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Rob Kall, M.Ed. Curriculum Vitae Rob Kall, M.Ed. Curriculum Vitae (10/12/01)
- Robert Alan Kall 211 N. Sycamore, Newtown, PA
18940, 215-504-1700 fax 215-860-5374
Hobbies
creek & river fishing/hiking, blues guitar, downhill
triple diamond mogul skiing, racquetball,
jogging, writing, internet surfing, collecting quotations and
antiquarian books on story, myth, mind, science, reference, health and classics
- Listed in Who's Who in America 2000, 2001, 2002
- Listed in Who's who in Health care 1999
Professional Activities
- 2005 Feb
Organized, Chaired 4th StoryCon Summit
Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story
- 2005 Feb
Organized, Chaired presented at the 8th
Meeting on Optimal Functioning
- 2005 Feb
Organized/ Chaired 13th
Futurehealth Winter Brain Meeting
- 2004 Feb
Organized, Chaired 3rd StoryCon Summit
Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story
- 2004 Feb
Organized, Chaired presented at the 7th
Meeting on Optimal Functioning
- 2004 Feb
Organized/ Chaired 12th
Futurehealth Winter Brain Meeting
- 2003 Oct.
Organized, Chaired 2nd StoryCon Summit
Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story
- 2003 Feb
Organized, Chaired presented at the 6th
Meeting on Optimal Functioning
- 2003 Feb
Organized/ Chaired 11th
Futurehealth Winter Brain Meeting
- 2002 Sept.
Organized/ Chaired First StoryCon Summit
Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story
- 2002 Feb Organized, Chaired presented at the
5th Meeting on Optimal Functioning
- 2002 Feb Organized/ Chaired 10th
Futurehealth Winter Brain Meeting
- 2001March Public Information officer for Association for Applied
Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
- 2001Feb Organized, Chaired presented at the
4th Meeting on Optimal Functioning
- 2001
Feb
Organized/ Chaired
9th Winter Conference on Brain Function,
Modification & Training: 66 speakers, 52 workshops
2000Feb Organized, Chaired presented at the
3nd Meeting on Optimal Functioning
2000 Feb Organized/ Chaired 8th Winter Conference on Brain Function,
Modification & Training: 65 speakers, 55 workshops
1999Feb Organized, Chaired presented at the
2nd Meeting on Optimal Functioning
1999 Feb Organized/ Chaired 7th Winter Conference on Brain Function,
Modification & Training:75 speakers, 50 workshops
1998 Feb Organized, Chaired presented at the World’s First
Meeting on Optimal Functioning, with 26 speakers
1998 Feb Organized/ Chaired 6th Winter Conference on Brain Function,
Modification & Training: 75 speakers, 42 workshops
1997 -elected to Board of Directors of Association for Applied Psychophysiology and
Biofeedback (first independently
nominated and elected board member in the organization's 28 year history) for three year
term.
1997 -Organizer 5th Annual Winter Conference on Brain Function,Modification &
Training--
world's largest neurofeedback meeting, 2nd largest biofeedback meeting
1996-March 2000. PR/Public Information Committee Chair Association for Applied
Psychophysiology & Biofeedback
1996 -Organizer World's First Clinical Surface EMG Meeting
1995 -Co-founder and Sysop of Mind Body Sciences Forum on Compuserve
1995 -Originator and co-author of Signalysis Muli-media data acquistion Software
1993 -founder AAPB Non-licensed member section
1993 -co-director AAPB Technology, Development & Support Section
1993 -member of program committee 1994 AAPB 25th annual meeting
1993 -Insurance Chair; PA Soc. Behavioral Medicine & Biofeedback
1992 -Program Co-Chair Spring Meeting Surface EMG Society of North America
1989-pres. Practice Management Consultant
1989-1996. Surface EMG seminar organizer and presenter
1989 Co-author, with Jeff Cram, of C.A.M. (Computer Analyzed Muscle) Scan software
1989 Human subjects review research advisory board member-- Livengrin Foundation
1988 Instructor- Temple University on Stress Management and Biofeedback.
1977-1991 Director/ therapist- Pain & Stress Management Program of Gloria Dei Growth
Opportunity Center, Huntingdon Valley, PA
1978-pres. President/founder- FUTUREHEALTH INC. manufacturer of biofeedback related
materials, publisher (and author) of multi-media biofeedback and behavioral medicine
materials, publisher (and co-author) of biofeedback software. Sponsor and presenter of
seminars.
1985-pres. Executive Producer- MU-PSYCH MUSIC recording label of relaxation positive
uplift music, a subsidiary of FUTUREHEALTH
1984-1986 Executive Director- Behavioral Medicine Inc. a group of pain and stress
treatment clinics in Philadelphia.
1975-1980 Emergency Psychiatric Therapist at Northeast CCMH/MR
1978-79 Biofeedback Research at Temple University
1971-72 Biofeedback research at Pennsylvania State University
PUBLICATIONS, PROFESSIONAL
PRESENTATIONS & RESEARCH
April 3, 2005
Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Austin TX Story
Theory, Myth, Cognitive Science and Positive Psychology as tools for Enhancing
Neurofeedback, Biofeedback. And Personal Growth
March 10,11
Storytelling Conference, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
Using the Powers of Myth and Story
and the Anatomy of Positive Experience to Face the Worst, and Make the Best
happen in your life, work, health, family and community-,
and The World of Story: all
the ways that story touches our lives, our community, our world
Feb 4, 2005
Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story:
Story Consciousness; how
consciousness and understanding change as story media and understanding change
and
Rob Kall Big Pharma and Non-Drug
Health Interventions
Feb 2004
Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology Meeting:
Mythic aspects of
healing and growth processes.
- Feb 2003- Present numerous
(150+) articles published on
http://www.opednews.com/archives%20kall.htm
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- Jan 23 2003 Winter
Brain Meeting plenary presentation:
If you don't Kill Your Client/patient, you haven't done your job.
plenary presentation:
Things Not Yet Done. Blind Spots and the Art of
Possiblity
July 2002 It’s Easy To Tell When The
Iraqi War Will Start...And Why; Op-Ed article. Published
on Saturday, July 20, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
2002 July Speaker: The
Art of Story Conference, Union College
March 2002 Workshop Presenter AAPB Optimal
Functioning and Emotional Intelligence
Oct. 2001
Speaker: Positive Psychology Summit Meeting: Anatomy of Positive Experience
Feb 2001
Presented at 9th annual Winter Brain Meeting: Art and Science of Story in
Personal Growth
July
2000
Presented at Expressive Therapies Annual Meeting: The Art and
Science of Story in Personal Growth & Healing
July 1998 3 articles
in Summer issue (vol 26#2) of Biofeedback newsmagazine of AAPB
The Politics of Self Responsibility: a Major AAPB Legislative Initiative
Announcement of the Biofeedback Beneficiaries Organization: A New Program (proposed by me)
Report from the Public Relations Committee
May 1998 Book- Co-editor
with Mark Shtark: Biofeedback;Theory & Practice BIOPROVLENIYA Vol. 3 (in
Russian)
April 1998 Speaker: National ADDA
(Attention Deficit Disorder Association)
Positive Experience, Emotional Intelligence And Optimal Functioning Skill Building for
ADDers
March 1998 Invited to chair the founding meeting of the international
section of AAPB.
March 1998 Presenter at AAPB Annual Meeting in 3
panels on - Optimal Functioning, -Insurance & Advocacy, - Internet
1998 February Presentations (2) at the World’s First Meeting on Optimal
Functioning
Optimal Functioning; Old wine in a new bottle: a new and old paradigm of biofeedback,
health and functioning
The Varieties of Positive Experience & Good Feelings; Anatomy,Training, Integration
Chaired Panel on the Future of Optimal Functioning
1998 February Presented and Chaired Panels at 6th Winter Conference on Brain
Function, Modification & Training:
Politics of Self Awareness/ discipline & Consciousness
Chair: Optimal Functioning Panel
Chair: Theta Panel
January 1998 article in Biofeedback Magazine:
Optimal Functioning Training: A Different Vision of Biofeedback, Self Regulation and
Applied Psychophysiology
June 1997 Invited Speaker, NJ Biofeedback Society, on New Technologies
and Public Information
March 1997 Presenter at AAPB annual meeting on 2 panels on
-Biofeedback advocacy and -Insurance
July 1996 Presenter at Multiple Intelligences Conference on Emotional
Intelligence organized by Zephyr Press
May 1996 Presentation to Rolling Hills Kindergarden class (Northampton
PA) on smiling.
March 1996 Appointed Public Information Committee Chair, AAPB
Dec 1996 Creation of FUTUREHEALTH, Rob Kall Internet Homepage/Website
March 1995 Organized Panel at APPB 1995 Meeting on Non-Medical
Applications of Biofeedback
Panelists were: Stanley Krippner, James Hardt, Carole Schneider.
Jan 1995
Organizer and Presenter at 3rd Annual Key West EEG Biofeedback Meeting
August 1994 presentation at American Academy of Pain Management
annual meeting, Vancouver Canada
Biofeedback and Positive Experience Training in Pain Management-
Mar 1994 Chair/organizer Panel at AAPB:
Heart & Spirit in Biofeedback with Elmer Green, C. Norman Sheally, Carol Schneider
Jan. 1993 Organizer of 2nd EEG Biofeedback meeting, in Key West Florida
Nov. 1993 Positive Experience Training for Pain NW BF meeting, Banff, Alberta Canada
Nov 1993 Article: It's Time to Get Wired. Biofeedback Magazine (electronic BBS,
Internet, online conferencing)
Oct. 1993 Positive Experience Training with Pain Pts. Poster session, Amer Academy .
Pain Mgmt. Knoxville TN
Sept1993 Book- Co-editor with Mark Shtark: Biofeedback;Theory & Practice
BIOPROVLENIYA (in Russian)
July 1993 Presentation Biosvyaj Rehab Clinic (part of a biofeedback seminar) in
St.
Petersburg Russia:
Biofeedback In America and Emotional self Regulation
July 1993 Presentation Institute of Medical Cybernetics of the Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences, Academgorodok (Novosibirsk)
Siberia, Russia on Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology in America and on Anatomy of
Positive Experience
May 1993 Featured speaker Michigan Society for Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback on
Positive Experience Training
March 1993 Presentation Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback annual
meeting
workshop on Positive Experience Training
Feb. 1993 Featured speaker Biofeedback Society of Maryland, Wash. D.C., Virginia
New Biofeedback Technology and on Positive Experience Training
Feb. 1993 Article in AAPB Biofeedback Magazine: on Clinician Research
Jan. 1993 Organizer of world's first EEG Biofeedback meeting, in Key West Florida
March 1992 Presentation Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback annual
meeting
Short course on Positive Experience Training
July 1992 Positive Experience Training with Pain patients @ FUTUREHEALTH EMG Workshop,
Phila.
July 1991-92 numerous articles on surface EMG and biofeedback in Chiropractic Journal:
- -Do you test sit or test drive a car?
- -Static vs. Dynamic EMG, Spectral analysis & Reimbursement. Kall, Tosh, & Cram
- -A consumer's Guide to diagnostic EMG Software, by Kall
- -Biofeedback In Chiropractic, by Kall
- June 1991 New Jersey Biofeedback Society- Day-long
Featured Speaker:
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Surface EMG & Assessment of Pain
Emotional Self Regulation Training and Biofeedback
- March 1991 Association for Applied Psychophysiology and
Biofeedback annual meeting
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Short course on Emotional Self Regulation
- Feb., 1991 article: Challenging Surface EMG Presentations For the Defense (Law Journal)
vol 33, No.2 Kall & Cram
- Aug. 1990 Chapter in book-- Clinical Surface EMG, Vol.2, edited by Jeffrey Cram
- March 1990 Presentation Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback annual
meeting
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Short course: Advances and Frontiers in Head and Back Pain Assessment. Co-presenters: J.
Cram, R.Tosh
- March 1990 Presentation Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback annual
meeting
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Short course on Emotional Self Regulation
- Nov. 1989 Organizer and chair of Symposium at AABT (Association for the Advancement of
Behavior Therapy):
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THERAPY INSIDE THE BLACK BOX: Identifying and Regulating Emotional, Perceptual And
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Psychophysiological Behavioral Patterns Discussant: Arnold Lazarus, Ph.D.
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Joseph Brady, Ph.D. Arthur Freeman, Ph.D., Robert Kall, M.Ed. Dennis Russo, Ph.D. Gary
Schwartz, Ph.D.
- Sept. 1989 EMI/CAM Scan 3000 Computer analyzed Muscle scan software, co-authored with
Jeff Cram, Ph.D.
- March 1989 Presentation Biofeedback Society of America annual meeting Short course on
Emotional Self Regulation
- 1989 Happiness Response lectures: God's Love
Lutheran Church Cnseling Cntr, Drexel U. Wellness Program, Gwynned Mercy College
- 1989 Feb. Chapter in book, Finding The Calm Within, McGraw Hill, by Keith
Sedlacek
- 1988 March Presentation Biofeedback Society of America annual meeting Short course on
Emotional Self Regulation
- 1988 March Workshop, Marketing and Publicity for Biofeedback co-presented with Keith
Sedlacek, M.D.
- 1988 Happiness Response Lectures: Campbell's
Soup Co. Executive Headquarters, Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
- Nov. 1987 Program Co-Chair Pennsylvania Society of Biofeedback and Behavioral Medicine
- Oct. 1987 Article in Biofeedback Society of America newsletter on Providing The Public
With Information about biofeedback
- 1987 August BIOPRO Software Release #1 (biofeedback software, co-authored with Donald
O'Hair. Used by U.S. Navy, Harvard researchers,
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pain clinics.
- 1986 Nov Program Co-Chair Pennsylvania Society
of Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback
- 1986 Nov Presentation PA Society of Behavioral
Med. & Biofeedback: Emotional Self Regulation
- 1986 March Poster Session , BF Society of America Annual Mtg. I
believe this was the first published report of computerized bilateral EMG
assessment of dynamic activity. Assessment
of Bilateral Computerized Electromyographic Assessment of Back Pain
- 1985 article published in AMERICAN
CHIROPRACTOR: BIOFEEDBACK & Chiropractic
- 1984 audio cassette TAKING STRESS
A.P.A.R.T. (Affective progressive, autogenic Relaxation Training) with K. Sedlacek,
M.D.
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Published by FUTUREHEALTH, Inc. 0ver 20,000 sold
- 1983 May Cover article Writer's Digest : How to Generate Hundreds of Salable Ideas
(word ideas spelled out in lightbulbs)
- 1981 The New Biofeedback. Colomn/article
in April, 1981 OMNI magazine.
- 1980
Athletic Template Feedback To Enhance Performance. Poster Session Biofeedback Society of
America Annual Meeting
- 1980-present Numerous articles on health and science for consumer and professional
magazines, including American Chiropractor,
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Biofeedback Magazine, Brain/Mind Bulletin, Chiropractic Journal, Family Health, For The
Defense (Law Journal,) Family Health,
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OMNI magazine (10 articles), Physical Therapy Forum, Success, Writer's Digest.
- 1977 Articles in Philadelphia Drummer Newspaper on Biofeedback and on Brain Laterality
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- Media Coverage of Rob and his Work:
- Buzzflash, Thom
Hartmann Show, The Tony Show (Tony Trupiano) COOKING LIGHT, BOTTOM LINE
PERSONAL:HEALTH, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, ABC MORNING NEWS, CABLE NETWORK
NEWS, OMNI, DISCOVER, WOMEN'S WORLD, NEW YORK TIMES, AM PHILADELPHIA, EVENING MAGAZINE,
PHILA. INQUIRER, Knight Ridder syndicated column, BBC, numerous radio interview
and call-in talk shows, as well as articles published in Japanese, Russian, Spanish,
Italian, Korean, German, French, Polish and Sanskrit.
Education
1977-1979 Temple
University M.Ed. Counseling Psychology
1972-1975 Temple U., Lasalle College, St. Joseph's College
Science courses for Pre-med: Org Chem, Biochem, Endocrinology, Physics
1968-1972 Pennsylvania State University. B.A. Psychology
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