EDITOR

Joan L. Headley, MS, a polio survivor, graduated from Huntington College, Huntington, Indiana, in 1969 with a degree in biology. In 1974, she received her MS in Education from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has been executive director of Post-Polio Health International (PHI) since 1989. Before joining GINI (now PHI) in 1987, 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.

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STAFF

In addition to Joan L. Headley, Post-Polio Health International (PHI) currently employs two other full-time staff persons whose responsibilities are many and varied.

 

 

Sheryl R. Rudy worked on the Rehabilitation Gazette for Gini Laurie at Just Your Type in the '70s and as a freelance designer on GINI's (now PHI's) publications throughout the '80s. In 1996, she joined PHI as fulltime in-house designer and is now also the webmaster for PHI.

 

 

 

 

Maria J. Gray joined the staff in November 2005. Gray has over 20 years of experience working as an assistant within disability and medical-oriented organizations.

 

  

 

Judith Raymond Fischer, MSLS, retired as editor of Ventilator-Assisted Living (formerly IVUN News) at the end of 2005, but continues to serve IVUN as Information Specialist.