ASAHP Fellows
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Lee Holder, PhD, FASAHP |
Lee Holder was elected to the presidency in 1979 and served 1979-80. He had served in many capacities in ASAHP: Council of Educational Institutions (Chairman, 1975-76), Board of Directors (1975-81), President-Elect (1978-79), President (1979-80), and was a member of several committees, including: Advisory Committee for Regional Institutes (1973-74), Finance Commitee, chairman (1978-79), Awards Committee (1979-80), Grants and Contract Review Committee, chairman (1980-81), Committee of Presidents, chairman (1980-81), Switzer Memorial Committee (1979-81), Task Force on International Allied Health and Development (1981), and Historian (1995-96).
In Alpha Eta, the Allied Health honor society, he organized chapters at University of Tennessee (Memphis) and University of Oklahoma and served as national president in 1979, 1992-93, a member of the Board of Directors 1975-79, 1981-83, 1985-88 and Secretary/Treasurer 1995-2009.
As a member of the Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, he organized the chapter at University of Oklahoma in 1990 and was the chapyer's first president.
In addition to being Dean of Allied Health at University of Oklahoma 1982-94 and founding dean at University of Tennessee (Memphis) 1972-82, he was in volved in a number of international activities. He was chairman of the Task Force on the First World Congress on Allied Health 1986-88 and was a member of the Task Force on the Second World Congress 19995-97. In 1969, he was a U.S. Delegate to the World Health Organization Conference on Behavioral Sciences in Health Sciences Education, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1984-86 he coordinated the health affairs portion of the Jordan's Fourth Education Technical Assistance Project in coordination with the Kingdom of Jordon Ministry of Health and Oklahoma State University. In 1983-85, he was coordinator (for consultation) with the College of Allied Medical Sciences at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. In addition, as a member of Partners of America, he was involved in work in Caracas, Venezuela (as a member of Tennessee Partners) and eight states in Mexico (as a member of Oklahoma partners).
He says that his involvement in ASAHP was central to many activities in allied health and public health and he savors the memory of them.