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BIOGRAPHICAL
OVERVIEW
Peter M. Litchfield, Ph.D.
Mindful Physiology
Institute
1942 Broadway, Suite 314, Boulder CO 80302 (303) 402-6968 p.litchfield@bp.edu
Dr. Litchfield
has served as a consultant, educator, researcher, lecturer, and entrepreneur
in the fields of healthcare and human performance for more than 30 years,
including the design, planning, development, production, management, and
delivery of academic and professional education curriculum in psychology,
behavioral medicine, and health education: workshops, seminars, short-courses,
certification programs, competency programs, specialty programs, MS degrees
and Ph.D. programs. He is
currently President and CEO of Better Physiology Ltd., a Boulder based company that designs,
develops, and markets self-management instrumentation, education, and
services (2000 Ð present). He is
also Director of Mindful Physiology Institute located in Boulder, Colorado USA.
Dr.
Litchfield has lectured extensively since 1970 throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia to diverse audiences, ranging from
medical schools to corporate groups, on a wide range of subjects including
psychology, behavioral medicine, behavioral physiology, self-regulation
science, biofeedback, professional education, and business planning. Coincident with his entrepreneurial
enterprise in education, he has for 20 years been involved in the design and
development of self-regulation physiological monitoring instrumentation
systems for use by healthcare practitioners, human service professionals,
educators, and researchers.
Dr.
Litchfield served as Executive Director (President) and Chairman of the
Executive Board (1997 - 2000) of Behavioral Physiology Institutes in Bainbridge Island, Washington, a private graduate school
offering Ph.D. and MS degrees in behavioral medicine. During 1981 - 1996 he served as
Executive Director of the Applied Psychophysiology Institutes, a
well-recognized school of continuing education in San Francisco and in Bainbridge Island, which during his tenure provided
hundreds of workshops and certification programs worldwide in the fields of
behavioral medicine and biofeedback for healthcare professionals. During 1976 - 1982 he served as
Director of Proseminar Institute (nonprofit) in San Francisco, at the time the largest and
best-known provider of continuing education in psychology in the nation that
offered more than a 3000 programs during his tenure. He was Assistant Professor of
Psychology (1970 - 1974) and Associate Professor of Psychology with tenure
(1974 - 1981) at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.
Dr.
Litchfield also served as Chairman of the Board of Neurodata Systems Inc.,
1994-1997, which developed physiological monitoring software applications for
both patient and practitioner education.
Other positions included Coordinator (and faculty member) of the
Behavioral Medicine Specialty of the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at
the Rosebridge Graduate School (1982-1986) in Walnut Creek (CA), Acting
Director of Conferences and Institutes at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
(1984), and Principal in Physiodata, Inc. and in Inspiration Technologies
both of which developed software-management physiological monitoring
instrumentation systems.
Dr.
Litchfield earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Portland (1971), his M.A.
degree in psychology from San Diego State University (1969), and his B.A.
degree in psychology from the University of Michigan (1963). His specialty areas lie within the
fields of behavioral medicine, behavioral physiology, behavioral health,
applied psychophysiology, behavioral pharmacology, and research design. Specific areas of expertise include
placebo effects, conditioning theory, drug addiction, biofeedback, and
respiratory behavioral physiology.
Other areas of expertise include business planning/development for
healthcare professionals, and software design/development of educational,
clinical, and research protocols for physiological monitoring and recording.
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