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Chris Duffield, PhD
Contact information: Email: cdiptq@iptq.com
Personal statement: I am a generalist, one of a small group who were influenced by Buckminster Fuller to expand our interests without boundaries, to resist societal pressures to specialize, and to devote our lives to the betterment of humanity through comprehensive science and design initiatives. While we fit with difficulty into normal jobs, we are sometimes recognized for the tremendous value we bring through insight and overview, and by integrating and cross-pollinating between different fields of human endeavor. It has been natural for me to be active and productive in fields as diverse as geology and medicine, technoecology and neuroscience, product design and the physics of information. I'm like a stem cell, fitting in, helping, and adding value wherever I show up. I feel tremendously fortunate to find myself at this major crossroads of global innovation, Stanford and Silicon Valley in the early 2000s. Skills: Creative problem solving, liaison, insight, foresight, intuition, research, writing, and invention. Current roles: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine (2002), and Center for Latin American Studies (2001). Writing, research and teaching related to insulin potentiation therapy (IPT), and other projects. Webhost
for IPTQ.com/IPTQ.org, 1999. Large website about insulin potentiation
therapy (IPT), an important medical innovation that has been ignored for
70 years. Catalyzing national and Cofounder and consultant for a biotech startup developing eyedrops that slow, halt, and may even reverse several aging processes in the eyes.
Science & Technology Consultant, Silicon Valley, 1996.
Venture capital, NASA, research, Previous roles: Visiting
Scholar, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University,
1998-2001. Advanced
Technology Research Associate, Arizona Research Laboratory, Division of
Neural Director of Scientific Research and Co-founder of SANA Medical Institute, Inc., and Vice
Chairman of Medical Renaissance Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, 1987-1992.
Liaison with
Engineering, Design, and Software Consultant, Tucson, Arizona, through
1996. Early
work: Published two review monographs on geothermal and solar energy
technoecology at the Education:
Postdoctoral: Neuroscience, electronics, optical sciences, and business
at University of Arizona; PhD arid lands resource sciences and global technoecology at University of Arizona. MS -- geosciences at University of Arizona. BA geology, liberal arts & sciences, cum laude. Amherst College, Massachusetts. Honors: Presidential Scholar. National Merit Scholar. Sigma Xi scientific society. Rolex Award international finalist. Invited speaker at Royal Nepal Academy of Science & Technology.
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Selected publications:
Talk at Xerox PARC on February 15, 2001 http://murl.microsoft.com/LectureDetails.asp?813 Geothermal technoecosystems and water cycles in arid lands. Monograph, Univ. of Arizona, 1976. Personal interests: Travel. Nature. Solar eclipses. Aviation. Cinema. Jazz. Hiking, trail running. Attending seminars, conferences, and trade shows. The mystical poetry of Rumi and Kabir. Family background: One of my great grandfathers, Selim Franklin, was a founder of the University of Arizona. My mother, Mary Rose Duffield, is a landscape architect and author. My father, Richard Duffield, is an attorney in Tucson, Arizona. And my natural father, Milton Frank, was a high level public affairs officer with the US Air Force, California State University system, and Adelphi University, and was U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. |
