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Peter M. Litchfield Ph.D.

Faculty chairperson

Dr. Litchfield has served as a consultant, professor, researcher, lecturer, and entrepreneur in the fields of healthcare and human performance for more than 40 years, including the design, planning, development, production, management, and delivery of academic and professional education curriculum in psychology, behavioral medicine, and health education: workshops, seminars, short-courses, certification programs, competency programs, specialty programs, MS degree programs, and Ph.D. degree programs.

He is currently President (2000-present) of Better Physiology Ltd., a Colorado corporation that manufactures educational capnography instrumentation for identifying dysfunctional breathing habits and learning new ones. He is also co-founder and a Director of Behavioral Physiology Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which provides (1) respiratory physiology and breathing psychology programs for professionals, and (2) Internet-based consultation services for professionals around the world.

He has lectured extensively since 1970 throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia to diverse audiences, ranging from medical schools to corporate groups, on a wide range of subjects including behavioral medicine, behavioral physiology, self-regulation science, biofeedback, professional education, and business planning. Coincident with his entrepreneurial enterprise in education, he has for 25 years been involved in the design and development of self-regulation physiological monitoring instrumentation systems for use by healthcare practitioners, human service professionals, educators, and researchers.

Dr. Litchfield earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Portland (1971), his M.A. degree in psychology from San Diego State University (1969), and his B.A. degree in psychology from the University of Michigan (1963). His specialty areas lie within the fields of behavioral medicine, behavioral physiology, behavioral health, applied psychophysiology, behavioral pharmacology, and research design. Specific areas of expertise include placebo effects, conditioning theory, drug addiction, biofeedback, and respiratory behavioral physiology. Other areas of expertise include business planning/development for healthcare professionals, and software design/development of educational, clinical, and research protocols for physiological monitoring and recording.

Dr. Litchfield is a behavioral physiologist, currently specializing in respiratory physiology and psychology. He and Sandra Reamer together developed CapnoLearning®, a learning program for helping people to restore good respiratory fitness through the application of the principles of behavioral analysis, behavior modification, cognitive learning, biofeedback, awareness training, and phenomenological exploration to breathing behavior.

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