Rodger Marion was a California filmmaker who won a CINE Golden Eagle. In graduate school, he learned to program a computer, and trained as a school psychologist, but ended up in the US Air Force teaching reading to basic trainees. Later, he earned a Ph.D. in psychology and communications, did a lot of computer programming, and wanted to go into educational television. Again he ended up somewhere else. This time he trained interdisciplinary health care teams in rural Kentucky.
He has been active in health science education since 1975, and came to the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in 1981. Currently, he is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Basic Sciences, a member of the graduate faculty in Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and an Adjunct Professor of Health Informatics at the UT Health Sciences Center in Houston. Through the UT TeleCampus, he teaches graduate courses in research skills and the cultural and religious aspects of suffering. Until September 2007, he was the assistant dean in the UTMB School of Allied Health Sciences. He was the chairman of the SAHS Faculty Assembly, and was the founding President of the UTMB Faculty Senate.
He was made a Fellow of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions and received both the Cultural Pluralism Award and the President's Award. Dr. Marion has also been twice president of and honored for outstanding leadership by the Texas Society of Allied Health Professions.
He still programs computers. Rodger and his colleagues have have received numerous grants for research about the use of computers in education and developed web-based, multimedia, instructional software that is in use at many colleges and universities. And finally, thanks to the wonders of technology that have linked computers and movies, he again gets to paint with light and shadow through a camera's lens.
Contact Rodger via email or you can set up a video conference through his virtual office. Make arrangements for a meeting time via email.
Details: You need speakers and a microphone or a headset with an attached microphone. vRoom requires that Sun's Java Web Start is installed on your computer. If you do not have Java Web Start, you will be provided with instructions on how to install it prior to joining the vRoom. The installation process is fairly quick and painless. Once it starts, you will see, under Participants, my name and yours. The text chat box is right under the participants box. And the Talk button is under that. The video window is supposed to open automatically. However, there is a button at the top with a picture of a camera with a green triangle. Click on that to open the video window.
