Dr. John A. Romas, MPH, Ph.D., a University of Michigan Graduate, is professor emeriti within the Department of Health Science, Minnesota State University-Mankato. Before retiring in 2010, he was the former department chair administrator of the Health Science Department. In addition to his background and experience in health education and promotion, Dr. Romas has training in counseling psychology and career development. He has worked as a public school teacher/administrator, public health administrator/educator, state health consultant, and small business owner/manager. He has been a well-known speaker, presenter, and health consultant for health care, business, educational organizations, government, and industry in the areas of personal performance, stress reduction, managing change, and health promotion. His Licensure as a Professional Counselor was earned with the State of Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health. Dr. Manoj Sharma, MBBS, PhD, MCHES (R), is a public health physician and educator with a medical degree from the University of Delhi and a doctorate in Preventive Medicine from The Ohio State University. He is currently a tenured Full Professor and Chair of the Social and Behavioral Health program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the School of Public Health and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. In his career, spanning over 35 years, he has trained/taught over 6,000 health professionals. He has worked for local health departments; state health departments/agencies; federal government agencies; nonprofit agencies; professional organizations; and international agencies including governments of other nations in his career. He is ranked in the top one percentile of global research scientists from 176 fields by Elsevier. He has been awarded several prestigious honors including American Public Health Association's Mentoring Award, ICTHP Impact Award, J. Mayhew Derryberry Award, and William R. Gemma Distinguished Alumnus Award at The Ohio State University among others. His research interests are in developing and evaluating theory-based health behavior change interventions, obesity prevention, stress-coping, community-based participatory research, and integrative mind-body-spirit interventions.
