ABOUT DEBORAH QUILTER

Deborah Quilter is a New York City-based writer, consultant, fitness professional and author of The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book (Walker, New York 1998) and coauthor of Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide (with Emil Pascarelli, M.D., John Wiley & Sons, New York 1994). The latter book has received hundreds of reviews and mentions in the national press. Amazon.com calls it the "bible" of RSI; Jane Brody, health columnist for the New York Times, called the book "a comprehensive guide dealing with many repetitive stress injuries." Readers call the book "the best and most complete guide on this subject." The Computer User's Guide is available in a Chinese language translation; the Recovery Book in a Dutch translation.

Ms. Quilter has lectured about repetitive strain injury at the New York Times, Time Inc. (including People and Life magazine staff), and various business, medical and lay groups around the country and abroad. Ms. Quilter trains clients in her special exercise techniques, conducts workshops on relaxation and coping skills for people with RSI, and performs workstation evaluations and technique retraining for private and corporate clients. She also wrote a monthly column on ergonomics for Computer Currents, and has been interviewed on NBC News, Fox News, New York 1, and national and international newspapers, magazines and radio shows. She was the keynote speaker for two conferences on RSI in the Netherlands in November 2000. She founded a program to teach yoga to senior citizens at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City which was featured on Martha (the Martha Stewart show) and was endowed with a grant by Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association.

In addition to her books on repetitive strain injury, she is founding editor of Pilates Style magazine, was a contributing editor of Dance Spirit and Stage Directions magazines, and contributing writer for Total Health for Women (Rodale Press, 1995). Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, The Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Daily News, The San Francisco Chronicle, Woman, Fitness, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, VDT News, Computer Game Review and many other national and regional publications.

Ms. Quilter studied Ergonomic Guidelines for Computer Use at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the the Biomechanics of Human Movement at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a certified fitness instructor and personal trainer, (American Council on Exercise and Marymount Manhattan College). Ms. Quilter studies Evolutionary Yoga™ with Kevin Kortan; completed her Yoga teacher training through Spanda®:The Yoga of Movement with Jaime Stover Schmitt, Ed.D.; was certified in Therapeutic Yoga by Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal; and is currently enrolled in the Mind in Motion professional Feldenkrais Method® training with Larry Goldfarb, Ph.D. She is listed in the current editions of Who's Who in American Women and Contemporary Authors and is a member of the Authors Guild.