Ron Domen is currently a Professor of Pathology, Medicine, and Humanities at the Penn State University College of Medicine/Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. From 2005-2013 he was the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at Penn State. He was an elected member of the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine for ten years. He is a nationally recognized expert in transfusion medicine and has also been active on the national level in addressing medical education and ethical issues in pathology, transfusion medicine, and transplantation, and has also published in these areas. He was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (poetry) and has been writing poetry for many years and has numerous poems published in anthologies and small press magazines including: Whiskey Island Magazine, Yarrow, Slipstream, Riverwind, Earth First!, Slant, Grasslands Review, Green Fuse, and others. He also served as the poetry editor for The International Journal of Healthcare & Humanities. Dr. Domen was born in rural Dennison, Ohio, in Tuscarawas County, and grew up in industrial Warren, Ohio. Before graduating from Youngstown State University he worked as a gas station attendant and auto-mechanic, a laborer in a steel mill, a veterinary assistant, and a hospital orderly. For various logical and illogical reasons he decided to pursue his medical studies in Guadalajara, Mexico where he graduated from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara with the MD degree in 1975. He lives in Hershey, PA with his wife, Kate, and their two dogs: Darby, a Westie, and Bailey, a rescued Schnorkie.
