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Lawrence Edwin Dodds, M.D., M.P.H.

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Professional Roles

• Vice-president and Director of medical services, Heartstream Resources, beginning 1992.

• Director of Ventura County Public Health Services and County Health Officer,  June, 1986 to October, 1993. 

• Adjunct professor, Azusa Pacific University: Operation Impact Overseas Extension Courses (a master's level Resource Development course), teaching health promotion classes in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Switzerland, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Summers of 1987 until present.

• Medical Coordinator, Ventura County Public Health Services, Sept. 1983 to June 1986.

• Family practice and general medicine in Peru with Summer Institute of Linguistics, Aug. 1971 to August 1983.

• Family Practice, July, 1969 to August 1971.

• Flight Surgeon, U.S. Army, Aug. 1964 to May, 1967, including

U. S. President Lyndon Johnson's Flight Detachment, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Naval Flight Training School and Space and Aviation Medicine, Pensacola, Florida.

 
Education

• Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine with specialty in Preventive Medicine and Public Health

• Master of Public Health: Loma Linda University, School of Public Health June, 1990 (specializing in Health Promotion).

• Chief Resident, Family Practice residency: Ventura County General Hospital, Ventura, California, July, 1967 to June, 1969.

• School of Aviation Medicine, Pensacola Florida, Jan - June, 1965.

• Advanced Medical Field Training Course: Ft. Sam Houston Texas, Jan - May, 1966.

• Basic Medical Field Training Course: Ft. Sam Houston Texas, Aug-Sept., 1964.

• Rotating internship, Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena California, July, 1963 to June 1964.

• University of Southern California, School of Medicine, 1959-1963.

• Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, BS in Zoology 1959.

Memberships

• Member of Recodification Task Force for California Department of Health Services to  re-write the California Health and Safety Code

• Member of California State Maternal and Child Health Advisory Board

• California Conference of Local Health Officers

• Health Officer's Association of California

• Tuberculosis Control Officers Association of California

• Member of Board of Directors of American Cancer Society, Ventura County, 1985-1988

• Board of Directors of Bible Fellowship Counseling Center 1985-1990 (secretary and as president of board)

• Member of Executive Committee of Child Development Resources Ventura County (parent organization of HeadStart and Children's Home Services), 1983-1988

• Board of Elders of Bible Fellowship Church, 1984-1987

• Elected elder for life in Bible Fellowship Church, Ventura, California, 1984-1994

Languages:  Fluent in speaking and reading Spanish

Honors: Wheaton College Honor Society

 
Experience with S.I.L. Peru

• Director of Public Relations in Lima representing the work of SIL to governmental and educational agencies June 1982 - Aug. 1983

• Acting director of Peru branch for several months in absence of director

• Director of medical facility at Yarinacocha Peru for 5 years.

• Member of Executive Committee Peru Branch for a total of 6 years.

• Speaker for Wycliffe Associates fund raising tour 1979.

• Physician at Yarinacocha Peru: tropical medicine, communicable disease, training of health workers.

• Devotional committee member and chairman at Yarinacocha

• Taught adult classes for Marriage and Family, cross-cultural communication, and health promotion in Yarinacocha and in Union Church, Lima, Peru

 
Professional Presentation

"Caring for People in Missions:  Just Surviving--or Thriving?  Optimal Care for The Long Haul."  Plenary session.  IFMA/EFMA Personnel Conference, Dec. 4-6, 1997.  Orlando, Florida.  (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"Selection, Training, Member Care and Professional Ethics."  IFMA/EFMA Personnel Conference, Dec. 4-6, 1997.  Orlando, Florida.  (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"Stressed from Core to Cosmos:  Issues and Needs Arising from Cross-cultural Ministry." AACC World Congress on Christian Counseling.  Dallas, Texas, November 4-7, 1997.

(with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"Am I Still Me?  Changing the Core Self to Fit a New Cultural Context.  AACC World Congress on Christian Counseling.  Dallas, Texas, November 4-7, 1997.  (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"Intensive Care Community: A Model Between Hospitalization and Traditional Counseling."  American Association of Christian Counseling, Washington, D. C., March 8, 9, 1996.  (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"Making Sense of All The Theories: Psychotherapy, the Holy Spirit and the Experiential Learning Cycle."  American Association of Christian Counselors, Pittsburgh, September 22, 23, 1995. (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"Stressed from Core to Cosmos: Needs and Issues Arising from Cross-cultural Ministry." American Association of Christian Counselors, March 22, 23, 1995, Philadelphia, and

Pittsburgh AACC September 22, 23, 1995. Later published in Christian Counseling newsletter, fall, 1995.  Presented again by invitation to ACMC in various regional meetings.  (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)

"How People Get Sick and Wounded:  Levels of Prevention and Intervention."  (earlier title was "Model for Disease Progression, Prevention and Intervention: Physical and Psychological."  Annual Mental Health and Missions Conference, November 20, 21, 1993, Indiana.  (with Lois Dodds, Ph. D.)