James E. Leone, PhD, CHES is assistant professor of Health Education in the Department of Movement Arts, Health Promotion and Leisure Studies, College of Education and Allied Studies, Bridgewater State University.?? He is an adjunct lecturer at Northeastern University in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts.

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