David G. Altman

David G. Altman, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President of Research, Innovation and Product Development at the Center for Creative Leadership (www.ccl.org). He is also Adjunct Professor of Public Health Education and UNCG. Previously, he spent 20 years in academia, 10 years as Professor (and Associate Professor) of Public Health Sciences and of Pediatrics at The Wake Forest University School of Medicine and 10 years as a Senior Research Scientist (and Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate) at the Stanford University Center for Research in Disease Prevention in Palo Alto, California. He has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and several books.

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