My work in public relations and marketing has ranged from serving as a public information officer for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to joining a Web marketing team at Media Forte Marketing in Hood River, Oregon. I was also a public affairs representative for Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, and have done some freelance marketing consulting and copywriting.

A partial client list includes:
• Swaddlekeeper.com, Hood River, OR
• GreenShipping.com, Hood River, OR
• Copper West Real Estate, Hood River, OR
• University of Portland, Portland, OR
• Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• Kathy West Acupuncture, Portland, OR
• Bucks County, PA
• Fair Isaac Inc., San Rafael, CA

In addition, I produced three health-related books while on staff at Future Medicine Publishing in Tiburon, California, now Innovision Health Media Inc. in Boulder, Colorado.

Those are:

“Alternative Medicine Magazine’s Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders,” second edition, 2007, Random House, N.Y. Here is a link on Amazon:

“Alternative Medicine Magazine’s Guide to Women’s Health,” Vols. I and II, 1998, Future Medicine Publishing, Tiburon, CA.

I hold current acupuncture and Chinese medicine licenses in Oregon and Washington and I am certified with the National Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. For four years, I wrote a monthly holistic health column, “Your Alternatives,” for newspapers in California and Washington.

Here is a link to some of those columns.

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