Klarinet Archive - Posting 000556.txt from 1997/06

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: Amateur & Bio
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:37:09 -0400

I like seeing the bios that are coming across (thanks for
sharing those, everyone) although I hadn't been planning on
submitting mine until the recent thread about "amateur" and what that
means/implies (my opinion of which has been nicely summed up in
posts by J. Morgan and Steve Randall)

I am a respiratory neurophysiologist (translation: I study how the
brain controls our breathing, which has been useful for those
klarinet discussions I've taken part in) and earned my Ph.D. from
Ohio State University. Currently, I am an assistant professor of
physiology at a medical school in Kansas City. I've played clarinet
since fourth grade and am once again taking lessons (one
disadvantage of the grad. school/post-doc. life - you're never in one
place long enough to do things like that :-)) and play in a community
band. The band does 12 - 20 concerts a year, as well as providing
the pit "orchestra" for two Theater in the Park musicals. My
musician friends tell me they can't imagine me as a scientist, my
scientist friends tell me that can't picture me as a musician -
not many of my friends on either "side" believe me when I tell them
that the two really aren't all that different...
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
2105 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64124
email: dikarius@-----.EDU

   
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