RobertW.JarskiPAPhD

Summary

• Robert Jarski received the Ph.D. in Medical Education (Quantitative and Psychological Foundations) from the University of Iowa, and was fellowship-trained in Medical Education at the Michigan State University Office of Medical Education Research and Development (OMERAD). Following fellowship training he was employed for four years in the University of Iowa Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education (OCRME) and served as a full-time faculty at Johns Hopkins University, Emory University and the University of Florida before coming to Oakland University. For six years he practiced clinically as a certified physician assistant where he advocated the principles of health promotion and disease prevention in his work with patients.
  
  While a full-time faculty at OU for 28 years, Dr. Jarski served as a full professor in the School of Health Sciences, and in 2008 he was granted a secondary appointment in the OU William Beaumont School of Medicine. From 2010 to 2011 he chaired the OU Wellness Committee whose report and recommendations to the president made OU among the nation’s first to adopt a smoke-free campus policy and to allocate employee health insurance benefits based on willingness to practice healthy lifestyle habits.
  
  He was the Founding Director of the OU Complementary Medicine and Wellness Graduate Certificate Program and generated over .5M in research grants and contracts for the School--a significant portion was used to employ seven SHS graduate students as research assistants. He was awarded professor emeritus status in 2013 and continues as a lecturer and research mentor/dissertation advisor for OU students.
  
  He has completed specialized training in behavioral medicine at the Mind-Body Medicine Institute of the Harvard Medical School. He has also taken advanced training with Dr. Bernie Siegel and the ECaP (Exceptional Cancer Patients) psychotherapy staff in New Haven, CT. He is certified in biofeedback and mindfulness-based stress reduction.