Percival\'s Place: Healthy Healing with Sharon McDermott

We talk with Sharon about Traditional Oriental Medicine, a Comprehensive Medical System that includes acupuncture, acupressure, herbal therapy, massage, cupping, gua sha, moxabustion, nutrition and exercise.

Percival\'s Place: Dr. Jonathon Jefferson

Why do bullies become bullies? That\'s among the topics we will discuss with educator and author Dr. Jonathon Jefferson in this wide-ranging conversation.

Sharon McDermott

Sharon McDermott received her Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City.

She is board certified in acupuncture and herbology and licensed to practice acupuncture in New York State. She is currently a teaching assistant and tutor at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.

Sharon has experience in urban clinics as well as hospital settings such as the Hospital for Joint Disease, Grand Meridian Clinic and Pacific College Acupuncture Center. Sharon is a former President of the New York Chapter of Pacific College Alumni Association.

Sharon McDermott is a Birth Doula, certified by DONA International. A doula provides emotional and physical comfort to the Mom and her partner during the labor and delivery process.

Healthy Healing

Dr. Jonathon Jefferson

Born in 1969 as the seventh of eight children to two Harlem raised parents, I benefited from both the inner-city life of Queens, New York, and childhood summers spent on a farm in rural upstate New York. Academic, professional, and physical accomplishments have punctuated my life. After earning my doctorate from Seton Hall University in 2006 in the area of education leadership, management, and policy, creative pursuits such as self publishing memoirs, poetry, and photography have taken the edge off of an otherwise mundane existence as a public school administrator.

An adventurer by nature, I became the first African American to hike to the top of every mountain in the northeast United States over 4,000\' (115 of them) by September of 2000. At that time, less than 400 people had accomplished this feat; whereas thousands have scaled Mount Everest. Escaping to the U.S. Virgin Islands to manage a friend\'s Eco-lodge in 2009 provided me with the respite necessary to begin serious writing and research on the topics of life and education.

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