Awards:

President's Award by the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, 1996
Appointed a Fellow of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, 2001
Cultural Pluralism Award by the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, 2002
Distinguished Service Award by the Texas Society of Allied Health Professions, 2000.
UTMB Presidential Curriculum Innovation Award, 2005

Current Research Projects:

1. Developing and teaching classes in integrative health care and spirituality.
2. Producing dramatic movies for use in health science education.
3. Clinical patient simulations. See the Worldwide Health Information System Simulation Linkage (WHISSL).
4. Developing simulations for teaching cultural awareness.

Degrees:

A.A., B.A., M.S., Ph.D.

Professional Memberships:

Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions
Sigma Chi, The Scientific Research Society

Offices Held:

Chair, SAHS Faculty Assembly
President, UTMB Faculty Senate

Bio:

Rodger Marion was a California filmmaker who won a CINE Golden Eagle. In graduate school, he learned to program a computer, and trained as a school psychologist, but ended up in the US Air Force, in Texas, teaching reading to basic trainees. Later he got a Ph.D. in psychology and communications, did a lot of computer programming, and wanted to go into educational television. Again he ended up somewhere else. This time he trained interdisciplinary health care teams in rural Kentucky. He came to the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1981. Currently, he is professor of Humanities and Basic Sciences, and assistant dean for academic affairs in the School of Allied Health Sciences. Rodger, and his colleagues, have developed multimedia, instructional software that is used internationally at many colleges and universities. They have received many grants to support their research in using computers in education and developing software. Their current work focuses on developing simulations of international, telemedicine, clinical encounters. And finally, thanks to the wonders of technology that have linked computers and television, he gets to paint again with light and shadow through a camera's lens.