Dr. Craig Hofford received his doctoral degree in health education with a specialty in stress management education from the University of Maryland in 1989. His areas of expertise include stress management, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, and health behavior change. He joined what is now known as Department of Health & Exercise Science (HES) at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in the Fall of 1990 and has taught courses in Personal Health and Wellness, Comprehensive Stress Management, Drug Education and Health Promotion Program Planning. In addition, he served as advisor to the Health & Sport Sciences Majors Club and was webmaster for the departmental web page. Before joining the faculty at Oklahoma, he was Assistant Dean in the College of Health and Human Performance at the University of Maryland and Coordinator of Corporate Health Promotion at Arlington Hospital in Virginia. Since that time he has been Primary Investigator for 2 U.S. Department of Education grants that focused on alcohol, tobacco, other drug, and violence prevention on the OU campus as well as across a region that includes Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. Over his 30+ professional years, he has conducted stress management seminars and workshops for a variety of age groups, and in educational as well as clinical settings. Over the two decades, he has become actively involved in the North American Native wellness movement by participating in and helping to facilitate conferences and trainings conducted by Health Promotion Programs, an OUTREACH program within the Public and Community Services Division of the College of Continuing Education. In September (2000), he was appointed as Director of that program and will serve in that capacity up to his return to full-time HES faculty status in August of 2006. Craig and his wife Paula live on a ranch in Lexington, OK with their dogs, cats, horses and donkey. Paula works as a business development specialist for Benham Infrastructure and Environmental, an engineering consulting firm located in Norman.
CRAIG W. HOFFORD, Ph.D.
DIRECTOR, HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS (HPP)
COLLEGE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HEALTH PROMOTION
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & EXERCISE SCIENCE (HES)
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA