Michelle Christides, Director Research and Distance Ed. Curriculum, manages CEUProHealthcare, the Nursing section, and does the research and writing for all our courses, with the exception of the passages on Acupuncture in that section's courses. She is a former Adjunct Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Western Civilization and Jungian psychotherapist from Massachusetts. She began her research interests in the scientific advances in Healthcare as she completed her doctoral coursework at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was invited to attend a yearlong core seminar, "Psycho-Social Correlates of Medicine," in the experimental program funded by Johnson & Johnson "to humanize medical education." She taught cross-cultural communications at the Federal Government's employee training agency, the U.S.D.A. Graduate School, in Washington, D.C. She received her faculty certification in Distance Education Curriculum Design from USDA Grad School and her certificate in Web Development and Design.

After moving to Florida, she was certified by Shands Hospital, the University of Florida--Gainesville, in Arts-in-Healthcare. She is currently conducting cultural programs as clinical studies into their impact on the health of older adults, which she first learned about while on contract as a Senior Associate Writer with NIH. These studies were pioneered by Dr. Gene Cohen, Director of Center on Aging Health and Humanities, George Washington University Medical School.   Prof. Christides presents an Open Studio for Art and Crafts to Parkinson's patients and teaches "Jung and Western Civilization" each winter at the Pierian Spring Academy, an intellectual community of retired professionals in Sarasota. She is a full-time artist in oils and invites you to see her paintings on her Open Studio web site.