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Dr. Ferguson is a senior associate at Boston's Center for Clinical Computing, a medical computing think-tank associated with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital. He is president of Self-Care Productions, an Austin-based health care consulting firm. He is editor and publisher of the industry newsletter The Ferguson Report: The Newsletter of Consumer Health Informatics and Online Health, which will debut in January, 1998.
Tom received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. He founded the influential journal Medical Self-Care and served as its editor and chief from 1975 to 1989. He is the founder of the SelfCare Catalog, a direct-mail company specializing in tools which help people take care of their health. He has served for many years as medical editor of The Whole Earth Catalog. He wrote a chapter on the empowered medical consumer for the book that accompanied the Bill Moyers series on Mind/Body Medicine. He is the author of a dozen books. His latest, Health Online: How to Find Health Information, Support Groups and Self-Help Communities in Cyberspace, was recently published by Addison-Wesley Publishing.
Tom organized the world's first conferences on Consumer Health Informatics, a new field devoted to the development and study of consumer-oriented computer resources in health care. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Public Health Service, AT&T, the Canadian Bell System, Kaiser-Permanente Health Plan, Tenet Health Care, and many other corporations and government agencies. He is a Trustee of the National Wellness Institute.
Tom is a popular speaker and workshop leader and has been interviewed by All Things Considered, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Cable News Network, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and many other print and electronic media. His hobbies include squirrel-watching, collecting old poker chips, and writing medical mystery novels. He lives in Austin with his wife, Meredith, their two unpredictable cats, and a squirrel named Einstein.
Three articles written by Dr. Ferguson are available free on this web site:
- Guilt-Free Guide to a Smoke-Free Life
- The 10 Stages of Quitting Smoking
- Avoiding Weight Gain When You Quit Smoking
Two of Dr. Ferguson's works are available for purchase on this web site:
The No-Nag, No-Guilt, Do-It-Your-Own-Way Guide to Quitting Smoking is an excellent book to help you quit.
How to Quit Smoking for Life is a comprehensive audio and videotape program to help you understand smoking and give it up for life.