Who influenced me over the years? Below are lists of those influenced me from close and personally and those who influenced me through their work. Buddies and folks who took the time to teach me how to see and learn. Most of these folks were close and supportive friends; some aggravated the hell out of me; some did both …

• Vivian Brown, CEO, PROTOTYPES of Los Angeles
• Claire Fagin, Former President and Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
• Jerry Singer, Psychology Professor, Yale
• Mathy Mezey, Nursing Professor, New York University
• Bill Lawlor, Psychology Professor, Fordham
• Frank Stallone, Research Psychologist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Ron Fieve, Psychiatry Professor and Clinical Trials on Lithium Chief, New York State Psychiatric Institute
• Bernie Segal, Psychology Professor, University of Alaska
• Pete Bentler, Psychology Professor, UCLA
• Geoff Maruyama, Education Professor and Vice Provost, University of Minnesota
• Abigail Panter, University of North Carolina
• Doug Jackson, Psychology Professor, University of Western Ontario
• Michael Browne, Psychology and Statistics Professor, Ohio State University
• Joe Prevratil, CEO, Archstone Foundation, Long Beach
• Jeff Tanaka, Psychology Professor, New York University
• Bob Abelson, Psychology Professor, Yale
• Trudy Larson, Dean and Infectious Disease Professor, University of Nevada School of Medicine
• Don Quinlan, Psychology Professor, Yale
• Lisa Harlow, Psychology Professor, University of Rhode Island
• Pat Archbold, Nursing Professor, Oregon State Healthcare University
• Doug Anglin, Research Psychologist, UCLA
• Lisa Melchior, President, The Measurement Group

 Influencers from afar through their publications and other work, conversations, emails, or Internet interactions. I don’t agree with everything most of them said, I agree with nothing a few said, and all pushed me to think by their own hard work …

• Stan Mulaik, Psychology Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
• John Tukey, Statistics Professor, Princeton
• Roy Grubb, IT Consultant, Hong Kong
• Susan Whitbourne, Psychology Professor, University of Massachusetts
• Lyle Jones, Psychology Professor and Provost, UNC
• Barbara Aranda Naranjo, Administrator of HIV/AIDS Programs, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville
• Tony Buzan, Originator of Modern Mind Mapping and Management Consultant, London
• Karl Joreskog, Statistics Professor, Upsalla
• Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of European Forces WWII and US President
• Elizabeth Woods, Professor of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Boston & Harvard
• Ira Manson, President, Western Psychological Services
• Gloria Weissman, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville
• Paul Krugman, Economics Professor and Nobel Prize Winner and NY Times Columnist, Princeton

Within categories, the names above are in random order.