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Keynotes & Workshops by Stephen Dolle: Neuroscientist and Drum Circle Facilitator

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   Stephen Dolle, founder of Dolle Communications, provides keynote speaking & workshops on group drumming, health & wellness, hydrocephalus, and AI applications in tech/mobile smart phones. Often referred to as "MacGyver," Stephen has had a distinguished career in health care, local business, entertainment, and the neurosciences. In recent years, he achieved the distinction of "neuroscientist" after numerous efforts he undertook relating to hydrocephalus and a 1992 brain injury. In fact, he directed his last several brain surgeries, including, his surgery in 2008 that resulted in the MRI image below. Because of this, Stephen is committed to furthering advances in the care and treatment of neurological disorders, sensory integration disorder, and health and wellness. Stephen supports a new bill before Congress, HR 1084 (Anna Eshoo, D, CA), that if passed, this 2008 House bill would end the practice of raising your TV's volume during television commercials, known to trigger neurological sequela and behavioral problems in persons with neurological and sensory integration disorders. Stephen undertook and published a very telling and related 2002 study on sound and sensory integration, that incorporated a "metronome" to evaluate the brain's response to various types of audio rhythmic patterns.

    Today, Stephen gives audiences a glimpse of his extraordinary survival skills that he accrued after the accident that allowed him to author papers in artificial intelligence, the neurosciences, CNS shunt devices, disease management, FDA public policy, law, and music and the brain. He shares his insights in artificial intelligence (AI) and assistive technologies and his vision for every American to be able to use a smart phone. AI applications include organizational planners, photo and audio apps, decision and planning trees, and reminders/alarms, and mobile health health applications like his DiaCeph Test. Stephen has a knack of making complex technologies and gadgets easy to understand.

    But technology and solving complex problems isn't Stephen's only skill. Prior to his brain injury in 1992, he had also been an actor and sports & entertainment promoter. In the years since his injury, he wrote and recorded the healing music song, "Evening Solstice," and appeared on stage and live on radio on the Mark and Brian Radio Show with his son Nicholas for KLOS Christmas Show's the "Dropping of the Ule Log." Stephen hopes to re-record "Evening Solstice" in 2010 with saxophone and lead guitar.

    Stephen's journey and the extraordinary story of the invention of his DiaCeph Test, the device he conceived in 1997 in order to undergo corrective brain surgery, is to be chronicled in an up and coming memoir, the "DiaCeph Story." Stephen is in the works to write and deliver keynotes under the name, "Professor Mac" and has secured the domain www.ProfessorMac.net

The Professor Mac Brand: Drums, Tech Gadgets, Survival Methods, Stuff for your Brain, and Aging in Reverse

   Stephen has been writing under the name "Professor Mac" over the past year and recently purchased the domain www.ProfessorMac.net, which he will use as his brand and name when delivering keynote addresses. He is qualified to speak on group drumming, hydrocephalus and neurological care, mobile smart phones and AI, and matters of family and personal survival.

    Magically, it was February of 2009 when he officially heard the words from his current neurosurgeon that has been wanting to hear for the past 16 years, "You do NOT have NPH." Yes, surgery no. 7 as it is called in the records, was a big success! Stephen's been given a new lease on life.

    In fact, Stephen or "Professor Mac," is aging in reverse - based on his "new brain" and on broader changes he has made to his health over the last year, in particular, a calorie restriction diet and new exercise plan. "It's all about discipline," he shares.

    Today, his memory and mental faculties are gradually returning, and even evolving. These are uncharted waters in the field of neuroscience after a 16 year period of his brain being under pressure. He has a remarkable 32 inch waist again like when he was 24 years old. His gastro-intestinal complaints of the last 12 years, much exacerbated in the last couple years, mysteriously have almost all gone away - and without medication. A 1996 wrist injury that had limited his physical activities and sports since that time, has suddenly improved. The days of having to ice his hands after every time he played drums are over. He plays, works out with weights again, not much possible since 1992. And his agility and coordination are more quick and sure. With a " new brain" and disciple from drumming, he moves like a 25-year old. On the basketball court, he brandishes a hook shot that may be good enough to catch the attention of the Los Angeles Lakers. He's like a young kid again, but hardened from the inner city of Wall Street/U.S. medical industry. He plays drum rhythms that affect even the weather, animals, and people in the most unusual ways. At 54, he is a new man. He is a bit of a "blank slate," waiting to be filled again, coming into his own. He may be on his way to becoming the most important man in America.

Group Drumming: Team Building & Communications, Engaging the Rhythms of your Brain (Keynote Slide Show)

    The above link is to a marketing Power Point Slide Show on "Team Building & Communications thru Group Drumming: Engaging the Rhythms of your Brain."  The Slide Show may take up to 10 or more seconds to load. If it does not automatically play, select in far Left top corner, "From the Beginning," and the presentation will play. To view options during playback, right-click your mouse and make your selection.

    As a drum circle facilitator and neuroscientist, Stephen delves into the various rhythms of the brain and how they interact with language, movement, and cognition. This Group Drumming 4x 6 card identifies how in my workshops rhythmic patterns and percussion instruments are used to help everyday walking and movement.

    In his drum circle workshops, Stephen employs drum and rhythm instruments to boost team building, non-verbal communication skills, mental focus, readiness, physical coordination, and mobility. The following Modern Applications of Drums and Rhythm flier illustrates how widely used drums and rhythm are today.

Introduction:

Stephen Dolle is CEO of Dolle Communications, a communications and neurosciences consulting company based in Newport Beach, California.

Stephen is a master problem solver who pioneered a new diagnostic method for shunt assessment after a 1992 brain injury, used it to direct his last 3 shunt surgeries, litigated two big products liability cases, authored guidance for the FDA, and has pioneered a number of new apps in drumming.

Stephen is a self-taught neuroscientist and spent much of the last 15 years in neurological devices and related neurosciences, AI assistive applications, public policy & law, and was CEO and founder of DiaCeph, Inc., a start-up company based on neuro-monitoring technology he patented.

Stephen was earlier founder and CEO of Certified Nuclear Imaging from 1982 to 1992, and in a nuclear medicine imaging career spanning 15 years, he worked up over 15,000 patients at 50 different facilities.

Stephen served as an independent fundraiser for sports and entertainment in the early 1990s. In 1992, he just missed an opportunity to help launch the Planet Hollywood Restaurant chain in California.

He earlier appeared in stage productions and film productions.

He devoted 12 years of his life to coaching youth soccer and baseball, and oversaw his son’s pitching development and later recruitment by Pepperdine University Baseball.  

He could become the most talked about man in America. He is "Aging in Reverse."

Known as “MacGyver” for his problem solving prowess, “The Professor” for his drum rhythms, and “Coach” for his years in youth baseball and soccer, he is a drum circle facilitator and percussionist and performs at a wide variety of venues in the Greater Los Angeles area. Let us give a warm welcome to Stephen Dolle.

Keynote & Workshop Programs

	Team Building and Communications thru Group Drumming: "Engaging the Rhythms of your Brain"
	Drumming for your Health
	The DiaCeph Story: Innovation and Perseverance in the Neurosciences
	Overcoming Hydrocephalus
	Mobile Smart Phones as Assistive Technology

Suggested Public Speaking Venues

	Industry Events
	Corporate Conventions
	Company Gatherings & Meetings
	Fundraising Events
	Community Events
	Schools and Universities
	Health Fairs
	Disease Organization Meetings

Contact Stephen during normal business hours at (949) 642-4592, or through mail here, or via his home office.