we must engage in every activity – from having a baby to attending school to aging and dying – with zeal, élan and gusto. Bishop has served as faculty advisor of The Triangle, Drexel’s independent student newspaper, since 2003.

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School of Public Health

Bloom is a Board-certified psychiatrist and author who speaks nationally and internationally about the impact of traumatic experience on individuals, families, organizations and cultures. From 1980-2001, she served as founder and executive director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders. The Sanctuary Model® is now being applied in residential treatment programs for children, domestic violence shelters, group homes, homeless shelters and is being used in other settings as a method of organizational development.

Bloom is a past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and author of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies and co-author of Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility. She is currently working on a book that focuses on the impact of organizational stress on social service and mental health environments and the Sanctuary Model as an antidote to recurrent stress and systemic dysfunction. She also co-directs Drexel’s Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice.

iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Booker is an expert in computer networking, online data management and security and social media. He has a diverse background that includes a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in biomedical engineering. He has served as a consultant for Mission Solutions Engineering since 2004 and has also worked as a systems analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration in the areas of aviation safety and security.

Booker has commented for stories related to information security online, data management and networking. He also holds a degree in biomedical engineering and has done extensive research in bioinformatics and modeling of biological systems.

College of Arts and Sciences

Brulle is currently a CASBS Fellow at Stanford University. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on environmental science, and is a frequent media commentator on climate change. Brulle co-edited Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (2005) with David Pellow, and is the author of Agency, Democracy, and Nature: U.S. Environmental Movements from a Critical Theory Perspective (2000).

Brulle previously served as a commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard for two decades. He received his doctorate in sociology from George Washington University, his master of science degree in natural resources from the University of Michigan, his master of arts degree in sociology from the New School for Social Research and his bachelor of science degree in marine engineering from the United States Coast Guard Academy.

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College of Nursing and Health Professions

Carey has over 20 years of experience in behavioral health program planning and management, continuing education training and policy development.

She is a member of the United Stated Psychiatric Rehabilitation Certification Commission, the International Committee for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Inclusion, and is a consultant to Pennsylvania’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

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School of Public Health

Chilton's area of expertise includes human rights and health, race, ethnicity and poverty, nutrition and chronic disease, hunger, women and children, complementary and alternative medicine and religion and medicine.

Chilton investigates the health impacts of hunger and food insecurity among young children aged zero to three. Her work spans across a variety of issues that affect low-income families to address nutritional wellbeing, public assistance participation, housing instability and employment. She has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committees to inform policy decisions regarding child nutrition.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Ciccariello-Maher previously taught political theory at U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. His research and teaching center on the “decolonial turn” in political thought, the moment of epistemic and political interrogation that emerges in response to colonialism and global social inequality. Ciccariello-Maher’s new book on Venezuela, We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, is scheduled for release in Spring 2013 from Duke University Press. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch, MRZine, Znet, Alternet and VenezuelaAnalysis.com, and has been a media commentator for such outlets as The New York Times, Al Jazeera, NPR and the Los Angeles Times.

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College of Nursing and Health Professions

Clements is an experienced psychiatric clinical therapist, forensic consultant and critical incident/trauma response specialist. He is also a certified Gang Specialist and certified in Danger Assessment. He has provided counseling and crisis intervention to over 1500 families of murder victims, as well as to high numbers of surviving family members in the aftermath of suicide, industrial and occupational deaths, motor vehicle accidents, sudden infant death syndrome and other types of sudden violent death, as well as to survivors of interpersonal violence such as sexual abuse, rape and stalking.

Note to reporters: Clements teaches online classes from a remote location and is available for interviews via telephone or email only.

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LeBow College of Business

Curatola’s area of research interest includes federal and state income tax policy, fringe benefits taxation, retirement income and women and retirement income taxation. He has authored more than 90 articles that have appeared in journals such as The Tax Adviser, Canadian Accounting Perspectives, Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research and Tax Notes. His findings also have appeared in media such as Forbes, Washington Post, Money Magazine, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He has chaired and served on the Tax Policy Research Oversight committee for the American Taxation Association.

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Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Curry has extensive experience in broadcast journalism as a producer and executive. She created award-winning programs from around the world for NBC's “Today Show” and was NBC News’ London bureau chief. As bureau chief, she managed the largest bureau outside the United States and directed coverage of the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She was responsible for covering major breaking stories, most notably the death of Princess Diana. Curry was also executive director of morning news programming at NBC where she launched “Weekend Today,” the first Saturday/Sunday edition of a network morning news broadcast. Curry previously joined CNN as vice president and New York bureau chief, where she directed the New York bureau's newsgathering efforts and was responsible for the production needs of CNN programs based in New York. She ran the bureau's coverage of 9/11 and its aftermath, including serving the needs of several new shows that were launched in the midst of the coverage.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Daly is a clinical child and adolescent psychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of children with a chronic illness, evaluation of adolescent health risk behaviors, development and evaluation of evidence-based psychosocial evaluations for youth, prevention and resiliency in urban youth and delivery of mental health promotion in schools. Following the completion of his doctorate in counseling psychology from Loyola University in Chicago, he completed a clinical internship in child psychology at the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine Psychology Internship Consortium. Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at Temple University Health Sciences Center. Following the fellowship, Daly was an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at Temple University as well as the director of training for the APA-approved pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship program. He has co-authored two books, and more than 40 articles and book chapters. He is on the editorial board of Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and a reviewer for more than 20 scientific journals.

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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and College of Arts and Sciences

Daeschler has been at the Academy since 1987 and joined the faculty of Drexel’s Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science upon its founding in 2012. His responsibilities at the Academy focus on research, collections building and on public programs within the museum. He served as a scientific advisor for the renovation of the Academy’s Dinosaur Hall and a variety of other paleontological exhibits.

Daeschler’s research in vertebrate paleontology focuses on the vertebrate fauna of the Late Devonian Period (385-363 million-years-ago) in eastern North America. The research involves active fossil collecting, systematic work focusing on freshwater vertebrates and the nature of early non-marine ecosystems. Fossil discoveries from the incompletely-known Late Devonian interval help answer questions about the diversification of major groups of fishes, the origin of limbed vertebrates, and the invasion of land by plants and animals.

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LeBow College of Business

DeCarolis is frequently called upon by local and national media for her expertise in small business and new venture creation. In her role as associate dean for graduate programs, she leads all graduate and corporate programs for Drexel’s LeBow College of Business. She brings her proven strengths in creative program development and team motivation to sustain and enhance LeBow College’s graduate offerings. In her previous role as associate dean for strategic initiatives, DeCarolis was responsible for the oversight and strategic direction of the Centers of Excellence at the LeBow College of Business.

She is also responsible for the development of synergistic programs and initiatives within LeBow College, other colleges at Drexel, and with the business community at large.

DeCarolis has researched, written and lectured extensively on various aspects of entrepreneurship, technology management and technology commercialization. Her areas of expertise are entrepreneurship and new venture creation, technology commercialization, strategic alliances and social capital.

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College of Arts and Sciences, Earle Mack School of Law

DeMatteo's research interests include psychopathy, forensic mental health assessment, drug policy and offender diversion. His research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and American Psychology-Law Society. DeMatteo is licensed as a psychologist in Pennsylvania, where he conducts forensic mental health assessments of juveniles and adults. He has co-authored three books in his field, with two more forthcoming, and more than 60 articles and book chapters. He is the associate editor of Law and Human Behavior, on the editorial boards of Criminal Justice & Behavior and the Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology and a reviewer for more than 15 scientific journals. DeMatteo was chair of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Committee on Legal Issues in 2011, and he is currently council representative to APA for the American Psychology-Law Society (Div. 41 of APA).

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College of Arts and Sciences

D'Ovidio researches the intersection of computer technology, crime and the criminal justice system. He directs Drexel's research program in computer crime and digital forensics. In the past, he has worked with the New York City Police Department and Philadelphia Police Department on research projects involving computer crime. His work with the law enforcement community also includes training investigators on techniques to trace Internet communication and seize electronic evidence and cell phones.

He is a member of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists, the American Society of Criminology, and the United States Secret Service Philadelphia- Area Electronic Crimes Task Force. D'Ovidio sits on the National Governors Association's Strategic Policy Council on Cyber and Electronic Crime. He serves as an advisor to the Pennsylvania State Treasurer on identity theft and is a consultant to BK Forensics, assisting with law enforcement outreach and the development of training curriculum. He provides regular commentary for media outlets on news stories pertaining to computer crime, Internet safety, identity theft and surveillance.

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College of Engineering

Eisenstein is an expert in pattern recognition and digital signal processing. He has published nearly 50 papers in the areas of digital signal processing, pattern recognition, deconvolution and biomedical engineering.

He was the 2000 President of the IEEE, the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. His other IEEE positions have included Chairman of the Philadelphia Section, IEEE treasurer, vice president for Technical Activities, member of the Board of Directors, and president of the Education Society. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Pennsylvania.

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Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Epstein is an expert on the media industry and management of media businesses. He spent 25 years in broadcast management, including 14 years with the CBS Broadcast Group and 10 years as an executive in companies serving the television industry. Epstein currently serves as the head of the Department of Arts & Entertainment Management and the advisor for WKDU, Drexel’s student-run radio station, and teaches in the music industry and television management programs.

He earned an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and continues to serve as a board member of the Cornell Radio Guild. Epstein’s background in business and entertainment media allows him to assess the driving economic and regulatory forces behind the media industry. Epstein is also a fellow in Drexel’s LeBow College of Business and the Center for Academic Excellence.

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School of Public Health
Earle Mack School of Law

Field is a nationally known expert on health law and public health whose research focuses on ethical issues in managed care, public policy and legal facets of healthcare reform and genetic screening. In addition to being a professor in the School of Public Health, he also holds an appointment as professor of law at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel. He is the author of "Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromise," a comprehensive guide to the government's role in regulating health care, published by Oxford University Press.

He previously taught at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, where he founded and chaired the Department of Health Policy and Public Health and directed the Graduate Program in Health Policy. Field led business planning and development for the primary care network of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, where he was in charge of acquisitions of physician practices that created the network and directed other business development activities. He has also conducted health policy research at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Law and Health Sciences at Boston University and practiced health law with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia.

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Earle Mack School of Law

Filler studies the effects of social anxiety on the development of criminal law. He is an expert on sex offender community notification, the death penalty and juvenile justice law. Before joining Drexel, Filler was a professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law, where he created the school's Capital Defense Clinic.

He has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Humanities and chaired an American Bar Association team that assessed the fairness and accuracy of Alabama's death-penalty system. His scholarship has appeared in the Virginia Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Iowa Law Review, among other places.

In 2008, Filler established The Faculty Lounge blog to which he continues to contribute regularly.

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The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology

Forte has a doctorate in human-centered computing from the College of Computing at Georgia institute of Technology, and focused her studies there on social computing and learning sciences. She holds a master's in library and information science from University of Texas, Austin, and holds undergraduate degrees in foreign language and literature and philosophy.

Her professional experience includes human-computer interaction design and managing special library collections. Her research focus is in understanding new forms of information production and sharing that are made possible by participatory media.

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School of Public Health

Frank's areas of research include agricultural safety and health, pneumoconiosis, occupational toxicology, occupational cancers, occupational lung disease and environmental pollution.

Frank received a medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a doctoral degree in biomedical sciences from the City University of New York. He was trained in both internal medicine and occupational medicine and holds board certification in both fields. As a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service, he conducted research at the National Cancer Institute. His major research activities have included the study of occupational lung diseases such as asbestosis and silicosis, and occupational cancers, especially those related to asbestos exposure. He has worked in the area of agricultural safety and health.

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Steinbright Career Development Center

Franks can comment on job market trends and the job market outlook. As the head of Drexel's career services center, he oversees the University's cooperative education program putting students in touch with employers and more than 1,500 companies in 42 states and 20 international locations. Prior to his appointment at Drexel, he served as CEO of the World Association for Cooperative Education, Inc. (WACE).

Prior to joining WACE, Franks was vice president of administration and corporate relations (chief operating officer) of the National Commission for Cooperative Education and executive officer of the Northeastern University Division of Cooperative Education.

LeBow College of Business

Garner has published in numerous academic journals such as The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Business and Financial Management. From 1999 – 2007, she regularly contributed to “The Wall Street Journal Finance Educators’ Review.” Her research focuses on corporate finance; more specifically Garner studies issues related to initial public offerings, corporate governance and investment bank compensation. Garner has won several teaching awards. She serves as president of Eastern Finance Association and is an associate editor for Financial Review.

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College of Nursing and Health Professions

Giarelli has over 15 years of experience conducting research with patients, family members and health care providers, including multiple intervention studies. For the past decade, she has studied the life-long medical, psychological, and social problems, and health care needs of people with genetic disorders diagnosed in childhood, that require life-long enhanced surveillance and self-management. Study populations include, individuals with Marfan syndrome, cancer syndromes such as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2a MEN2s) and autism spectrum disorder.

Giarelli is co-editor of the book Nursing of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence-based Integrated Care Across the Lifespan (Springer, 2012).

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iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Goggins’ work in group informatics centers around public engagement through social media and identifying social trends on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. If there is a social phenomena occurring, Goggins and his lab track and gather social media data surrounding the event. He has published extensively in the area of group informatics - gleaning information from patterns displayed by small groups. Goggins has commented for stories related to social media and networking, online dating and the growth of Twitter use surrounding elections, politics and sporting events.

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School of Public Health

Gold is an expert in infectious disease. She previously served as Philadelphia's Assistant Health Commissioner for Infectious Disease Control in the Public Health Department, where she was responsible for all reportable and communicable diseases and conditions. Among her responsibilities, Gold designed and established the largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS care program in the Greater Philadelphia Region known as The Partnership.

Gold has extensive national experience working with community-based organizations, community leaders and coalitions on a wide range of public health issues. Gold's research interests include: HIV/AIDS: design of care systems; treatment protocols; resource utilization; epidemiology; CQI; managed care & systems of health care; health administration; behavioral health care and substance abuse treatment systems.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Goldberg is a researcher in theoretical cosmology and astrophysics, focusing primarily in the field of gravitational lensing.  He is the author (with former student, Jeff Blomquist) of A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes and Quantum Uncertainty, a popular account of recent advances in physics and astronomy, and of The Universe in the Rearview Mirror (2013).

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Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Gregory currently serves as director of the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery as well as department head for the Department of Art and Art History. He is the author of a recent iconographical study of the religious paintings of the 16th century Northern European painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Gregory has also published articles in the fields of modern art, interdisciplinary studies, art theory and contemporary photography. He teaches all components of the Western survey, and has taught specialized courses in contemporary art, women in art, Northern Renaissance, Baroque, 19th century and American art. Currently, he is writing a textbook on modern art and a second book on the iconography of Bruegel’s religious narratives..

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Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Gruber is an expert in fashion design and the business of the fashion industry. She began her teaching career after spending several years in industry as president of her own dress company and as a designer for other nationally recognized firms. She also creates wearable art and has been hired to develop fashion illustrations and graphic images for marketing and advertising purposes for a variety of companies.

Gruber is the author of several articles within The St. James Press, "Fashion Encyclopedia" and is also the author and illustrator of "Fashion Images," Prentice Hall, 1999, a text on fashion illustration. She has taught at Drexel for 19 years and curated several art and design related exhibitions for the Drexel University Design Arts Gallery. Most recently, she spent five weeks teaching at the Foundation for International Education in London as part of the Design & Merchandising department's study abroad program and continues to do freelance design work.

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College of Engineering

Haas's research interests include water treatment, risk assessment, bioterrorism, environmental modeling and statistics, microbiology, environmental health.

Haas's research includes the treatments of drinking water. Specifically, Haas has studied the chemical disinfection processes, inactivation of emerging pathogens by disinfectants and the use of computational fluid dynamics for process modeling. Haas is also an expert in risk management and industrial waste treatment. A recipient of the 2003 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the International Ozone Association, Haas was listed among "Who's Who in the World" (2001) and was elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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LeBow College of Business

Hammoudeh is an expert in gas and oil pricing, and its effects on the economy. He has served as the senior economist to the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries and as a researcher for the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. He has earned grants to study world oil prices and is the co-author of journal articles on the price of gas and oil and its connection to the U.S. markets.

Hammoudeh earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Baghdad and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Kansas.

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Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Hancock has a 20-year retailing background, having worked for The Gap Corporation, The Limited, Inc., and the Target Corporation, and continues to do publishing and merchandising consulting work on an international level. He earned his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University focusing his research in popular culture as it relates to transnational mass fashion garments and world dress, aspirational fashion branding and experiential retailing, as well as men’s fashion and lifestyles. Hancock has published works in the Journal of American Culture, the Journal Fashion Practice, the Journal of Popular Culture, and has released a book, Brand/Story: Ralph, Vera, Johnny, Billy and Other Adventures in Fashion Branding, which was published by Fairchild Publications.

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Goodwin College

Harrington has authored or co-authored more than 14 books. He has studied workforce development and human resource policy for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor, the Rhode Island Board of Education, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Harrington received the "Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Our Workforce" from the Massachusetts Workforce Board Association in 2004 and the "Building a World Class Workforce Award" from the U.S. Department of Labor, National Association of State Workforce Agencies in 2003.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Hearn is founder and director of the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program, a partnership with Equatorial Guinea’s National University, that promotes the conservation of wildlife through self-sustaining programs in education, research and conservation on Bioko Island. Hearn’s research team’s interests include primate conservation and the impact of bushmeat hunting, as well as sea turtles, amphibians and other species.

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LeBow College of Business

Howley spent the first 20 years of his career as a health care service provider. After going on to earn his MBA and a Ph.D. in business administration, Howley centers his research on health care marketing. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles including “The Influence of Different Types of Cues-to-Action on Vaccination Behavior in an Epidemic” for the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice and “The Use of Apology in Health Care” for Journal of Medical Marketing 9.

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Earle Mack School of Law

Kalhan’s principal interests include immigration law, criminal law, U.S. and comparative constitutional law and international human rights law. Before coming to Drexel, he was a visiting assistant professor of law at Fordham University and an associate in law at Columbia University. Kalhan previously worked as litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he also served as co-coordinator of the firm’s immigration and international human rights pro bono practice group. He also has previously worked for the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York and served as law clerk to the Hon. Chester J. Straub (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and the Hon. Gerard E. Lynch (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York).

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College of Arts and Sciences

Kane’s teaching and research interests center around police authority and accountability, the ecology of urban policing and the intersections among neighborhood violence, justice and urban health. Kane has conducted field research in Philadelphia, New York City, Phoenix and the District of Columbia. He has worked with the police and other justice authorities in the Netherlands, England and Ireland.

Among other scholarly activities, he has recently written a book entitled Jammed Up for New York University Press based on research he conducted in the New York City Police Department on career-ending misconduct. To date, this was the largest and most comprehensive study of misconduct ever conducted in an American police department. He co-authored the book with former Arizona State University colleague, Michael White.

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College of Engineering

Kim's research focuses on digital media technologies that will shape the future of entertainment, especially in the areas of sound and music. He is director of the Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab), which focuses on research in machine listening and music information retrieval, music production technology and new music interfaces.

Kim was recently granted an NSF CAREER Award for a project titled "Exploring Creative Expression through Music and Audio Technology." Kim's project integrates research in digital audio technology with educational activities under a common vision of transforming the passive act of listening to recorded music into an interactive experience in which the performance responds to the creative input of the listener. The grant is for a five-year project.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Knowles is a historian of modern cities, technology and public policy–with a particular focus on risk and disaster. His most recent book is The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Knowles serves as the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry in the Pennoni Honors College. He is the author/editor of Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City (UPenn Press, 2009); and has published articles, essays, and book reviews in The Next American City, Isis, History and Technology, The New York Times, Public Works Management and Policy, Technology and Culture, Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, The Smart Set and Annals of Science.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Lacovara's research is focused on the paleontological reconstruction of Mesozoic Era environments containing the remains of dinosaurs and other vertebrate animals.

Lacovara and students recently excavated large sauropod dinosaurs from Late Cretaceous terrestrial deposits in southern Patagonia, Argentina. He is also a member of the Bahariya Dinosaur project, working in the Egyptian Sahara, and a collaborative project with Dr. Hai Lu You (Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences) and Dr. Matthew Lamanna (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), in which they are studying the evolution of Cretaceous ornithurine birds from the middle Cretaceous of China. Locally, Lacovara and students collaborate with Dr. William Gallagher (New Jersey State Museum) on a study of the Cretaceous fauna of southern New Jersey. They recently excavated 65-million-year-old New Jersey crocodilian, Thoracosaurus neocesariensis, currently on display at Drexel.

The study of Mesozoic ecosystems, particularly those of the Cretaceous Period, has taken on added importance in recent years because of global warming. Because researchers cannot study the future, fossil ecosystems offer the only tangible evidence of what continued global warming may produce.

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School of Public Health

Lankenau is a sociologist who combines public health concerns and ethnographic methods to the study of high-risk youth, out- of-treatment drug users, homelessness and HIV/AIDS. Currently, he is studying prescription drug misuse among young people in Los Angeles and New York to describe patterns of initiation, risk and protective behaviors and other unanticipated health consequences. He is also leading evaluation studies of overdose prevention programs in Los Angeles and Philadelphia to determine programs that effectively reduce the risks of fatal drug overdoses. Two of these studies are funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

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College of Engineering

Lee is an expert in video game design. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, with joint appointments in the Department of Media Art and Design in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

He is co-director of the RePlay Lab, a collaborative research and education laboratory in video game design and development at Drexel. He is also co-director of the Vision and Cognition Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Drexel.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Lowe is a clinical psychologist who studies the psychobiology of eating and weight regulation, including dieting and preventing and treating obesity. His specific research areas include: the relationship between dieting, overeating and weight control; obesity and the prevention of weight gain and weight regain; eating disorders research; integrating biological and psychological perspectives on eating and weight regulation; and research on the "power of food." The “Power of Food Scale” assessment technique he developed and validated has been featured on “The Dr. Oz Show.”

Lowe has been a long-term consultant to Weight Watchers and to the Renfrew Center for eating disorders in Philadelphia. With co-investigators Dr. Meghan Butryn and Dr. Maria Coletta of Drexel, he is conducting a 5-year NIH-funded study focusing on improving the food environment to improve maintenance of weight loss.

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LeBow College of Business

Vibhas’ research focuses on international trade theory, market power and product differentiation. He holds degrees from the University of Delhi and Michigan State University. He has authored or co-authored numerous publications on trade agreements and pricing, including “Preferential Trade Agreements, Market Power and Product Differentiation” for the Journal of Economic Integration and “Vertically Integrated Multinational Enterprises and the Relative Efficiency of Ownership Structures” for the International Trade Journal.

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School of Public Health

Márquez is an accomplished educator, researcher, administrator and “public health engineer,” who has garnered local, national and international recognition for research and practice in the field of global environmental health. Her international areas of focus include safe water systems, health systems strengthening and health governance, and agricultural health. She also led research on sustainable solutions to address the environmental burden of disease and health disparities in developing countries of Africa, and has also worked in Asia and Latin America and in underserved communities in the United States.

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College of Engineering

Martin's research specialties are geosynthetics, wastewater and runoff treatment, transportation project management and infrastructure facility condition evaluation. He is also an industry consultant on foundations and earthwork.

Martin's career at Drexel spans more than 27 years, with eight spent as the head of the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department. Martin received a B.S. in civil engineering from Tufts University, an M.S. in civil engineering (water resources-environmental) from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering (geotechnical) from Colorado State University. His experience includes two years with the New York D.O.T., four years in consulting on municipal engineering, and two years in the U.S. Army. As a licensed professional engineer, is a member of the Drexel Faculty Senate and advisor to the Drexel Chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers.

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School of Education

Miller holds a Ph. D. from the University of Miami and has completed extensive course work in educational administration. Her research interests focus on autism, special education leadership, educational apps, and program evaluation. Miller serves nationally on the research committee of the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) and is the editor for the Journal of Special Education Leadership.

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College of Engineering

Mutharasen is an expert in biosensors, bioreactors and process metallurgy. He recently developed a millimeter-size cantilever biosensor that, in only minutes, can detect cells and proteins in trace samples. The sensor could have wide applications in medical diagnostic testing (prostate cancer), detecting contamination in food products (E. coli bacteria) and monitoring for biothreat agents (anthrax).

The recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, Mutharasan has served on the advisory board of several organizations including the United Nations, United Engineers, Aluminum Company of America and Smith Kline Beecham.

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iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Morris teaches library science courses at the iSchool and her research focuses on urban libraries and urban literacy. She is also a renowned scholar in urban and minority fiction. She authored the Readers’ Advisory Guide to Street Literature and has written several papers on the topic of street literature, urban fiction and engaging and teaching urban youth through literature. Morris can also comment on urban libraries, their role in communities and trends in literacy.

iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Neuman is the director of the iSchool’s School Library Media (SLiM) Program. Her research focuses on learning in information-rich environments, instructional systems design and the use of media for learning in school libraries. She has also worked in library program assessment and information services for students with disabilities. Her professional background includes experience designing instructional media materials for children with disabilities and she has authored the national guidelines for the school library media profession.

A.J. Drexel Autism Institute and School of Public Health

Newschaffer is an expert in epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders, gene-environment interaction, epidemiology and risk communication. He came to Drexel after seven years on the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he founded and directed the Hopkins Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology.

At Drexel, Newschaffer now leads an NIH Autism Center of Excellence project studying a large cohort of mothers of children with autism at the start of subsequent pregnancies. This project, known as the EARLI Study, is designed specifically to study pre-, peri- and neonatal autism risk factors and biomarkers. He is also a principal investigator on other major autism epidemiology initiatives, including a national network established to monitor secular trends in autism prevalence and a CDC-funded multisite study that will be the largest case-control study of autism fielded to date.

He is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the national research and advocacy organization, Autism Speaks, and serves on advisory boards for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Autism Services and the Delaware Birth Defects and Autism Registry.

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The iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Nitecki has held administrative positions in the libraries of Yale University, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is active in national, state and regional associations, has served as a consultant and invited presenter throughout the U.S. and internationally and has published more than 90 articles, books, compilations and reviews.

Nitecki serves as both dean of libraries and a faculty member in Drexel’s iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology. She holds master’s degrees in library and information science and communications from Drexel and the University of Tennessee respectively, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

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The Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University

Okamoto is an expert in corporate, venture capital, private equity and securities law and corporate finance. He has extensive experience as both an attorney and an investor.

Okamoto earned his J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, where he was the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems and served on the Jessup International Moot Court Team.His research focuses on securities and corporate law. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups and co-organized the First Annual Asian Pacific American Law Professors' Conference.

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School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

Onaral is an expert in translational research and biomedical signal processing in ultrasound and optics. She has led major research and development projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Naval Research (ONR), DARPA and Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Onaral's translational research efforts for rapid commercialization of biomedical technologies developed at Drexel and its partner institutions have resulted in the creation of the Translational Research in Biomedical Technologies program. This initiative brings together academic technology developers with entrepreneurs, regional economic development agencies, as well as local legal, business, and investment communities.

Onaral's professional services include chair and membership on advisory boards and strategic planning bodies of several universities and funding agencies, including service on the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Board and on its proposal review panels and study sections. Her professional responsibilities have included service on the editorial board of journals and the CRC Biomedical Engineering Handbook as Section Editor for Biomedical Signal Analysis. She served as President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the largest member-based biomedical engineering society in the world.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Porpora is a professor of sociology in the Department of Culture and Communication. He has published widely on social theory. Among his books are The Concept of Social Structure (Greenwood 1980), How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America (Temple 1992) and Landscapes of the Soul: The Loss of Moral Meaning in American Life (Oxford 2001). Porpora’s new book, Public Debate in Post-Ethical Society: The Attack on Iraq, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular, is scheduled for release from University of Chicago Press in 2013.

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iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology; College of Engineering

Regli is the associate dean of research and the director of Drexel’s Applied Informatics Group at the iSchool. He is an expert in a variety of information science fields including informatics, digital curating. He holds a dual appointment in the College of Engineering where he is a professor of computer science and mechanical engineering and mechanics. His engineering research focuses on design, artificial intelligence and secure wireless communications. He has helped to design a communications platform whose concept has been commercialized for use by first responders and the military.

Regli has played an important role in establishing the iSchool as a National Science Foundation Center for Visual Data Informatics. He has also a senior science advisor to the National Institute of Justice’s Communications Technologies Center of Excellence and he also served as a senior scientific advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy in the areas of information technology for design manufacturing, production and digital engineering knowledge stewardship.

School of Public Health

A leader in the field of public health, Rich’s work has focused on serving one of the nation’s most ignored and underserved populations: African-American men in urban settings. In 2006, Rich was granted a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. In awarding this distinction, the Foundation cited his work to design "new models of health care that stretch across the boundaries of public health, education, social service and justice systems to engage young men in caring for themselves and their peers."

He is the author of the book Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men. He directs the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at Drexel. Its cornerstone program, “Healing Hurt People,” is a hospital-based violence intervention and prevention program that works with clients who are seen in the emergency department for intentional injuries such as gunshots or other assault wounds.

LeBow College of Business

Ridgley teaches entrepreneurship courses at Drexel’s LeBow College of Business and has created a DVD lecture series and book on strategic thinking skills. His expertise includes business communication, competitive intelligence, determinants of firm performance, new markets in emerging countries and Russian business culture. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2005 Musser Award for Leadership (Temple University), 1992-1993 Robert Wilson Instructor of Political Science (Duke University) and the 1984 George S. Patton Award for Leadership (United States Army 7th Army Academy, Bad Toelz, Germany).

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iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Rogers research focuses on how the use of information technology in complex settings can change the way people work. She is specifically looking at how health care practitioners use clinical information management systems and the role of technology in patient safety. Rogers teaches courses in human-computer interaction, health care informatics and human factors in engineering.

Her professional experience includes serving as a research scientist for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Getting at Patient Safety (GAPS) Center. While working at the center, she applied usability testing and cognitive work analysis to study how electronic medical records affected patient safety and clinicians’ workflow.

College of Arts and Sciences

Rosenberg specializes in local, regional and national politics and presidential elections and is a recognized expert on the American presidency and presidential campaigns. He has authored more than 60 articles, papers and technical reports and co-authored two books on presidential elections: The Politics of Disenchantment: Bush, Clinton, Perot and the Press (Praeger Publishers, New York, 1991) and New Verdicts (Paragon House, New York, 1995).

Rosenberg also studies U.S. and public opinion, political polling and research methods used in polling. He is an expert in public opinion, applied research and evaluation, all of which he teaches at Drexel.

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LeBow College of Business

A leading expert on the management of marketing channels and distribution systems, Rosenbloom has served as vice president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Marketing Association and was on the board of governors of the Academy of Marketing Science. Rosenbloom has consulted for a broad range of industries including manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, communications, services and real estate in the United States and abroad. He has authored numerous articles and books, including four editions of Marketing Channels: A Management View. The eighth edition published by Thomson/Southwestern in Feb. 2012 includes a case study of Facebook as a marketing channel.

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Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

As senior vice president of programming at the A&E Network prior to arriving at Drexel, Sabinson introduced the network to the production of original movies and series. Under his leadership, A&E received more Emmy nominations than any basic cable network for two consecutive years, and won Emmy awards in the categories of best mini-series for "Horatio Hornblower," best non-fiction series for "Biography" and best performing arts specials.

Sabinson was president of production at Miramax Film, and has held senior positions at TNT, ABC, ICM, NBC and Showtime.

A veteran in the entertainment industry, Sabinson has brought many film stars to television, including Tommy Lee Jones, Hugh Grant, Robert Duvall, Matt Damon, John Malkovich, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Diane Keaton, Catherine Zeta Jones and Mira Sorvino. He has presented music specials with Elton John, Michael Jackson, Sting, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and others.

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Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

In addition to her role as curator of the Drexel Historic Costume Collection, Sauro teaches courses in the history of fashion. Prior to this position, she supervised the Accessories Collection and worked as Assistant Curator in the Costume Collection at the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. At the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, she contributed to several exhibitions including “The Tailor’s Art and Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion.” In 2005, she co-curated the exhibition “Dutch at the Edge of Design: Fashion and Textiles from the Netherlands.” Sauro is a frequent lecturer on the history of fashion and has contributed essays to the Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (Scribner Library of Daily Life, January 2005) and Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness (Yale University Press, February 2007.).

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School of Public Health

Sell was one of the first to estimate the prevalence of lesbians, gays and bisexuals in a probability sample of the United States, United Kingdom and France. His work critically examines the variables used to measure health disparities.

Sell is a collaborator on a federally funded scientific study of social diffusion in online media for reaching hidden communities. He is also the lead investigator for a pending study of social networks as a means to sample gay men and collect health information. He has researched and published on the history and best practices of sampling homosexuality and has created an assessment of sexual orientation (the Sell Scale). He serves as a consultant to an ever-increasing number of surveys and programs that have begun to collect sexual orientation data. Sell also established the website GayData.org.

Drexel College of Arts and Sciences

Sheller's research interests include sustainable mobility and mobility justice, caribbean studies and mobilities, and tracing the histories and forecasting the futures of cultures of mobility.

Sheller holds a continuing appointment as senior research fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (UK) and is founding co-editor of the international journal Mobilities. She is on the international editorial boards of the journals Cultural Sociology, and African and Black Diaspora.

She is the author of the books Consuming the Caribbean (2003), which explores the relations of production and consumption in the transatlantic world from the colonial era until today; Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (2000); and recently completed Citizenship from Below: Caribbean Agency and Modern Freedom (forthcoming, Duke University Press). She is also co-editor with John Urry of Mobile Technologies of the City (2006), Tourism Mobilities(2004), and a special issue of Environment and Planning A on "Materialities and Mobilities."

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College of Arts and Sciences

Spotila's research interests are centered in the areas of environmental science, physiological and biophysical ecology, fisheries biology and ichthyology and conservation biology. He is an expert in the physiological and population ecology of sea turtles.

A pioneer in the field of sea turtle research, Spotila has made key contributions to the understanding of their physiology and behavior, and brought awareness to the threats they face. He was part of the team that attached a transmitter to a sea turtle for the first time, was first to recognize the impending disappearance of the leatherbacks from the Pacific Ocean and the first to document the connection between sex determination and nest temperature.

In 2005, Spotila published the award-winning illustrated book Sea Turtles: A complete guide to their biology, behavior and conservation and donated all proceeds from sales to The Leatherback Trust. He is a professor of environmental science at Drexel and director of its Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. He worked in the Clinton Administration as Chief Environmental Scientist for the Department of the Army.

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Goodwin College of Professional Studies

Staurowsky is an expert in the areas of social justice issues in sport, gender equity in sport, Title IX pay equity and equal employment opportunity, athlete exploitation, college sport reform, and misappropriation of American Indian imagery in sport.

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College of Arts and Sciences

Stokes holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Rutgers University and is an associate professor of sociology at Drexel University. He has published numerous scholarly articles, book chapters and technical reports in the areas of urban redevelopment, public safety planning, environmental sustainability planning and the public health impacts of mass transit. He has conducted several funded research studies, most recently with researchers from the RAND Corporation. Stokes teaches courses in urban planning and policy, community development, criminology, research methods and data analysis.

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iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology

Stoyanovich’s research focuses on collecting and presenting data in new and unique ways in order to glean new knowledge from the information. She has worked extensively in collecting, processing and modeling scientific data, specifically in the life sciences. Stoyanovich has published studies about methods of leveraging data about personal preferences and group identification collected from social websites.

School of Public Health

Taylor uses principles in the field of injury prevention and control to address safety issues in health care settings and in certain occupational groups, including firefighters. Taylor’s research unites evidence from the fields of injury prevention and control, quality improvement and occupational safety. She employs an integrated public health approach to these issues through the study of patients, health care workers and the policy environment. As director of the NIH-funded FIRST project at Drexel, she is developing and piloting a comprehensive system to record nonfatal firefighter injuries to better aid prevention efforts.

Prior to her academic appointment, Taylor served 15 years of experience in state government, hospital quality management and the basic sciences.

Earle Mack School of Law

Tibbs is a professor criminal law and procedure. He came to the law school from the Southern University Law Center, where he was an assistant professor of law and director of the Institute for Civil Rights and Justice. He has published scholarly articles in several leading journals on the intersection of race, crime, law and punishment. He is also a legal historian with a special emphasis on the Black Power era, 1965-1980. He is the author of From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, (Palgrave MacMillan 2012).

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Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

Tompkins is an expert in areas of the music industry and record labels. He founded Big Fish Management in 1995 and developed the career of various artists signed to Arista, Blackbird/Atlantic and Sanctuary/BMG Records. Tompkins served as showcase director of the Philadelphia Music Conference from 1997-2001.

Tompkins began his career in A&R working as a scout for Extasy Records (Warner) in 2000. In 2001, he was hired to work as an A&R rep at Columbia Records, where he continued until 2005. While at Columbia, Tompkins is credited with discovering the multi-platinum and three-time-Grammy Award winning artist, John Legend.

While at Drexel, he founded and established Drako Booking, Drexel's student-run booking agency, in 2005. Tompkins has also been involved with the development of the University's MAD Dragon Records, where he is currently serving as the president of the student-run/faculty administered record label.

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The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology

Unsworth is an expert in social media and government/police's use to detect, classify, measure, and track the formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts, as well as community policing, civil courage, security and surveillance, and social control.

Unsworth's research interests are in the areas of information policy, ethics, government information and surveillance studies. Unsworth has conducted research on the use of social categorization in national security policy in historical, international and contemporary contexts. Her work examines the ethical issues behind social categorization, information use and retrieval in government contexts. Current projects include examining the role of citizen participation in government "See something, Say something" campaigns and the ethical implications of and such participation. Her teaching interests focus on issues of access to and critique of government information, information policy and ethics. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington.

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College of Nursing and Health Professions

Volpe is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist whose research focuses on obesity and diabetes prevention, body composition, bone mineral density and mineral metabolism and exercise. She has researched interventions including changing portion sizes in cafeterias and making physical activity more a part of a person’s day to implement changes in behavior.

Volpe is the chair of the Science Board of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, as well as vice president of the American College of Sports Medicine.

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LeBow College of Business

Walkling is internationally known for his research involving corporate governance and corporate acquisitions. He has been listed in the top one percent of more than 12,000 finance authors in terms of academic citations to their work. He is a regular consultant to industry and a leading contributor to the top refereed journals in his field including The Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysisand The Rand Journal of Economics.

Walkling has received numerous awards for best papers in corporate finance and excellence in graduate teaching. In 2008 the Eastern Finance Association awarded him its scholar of the year award.

Goodwin College of Professional Studies

White is a professor of homeland security and security management and director of the Computing Security and Technology program in Drexel’s Goodwin College of Professional Studies. He is a criminologist with an accomplished career in security. Before joining Goodwin College in January 2012, he served as the director of the Institute of Homeland Security at Westfield State University. He was a commissioned officer with the Canadian Forces Military Intelligence Branch (Department of National Defence) and worked for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He also served as an associate consultant in terrorism and intelligence analysis at MONAD Security Audit Systems. Additionally, he has consulted with federal, state, provincial and municipal police services in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

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Department of Psychology

Williams is the former co-host of "The Grimaldi & Williams" show on CBS Radio's "Big Talker" 1210-AM. He has written editorials for both the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News on issues such as crime, race, and politics. Williams moderated a national forum commemorating President Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech. The national forum was held at the National Constitution Center on the very stage where a then-presidential candidate Obama delivered his historic speech on race in America.

Working with Drexel's Goodwin College, Williams teamed up with Mind TV to produce a number of short documentaries highlighting issues related to violence in America. The series aired July 2010 on Mind TV and will be featured periodically until 2012.

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School of Public Health

Yudell is a researcher in the fields of ethics, genomics and the history of public health. His work focuses on the history, risk communication and ethics of autism spectrum disorders, as well as emergency preparedness, vaccines and the history of the race concept in biology.

He is currently writing a book about the history of autism, has a book forthcoming on the history of the race concept in biology and has previously published two books on the mapping of the human genome.

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Richard C. Goodwin School of Technology and Professional Studies

Chef Ziccardi specializes in classical and regional Italian cuisine and culture. He has been a full-time chef instructor in the Hospitality Department at Drexel University in Philadelphia since August 2000.

He holds an associate's degree in Occupational Studies in Culinary Arts from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York; a Bachelor of Science in Hotel/Restaurant Management from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania; and a Certificate of Achievement in Classical Italian Cuisine from The Italian Culinary Institute per Stranieri in Torino, Italy. Ziccardi has held a number of chef positions in the Philadelphia area, Colorado, and Italy. He has worked under some world-renowned chefs, including Jean-Marie Lacroix at The Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia and Jean-FranÁois Taquet of Restaurant Taquet.

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College of Arts and Sciences

During his tenure as director of athletics, Zillmer assisted in the completion of the Walter Spiro Varsity Weight Room, the creation of the Drexel Athletics logo, the Blue Cross Wellness Center, the remodeling of the department's Sport Medicine facility, extensive renovations at the Vidas Athletic Complex, the creation of a new 84,000 square feet Recreation Center, transfer of the Philadelphia Armory to Drexel Athletics, and securing the winning bid for the 2008 Olympic Trials in Table Tennis.

A licensed clinical psychologist, Zillmer is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Personality Assessment, and the National Academy of Neuropsychology for which he also served as president. He has written extensively in the areas of sports psychology, neuropsychology and psychological assessment, having published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and books.

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