• "Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator"

Published online by AATH (1/2004):

"Research Critiques Incite Words of Mass Destruction"

(also available in PDF format at http://aath.org/downloads/berkrarticle.pdf

RONALD A. BERK, PhD CNN BBC DNA, is Professor of Biostatistics and Measurement at the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University. He served as Assistant Dean for Teaching from 1997-2003. He has received numerous teaching awards and was inducted as a Fellow in the Oxford Society of Scholars in 1998. Since that date, he has been in the Federal Witness Protection Program living in Maryland under the name Britney Spears. He has served 28 years of a life term at Johns Hopkins, 11 years in the Division of Education and 17 years in the School of Nursing, where he has mentored numerous faculty and hundreds of students, all of whom unfortunately are in prison now. He has written a monthly humor column, "Ask Mister Humor Person," for health professionals in the newsletter MedWorldNEWS (http://medcareers.com) and has published 8 books, including 2 on humor: Professors Are from Mars, Students Are from Snickers (Stylus, 2003) and Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator (Stylus, 2002). The quality of those books and his more than 250 journal publications and presentations reflects his life-long commitment to mediocrity and his professional motto: "Go for the Bronze!"
 
Ron is available to speak on humor at a variety of professional venues, including conferences, workshops, retreats, business meetings, commencements, picnics, and cruises.