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Polio Survivors Available for Interviews
LAWRENCE C. BECKER, PhD (philosophy), president and board chair, Post-Polio Health International. Fellow, Hollins University; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, College of William & Mary. Current philosophical work on disability, disadvantage and theories of justice; positive health and eudaimonistic ethics; stoic ethics. Recent service on advisory boards at NIH: medical rehabilitation research (2001-2005), TBI clinical trials (2003-2007). Books authored include Property Rights (1977), Reciprocity (1986), A New Stoicism (1998). Coeditor, Encyclopedia of Ethics (1st ed. in 2 vols. 1992; 2nd ed. in 3 vols. 2001). Respiratory polio 1952; post-polio syndrome 1986. E-mail: lcbecker@bookwork.net. Office phone: 540-362-6529.
NANCY BALDWIN CARTER, BA, MEd Psych, current columnist, PHI Communiqué; guest contributor, Post-Polio Health newsletter; contributor, Managing Post-Polio: A Guide to Living and Aging Well with Post-Polio Syndrome (2006); Managing Post-Polio: A Guide to Living Well with Post-Polio Syndrome (1998); founder and former director, Nebraska Polio Survivors Association; author, Of Myths and Chicken Feet: A Polio Survivor Looks at Survival; editor, Snapshots: Polio Survivors Remember; former editor, Gleanings, NPSA newsletter; retired educator; post-polio syndrome 1984; polio 1948. To contact Nancy, who resides in CDT time zone, please call 402-895-2475.
JOAN L. HEADLEY, MS, (biology, education), executive director of Post-Polio Health International (PHI) since 1987. Before joining GINI (now PHI), she taught junior high science and high school biology in LaGrange County, Indiana. She edits Post-Polio Health and Ventilator-Assisted Living and co-edited PHI’s Handbook on the Late Effects of Poliomyelitis for Physicians and Survivors©. She has coordinated five of PHI's international conferences and has presented at 50+ meetings. She served as a non-medical member of the Post-Polio Task Force and served on the March of Dimes International Conference executive steering committee. She also is a Master Trainer for the Stanford-based Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP). She had polio in 1948 at 15 months. Email: director@post-polio.org. Office phone: 314-534-0475.
SAUL MORSE is an attorney with the law firm of Brown, Hay & Stephens in Springfield, Illinois. He is also an adjunct faculty member at both Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Springfield. A graduate of the University of Illinois and its law school he was involved in disability related issues while a student and worked on issues of accessibility and employment for those with disabilities. He was appointed to the Illinois Human Rights Commission and served as a Commissioner from1985 to 1991. In 1987 he was one of the drafters of legislation creating the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan, a program to provide health insurance to those who, because of a disability, are unable to secure coverage. From 1987 through 2002 he was a board member of that plan as well as its treasurer. In 2002 he was appointed by the governor to be a member of the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission and has served as its Chair since 2005. The Commission serves as legal advocates for those with cognitive and other disabilities and acts as the Guardian of last resort for individuals unable to handle their own affairs with no family members to assist them. Currently more than 5000 people in Illinois have guardianship's handled by the Commission. He is also the Treasurer of the city of Leland Grove Illinois having been elected three times. He has written and lectured extensively on issues related to health law and disability. Morse is a member of PHI’s Board of Directors and can be reached at saulmorse@sbcglobal.net or by calling 217-544-8491, ext. 303.
ALLISON "SUNNY" ROLLER, MA, a polio survivor, is a recognized post-polio educator and researcher who, now retired, worked during the past twenty years as a research associate, project manager and study co-investigator in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan. Ms. Roller has authored a variety of articles on the late effects of polio, including "To Reap the Rewards of Post-Polio Exercise" and contributed to PHI's Handbook on the Late Effects of Poliomyelitis for Physicians and Survivors©. She has written a variety of published professional articles, personal essays, and book chapters; edited an instructor's manual for a holistic wellness program for people who had polio; and presented at national and international post-polio conferences.
Most recently she was awarded a Mary Switzer Fellowship from the US Department of Education to investigate the successful late life adaptation strategies of polio survivors. She serves as a peer reviewer for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and on the Board of Directors for Post-Polio Health International (PHI).
In 1997, the Regents of Central Michigan University awarded Ms. Roller an honorary MD degree for her pioneering work in the field of post-polio disability and wellness. To contact Sunny by email, write to elsol@umich.edu.
DANIEL J. WILSON, PhD, Professor of History at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Author of Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors (University of Chicago Press, 2005); co-editor with Julie K. Silver, MD, Polio Voices: An Oral History of the American Polio Epidemics and Worldwide Eradication Effort (Praeger, 2007). Member Post-Polio Support Group of the Lehigh Valley (PA) and editor of its newsletter PPSG Chronicles. Polio 1955; Post-Polio Syndrome 1987. Contact: Phone, 484-664-3323; e-mail, dwilson@muhlenberg.edu.