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Sr. CAROL HUSS, Ph.D., is a Fellow of
the American College of Hospital Administrators and a
Medical Mission Sister with over 35 years of experience
in health care in India as a nurse, midwife, and
administrator. She has been trainer, consultant and
programme manager of health care administration education
at the Voluntary Health Association of India in New
Delhi, a member of the visiting faculty at the University
of Delhi, in MBA evening courses in health care
administration, and, since 1980, directing
‘Alternative Strategies of Health Care’through
one-week and one month courses at the Holistic Health
Centre, Pune. Sr.Huss is the author of ‘Indian
Hospitals: Planned Organisational Change in their
Structure and Function’ (VHAI,1975) and a
contributor to several journals of Holistic Health. Her
most recent contributions include ‘Management
Process in Health Care’.(VHAI,1982), the first
comprehensive book on this topic produced in India,
‘Holistic Health Work Book’, 1988, and
‘Banyan Tree’. Vol.1,1989. MEERA IYENGAR has a Masters
Degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Bombay and specialises in Family and Child
Welfare. She has worked as a social worker in a family
welfare agency, as a teacher of economics before taking
special training in the teaching of the handicapped and
working as a special teacher in a school for the
disabled. She was working on research projects at the
Holistic Health Centre, Pune while training as a Holistic
therapist, whenshe wrote Chapter 9: Laws and Legal Aid
for Social Action. At present she is working for a
women’s action group in Indore.
RENU KHANNA has a
Masters Degree in Business Adminstration, a B.A. (Hons)
in Economics, and is a Special Member in the Application
of Transactional Analysis to Management and Reorientation
of Health Care Organisations. She has worked on several
health care projects including Christian Medical College
at Ludhiana. Since 1984 she has been a trainer, resource
person and resource linker for dissemination of improved
cookstoves among rural women, for organising urban women
wastepickers and on environmental conservation and rural
development. Her other active concerns have been healing,
personal growth related work and traditional health
practices. She has co-authoured the ‘Management
Process in Health Care’.
Sr. STEPHANIE MAAS,
a Medical Mission Sister has doen Nursing and Midwifery.
After some years of practice, she did her M.S.R. in
Radiography, diagnostic and therapeutic. She worked in
the Middlesex Hosipal in London and completed her post
graduation in Radiography and teachers certificate. Her
main intersts are teaching and working in the medical
field. She is interested in alternative medicines as it
gives a ray of hope the masses to find some relief,
whenever they become sick.
Sr. CELINE PAYYAPPILLY
has degrees in Nursing and Nursing Administration from
Delhi and Chandigarh and a Masters Degree in Holistic
Health from U.S.A. She has had 18 years of professional
experience as a Medical Mission Sister in nursing at all
levels at Holy Family Hospital, Patna, including six
years in charge of out-patients, 10 years as Assistant
Nursing Superintendent and two years as Nursing
Superintendent. She has trained in and now teaches a wide
rang of holistic therapies at the Holistic Health Centre,
Pune, which includes acupressure, reflexology,
therapeutic touch, applied kniesiology, whole brain
learning, zen shiatsu, acu-pressure massage and acu-yoga
and is coordinator of ongoing workshops in human
relations communications, personal growth and Stress
Management. She is presently working on her doctorate in
Holistic Health, on a new methodology for clinical
research in holistic healing.
S. SRINIVASAN (CHINU)
has postgraduate degree in nuclear physics, and in
management. He has worked as a resource person and
resource linker on projects related to health care,
organisation and community development, drug production,
environmental concerns, alternative technology and
economic development. In recent years, he has been
looking into public advocacy issues in India. His other
basic interests have been in areas related to healing
processes, personal growth and traditional health
systems. He is also involved with promotion of low cost
books and toys for disadvantaged children. He has been
editor and contributor to several publications including
the VHAI bimonthly, `Health for the Millions’, a
book on `Management Process in Health Care’ and on
other development issues.
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