Belzer

John A. Belzer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, Oklahoma Geriatric Education Center
Director of Education, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
P.O. Box 26901, VAMC (11G)
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
Telephone: (405) 271-8558
Facsimile: (405) 271-3887
E-mail: john-belzer@ouhsc.edu

EDUCATION:

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified to test, score and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Certified Instructor in Police Management by the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1989 - Present Associate Director, Oklahoma Geriatric Education Center (Ok GEC), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

1997 - Present Assistant Professor and Director of Education, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatric Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve (Retired)

1998 - Present Faculty for the Nursing Home Administrators School sponsored by the Oklahoma State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators

1995 - Present Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration, University of Oklahoma College of Public Health

1993 - 1999 Member of the Board of Directors for the Oklahoma Center on Aging

1990 - Present Facilitator for the Faculty Leadership Program, OU College of Medicine, Office of the Executive Dean

1990 Faculty Consultant for the Veterans Administration Salt Lake City Regional Medical Education Center (SL REMC)

1990 Faculty Consultant for the Veterans Administration Oklahoma City Medical Center

1989 Adjunct Faculty, Sociology Department, University of Central Oklahoma

1988 - Present Human Resource Program Development and Evaluation Consultant

1980 - 1988 Training Officer, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI)

1979 - 1980 Teacher, Putnam City Central Junior High School, Oklahoma City, OK

1967 - 1978 Military Intelligence Officer, U.S. Army (active duty)

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:

$51,415 contact from the Aging Services Division of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services to develop a curriculum for an Academy for Senior Advocates, 1997

$28,294 from the Central Oklahoma Economic Development District ,Area Agency on Aging for Health Promotion Program development. 1993.

Assisted in writing a $641,690 Geriatric Education grant to the Bureau of Health Professionals of the U.S. Public Health Service. Funded in 1992.

Assisted in writing a $821,361 Geriatric Education grant to the Bureau of Health Professionals of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1994. Approved but not funded.

Assisted in writing a $422,000 Geriatric Education grant to the Bureau of Health Professionals of the U.S. Public Health Service. Funded October 1995

Principal writer of a $39,156 proposal to the Oklahoma State Department of Health to conduct pressure sore education classes for staffs of nursing homes in Oklahoma, 1995. Not Funded

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Interdisciplinary team work
Developing and maintaining effective teams
Self-Neglect as a factor in adult abuse
Leadership development using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a tool

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

PUBLICATIONS:

Allen, M., Belzer, J., The Use of Microteaching to Facilitate Teaching Skills of Practitioners Who Work With Older Adults, Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 1997, 18(2), pp. 77-86.

Belzer, J., Review of Life Support Decisions: A Guide to Self-Determination. The Gerontologist, 1994, 34(4), pp. 573 -574.

McFall, S., Yerkes, A., Belzer, J., Cowan, L., Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Life in Older Women: A Community Demonstration In Oklahoma, Journal of Family and Community Health, 1994, 17(1), pp. 64 - 75.

Belzer, J., Police vs. Criminalists vs. The General Public: Is It Really Us Against Them? Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists Journal, 1988, 10(1), pp. 3-7.

Belzer, J., Teaching in Correctional Settings: An Examination of Training and Resource Needs. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Oklahoma, 1988.

SERVICE:

2001 - Member of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives Administrative Rule Review Committee, Sub-Committee on Aging
2000 - Present Hospice Volunteer
1999 - Present Member of the Board of Trustees for the Long Term Care Authority of Enid, currently the vice-chairman
1999 - 2000 Member of the Board of Directors of the Area Wide Aging Agency
1998 - Present Member of Geriatrics Task Force for the Oklahoma State Medical Association
1998 - Present Member of the Palliative Care Committee for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
1998 - Present Poster Chairman for the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) annual meeting
1997 - 2001 Member of the Vestry for Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Shawnee, OK
1996 - Present Habitat for Humanity volunteer
1994 - Present Aging Mental Health Advisory Committee for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
1994 - 1997 Building Family Connections, advisory committee for the State Cooperative Extension Service
1994 - Present Metropolitan Oklahoma City Transportation Coalition
1994 - 1996 Board member of the State of Oklahoma Minority Task Force
1990 - 1992 Board of Directors for the ARK Family Shelter
1988 - 1990 Member of the Oklahoma County Child Abuse Prevention Task Force
1987 Member of the Advisory Committee to the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training

PRESENTATIONS:

June 2002 Fraud Against the Elderly, Panel member OETA television broadcast, Oklahoma City, OK.
June 2002 How We Die, Medical Grand Rounds for Clergy, Oklahoma Health Center Clinical Pastoral Education Institute, Oklahoma City, OK
June 2002 Spirituality in Health Care, 13th Annual Summer Geriatric Institute, Norman, OK.
February 2002 Developing Clinical Teaching Skills in a Problem Based Geriatric Curriculum, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
June 2001 Adult Abuse: Self-neglect, 12th Annual Summer Geriatric Institute. Norman, OK.
March 2001 Last Hours of Life, Medical Ground Rounds for Clergy, Oklahoma Health Center Clinical Pastoral Education Institute, Oklahoma City, OK.
February 2001 Outcomes of an Academic Home Care Program with 4th Year Medical Students, M. Bernard, J. Belzer, and K. Neal, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual meeting.
September 2000 Building Successful Teams, 2nd Annual American Indian Elders Conference, Oklahoma City, OK.
June 2000 Taking a Spiritual History, 11th Annual Summer Geriatric Institute, Norman, OK.
June 2000 Advanced Planning for End-of-Life Care, 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Student Summit, sponsored by the Southeast Oklahoma Area Health Education Center.
November 1999 Gaps in End-of-Life Care, Southwest Society on Aging Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK.
August 1999 The Interdisciplinary Team, American Indian Elders Conference, Oklahoma City, OK.
October 1998 Dealing with Stress, the Oklahoma Mental Health and Aging Coalition Meeting.
October 1998 Advocacy: How to Become an Advocate, the 1998 Oklahoma City Mayor's Conference on Disability Concerns, Oklahoma City, OK.
May 1998 Dealing With Stress In a Changing World, Part II, 24th Annual State Conference on Aging, Oklahoma City, OK.
February 1998 Introducing Health Professions Students to Interdisciplinary Care, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education's 1998 Annual Educational Leadership Conference, Winston-Salem.
May 1997 Dealing With Stress In a Changing World, 23rd Annual State Conference on Aging, Oklahoma City, OK.
August 1996 Dynamics of Interdisciplinary Teams, OKC VA Extended Care Unit (ECU).
April 1996 Training Nurses to Teach a Program Designed to Combat Urinary Incontinence in Older Women, J.A. Belzer, C. Barr, & M. Bernard, poster session at the 17 Annual Meeting of the Southern Gerontological Society.
February 1996 The Use of Microteaching In The Geriatric Education Of Health Professionals Who Work With Older Adults, M.E. Allen and J. Belzer, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual Meeting.
November 1995 Social Marketing for the Difficult-to-Market Topic, C.W. Barr, J. Belzer, S.L. McFall, E. Slagle & A. Yerkes, 48th Annual Gerontology Society of America Meeting.
July 1995 Interdisciplinary Geriatric Assessment In The Primary Care Setting, 14th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Primary Care Association.
July 1995 Developing Listening Skills: The First Step In Caring, Sixth Annual Summer Geriatric Institute.
May 1995 Developing Interdisciplinary Teams, Ninth Annual Elder Care Conference.
February 1995 A Model For The Education of Community Physicians in the Agency For Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) Guidelines, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual Meeting.
October 1994 The Health Care of Older Native Americans, for the Southwest Society on Aging Annual Conference.
September 1994 Team building: Improving Working Relationships Through Understanding of Personality Differences, for the Oklahoma Child Support Enforcement Association.
June 1994 Personality Type: What Difference Does It Make?, the Oklahoma Occupational Therapy Association's Annual Meeting.
June 1994 Who Says Older People Don't Have Stress?, the Oklahoma Geriatric Education Center's Summer Geriatric Institute.
June 1994 Working Together As An Interdisciplinary Team, the Oklahoma Geriatric Education Center's Minifellowship program.
May 1994 Personality as a Factor in Team Building, the Oklahoma State Conference on Aging.
April 1994 Personality Type As A Factor In Selection Of A Medical Specialty, Family Medicine Interest Group, Department of Family Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
April 1994 Listening Skills for Health Care Professionals, the Oklahoma Health Care Association.
February 1994 Aging and Developmental Disabilities, Faculty Associate Seminar for the University Affiliated Program of Oklahoma.
February 1994 Interdisciplinary Team Training, OKC VA Hospital Based Home Care team.
January 1994 Communication Style and Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Faculty Leadership Program.
December 1993 Interdisciplinary Team Training, select faculty Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
September 1993 Interdisciplinary Team Training, OKC VA Hospital Hospice Task Force.
September 1993 Interdisciplinary Team Training, Shawnee Regional Hospital Discharge Planning Team.
June 1993 Interdisciplinary Team Training, OkGEC Minifellowship.
July 1992 Interpersonal Communication and Leadership Styles, The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.
May 1992 Elder Group Management, National Conference on Rural Aging.
1991 & 1992 Rewarding Personnel and Effective Team Functioning, for staff of O'Donoghue Rehabilitation Institute.
1991 - 1992 Communication Styles and Total Quality Management, for the staff of the Oklahoma Military Department.
1991 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in Medicine, for Occupational Medicine residents, Department of Family Medicine, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center.
1991 & 1992 Character-typing, presented at the Faculty Leadership Program for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
1991 Mental Changes and Aging: What's Normal, What's Not, presented at the O'Donoghue Rehabilitation Institute's 1991 Spring Clinical Day.
1990 Personality Type and Hospital Management, presented to the division heads of the Oklahoma City Veterans Administration Medical Center.
1990 Health Education: Health Care for the Elderly, presented for the Veterans Administration in Oklahoma City.
1990 Personality Type and Selection of Medical Residency. Presented to the Family Medicine Interest Group, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine.

SPECIAL TRAINING:

1998 Selected as an instructor for the Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC).
1991 Graduate of the National Leadership Institute on Aging, sponsored by the Administration on Aging (AOA).
1987 U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS.
1985 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Qualifying Course, The Association for Psychological Type.
1984 New Approaches to Individual and Organizational Development (Phases I & II) Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management.
1984 The Sexually Abused Child, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
1983 How to Conduct On-The-Job Training, Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management.
1983 The Training Specialist As An Internal Consultant, Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management.
1982 The Design and Delivery of a Training Program (Phase I & II), Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management.
1982 Systematic Training Needs Assessment and Evaluation (Phase I & II), Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management.

Updated 9/21/0