Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Doswell grew up like many other children living in inner city America. He learned early valuable life lessons of being independent, the rewards of discipline, the value of friendship and family, and the love for God. He was raised as the only child by Brenda Tucker Doswell, an educator, songtress, and entrepreneur, and Ronald Jayfus Doswell, a social worker, historian, and entrepreneur.

Dr. Doswell’s was exposed early to the contributions of his “History Heroes” of antiquity such as Nzinga, “Hannibal the Great”, Imhotep, and Shaka Zulu that illustrated journeys requiring perseverance, strategy, intellect, fortitude, grace, and humility. These historical figures helped to shape Dr. Doswell’s character and his unyielding determination to achieve and benefit lives.

He was also exposed to and excelled in piano and violin performance, martial arts, music composition, sports, choreography, visual arts, computer programming, languages, and science. However, he lacked the mathematic and technical mentorship to pursue his dream of becoming a neuro-surgeon or robotics engineer and consequently did not develop an early science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) foundation.

One who does not like having limitations, he journeyed and achieved a Ph.D. in Information Technology to transform his weak foundation in STEM to now one of his greatest strengths. Dr. Doswell decided early to dedicate his life to serve as a symbol for those underserved and disadvantaged individuals who experience similar STEM related limitations. Consequently, Dr. Doswell achieved degrees in computer science and cognitive neuro-pscyhology at Oberlin College, Systems and Computer Science from Howard University, and a PhD in Information Technology from George Mason University, while at the same time, maintaining his skills in martial arts and music.

Dr. Doswell will state that what propelled him the most to succeed were “The examples of greatness that proceeded him from which the bar of excellence he must raise”. His historic motivation is also deeply rooted into his DNA. Dr. Doswell is a descendent of a long African American Virginia history. His mother, is a direct descendent from the first African American child born in America, William Tucker from Jamestown, Virginia (1624). His father’s decedents were African American land owners and entrepreneurs, which we can still see historical remnants from Doswell, Virginia today.

His biggest joy is contributing his knowledge to inspire, motivate, and grow the next generation of multidisciplinary leaders in academics, the workplace, and in entrepreneurship.

Staying the Course
As a result of perseverance, vision, and faith, Dr. Doswell is now the founder, president, and CEO of Juxtopia, LLC, www.juxtopia.com a privately held biomedical and information technology (BIO-IT) company and an innovative leader in human performance monitoring products and services. He is also founder and board chairperson of the Juxtopia Group, Inc., a 501 c (3), www.juxtopia.org a non- profit organization that develops and evaluates learning technology tools for improving the STEM proficiency of underserved and disadvantaged populations.

Dr. Doswell, consulted with, and held leadership positions at several different companies and organizations, and federal agencies including Maryland Medical Systems, CompuServe, Lockheed Martin, BearingPoint, Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), TRW, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics, among others companies. Dr. Doswell has spent over 13 years with a multidisciplinary concentration in advanced learning technologies and health informatics and health information technology research.

Research Contributions
Dr. Doswell’s research focuses on advancing learning technology to improve human the learning performance and health technology to prevent human illness, injury, and disease.

• In learning technology research, Dr. Doswell is founder and co-director of the virtual instructor pilot research group (VIPRG), an international committee that advances research in building computer systems that autonomously instruct human beings. He is also well published in applying advanced learning technologies such as video games, robotics, and online learning environments for accelerating learning and improving the learning proficiency focused on the underserved and disadvantaged.

• In health technology research, Dr. Doswell has lead research efforts on fetal surveillance, telemedicine/telehealth, nanobiotechnology, and nanotechnology ethics. Dr. Doswell co-organized the American Public Health Association’s first Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT) group and co-organized the first business meeting at APHA that discussed Nanotechnology for public health. Dr. Doswell also initiated and is leading an effort to engage minority serving institutions for health and learning technology research, which was endorsed by several members of the United States congress.

Dr. Doswell has presented his research to academic and non-academic conferences including, but not limited to the International Conference on Computer Information Technologies in Education; International Conference on Computer Graphics Imaging and Visualization; International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies; IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies; Society of Applied Learning Technologies; International Digital Media Conference; International Museum and Web Conference; International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education; National Medical Association Annual conference; American Public Health Association annual conference; and the American Telemedicine Association Annual conference.

Social Entrepreneur and Inventor
Dr. Doswell has successfully won and executed grants such as the recent grant from the National Science Foundation with Georgetown University to create a novel Augmented Reality Intelligent Instruction System for use by manufacturers, medical professionals, US military warfighters, K-12 students, and to support homeland security responders. Dr. Doswell has patent pending inventions and continues to invent, raise capital, and grow his business into a lucrative multi-national conglomerate. Dr. Doswell continues to shares his business success, mistakes, and challenges in his highly acclaimed “Lessons From the Field” seminars.

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