Stephen A. Fine's Page

Profile Information

Profession: Other Health Professional

Title: President

Organization: Melanoma Education Foundation

Educational Experience (College, Graduate Training, Residency, Fellowship): Postdoctoral Research

Publications: See blog.melanomaeducation.net

Honors and Awards: AAD Gold Triangle Awards, Boston Celtics Heroes Among Us Award, New England Patriots Myra Craft MVP Award, Mass. General Hosptal The 100 Awardee

Research, Professional, and Clinical Interests: Melanoma early detection and prevention

Interested in: Networking, News alerts

Hobbies and Interests: Running, Power napping

More About Me: Steve Fine, president of the Melanoma Education Foundation, attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University. After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.

In 1989 he started a consulting practice in the technology of high purity chemical manufacturing, concurrently serving for 3 years as Vice President of Technology for ACSI, a West Coast manufacturer of semiconductor chemicals.

Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded the non-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since August of 2001, has devoted full time to the Foundation.

The primary mission of the Foundation is to educate high school and middle school wellness teachers about skin cancer and provide them with free online lessons to educate their students in a single class session.

At last count the lessons were being utilized in over 1700 schools in all 50 states.

Website: http://www.skincheck.org

Stephen A. Fine's Blog

All Skin Cancer Lessons are not Created Equal

I founded the nonprofit Melanoma Education Foundation (MEF) in 1999, one year after my 26-year old son Daniel tragically passed away from the disease. From day one we studied the most beneficial ways to get teens to absorb critical information about melanoma. To that end, we created melanoma lessons for high school and middle school teachers to present to their students.

The attention span of teens has never been shorter, and few have the patience to listen intently to a…

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