Renee Axiotis
Assistant Professoriaxiotis@kent.edu
316 White Hall
Area: HS
Following graduation with a B.A. in psychology from Kent State University, I began an assistantship in health education at Kent State. Two years later, I graduated with a master's degree in community health education and, in 1996, earned a doctorate in curriculum and instruction (health education emphasis) from Kent State as well. From 1988 until 1997, I was the director of the Office of Student Health Promotion for KSU Health Services. In 1997, I joined the faculty at Ashland University, where I stayed for five years. In order to better accommodate other life responsibilities, relocation closer to the north coast of Ohio was necessary and I resigned from Ashland in 2002. I spent one year as a visiting professor at the University of Akron and have been on a non-tenure track line in health education at KSU since 2004. I am a licensed teacher in Ohio in K-12 health and was a substitute teacher at all grade levels in the Nordonia Hills school district. In addition, I served on Nordonia's district-wide wellness committee and was co-chair of the committee for one year. Recently, I completed a 16 month project directorship on a $370,000 state-wide, college-based tobacco prevention and cessation grant, in which KSU participated as a pilot site. I have published articles in journals ranging from Developmental Psychobiology to the Journal of American College Health.
Dr. Donna Bernert
Assistant Professordbernert@kent.edu
316N White Hall
Area: HS
<p>Dr. Bernert received her PhD from Southern Illinois University. Prior to joining the HEDP faculty at Kent State University, she held various teaching and administrative positions for 10 years in the public schools. She is licensed in Ohio to teach special education, early childhood education, elementary education, and health education. As a former special education teacher, she has a passion for health education and promotion for students with disabilities, as well as sexuality education. She has both taught sexuality education and worked as a sexuality educator. Dr. Bernert has conducted research, published, and presented her work involving sexuality and disability. She currently is working on the national level to initiate a community of practice for public school disability professionals that addresses sexuality and youth with disabilities. She also has a passion for Kent State University, receiving her BS (1986) and MA (1997) degrees form here. To return to the university once again as faculty has been a wonderful professional opportunity and privelege, and she looks forward to giving back quality educational experiences as a faculty member she received here as a student. </p>
Dr. Kele Ding
Assistant Professorkding@kent.edu
316 White Hall
Area: HS
vita [pdf] | http://www.personal.kent.edu/~kding/
As of August 2005, I am a new faculty member in EHHS in the Department of Adult, Counseling, Health, and Vocational Education. I am teaching Epidemiology and Application of Behavior Theory in Fall 2005. Prior to working at Kent State University, I was with the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Idaho State University (ISU) since 2000. At ISU, I taught Personal Health, Health Aging, Epidemiology, Community Health, Environmental Health, Alternative Medicine, Biostatistics, SPSS, Substance Abuse, International Health, Infectious Disease, and other subjects.
