SYMMETRYLEARNINGSYSTEMS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Head of Development
Dr. Betit is a pioneering educator who served as a staff founder of Landmark College, the first accredited college for students with diagnosed learning differences (he calls them "Distinctive Thinkers"). Here, he built a research and training institute serving a national and international clientele, focused on Distinctive Thinkers. At Landmark College, he served in senior leadership roles for virtually every division, including holding the portfolios of CFO, Executive VP, VP of Development, Dean of Admissions, and Provost. His efforts during this era were characterized by entrepreneurial innovations, incorporating contemporary findings in neuroscience and pedagogy to enhance a structured, multi-sensory learning environment, supporting the needs of Distinctive Thinkers to unlock their abiding potential.
Dr. McCrone spent her career as an Infectious Disease physician, initially at Boston University Hospital, then at Steward Morton Hospital prior to devoting full time to developing the SymmetryScience TM curricula. She graduated from Elizabethtown College with a BS in Medical Technology. She worked as a hospital microbiologist for several years, receiving a Master's Degree in Clinical Microbiology from Jefferson University School of Graduate Studies prior to attending Jefferson Medical College, earning an MD degree. She completed an Internal Medicine Residence at Boston City Hospital, followed by an Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Combined Brigham & Women's and Beth Israel Hospitals in Boston, MA. She is dual board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease and was certified as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine. In 2017, she received the O. F. Stambaugh Chemistry Alumni Award from Elizabethtown College.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Human Neurobiology
After a 20-year career in the United States Navy, Dr. Thomas became a Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Human Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine, where he is actively involved in cognitive and neurophysiological studies of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Thomas's career has been interdisciplinary with special focus on the intersection of social science with neuroscience.
Dr. Moss is a Cognitive and Systems Neuroscientist, Neuroanatomist, and Licensed Clinical Neuropsychologist with a background in Special and Public School education. His educational experience has included teaching children with special needs (ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism, and other developmental and intellectual disabilities) and teaching science, math, and biology to middle and high school students in a public-school setting. He is Waterhouse Chair and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology (and Neurology) at Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Bergethon is the founder of SymmetryLearningSystems and the founder and chief scientist of Invariant Research, Limited. The first 30 years of his career was spent in academic medicine as a physician-scientist. He was a Professor at Boston University and Tufts University in the Departments of Biochemistry, Neurology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, and Biomedical Engineering where he taught in the graduate and medical schools, was an Attending Physician in Neurology, and ran the Laboratory for Neurophysics and Intelligence Modeling at Boston University School of Medicine.
Victoria is an educator, a pianist, composer, and conductor. After receiving a BA and MFA in music composition from Tulane University, Ms. Dolceamore trained at USC where she studied film composition with masters' Jerry Goldsmith, Bruce Broughton and Buddy Baker. Since graduating from the Scoring for Motion Picture and Television Advanced Study Program, she has gone on to create original scores for national commercials, independent films and features for studios such as Columbia Tristar, Fox Family Channel and Lifetime. Victoria completed her doctorate degree in Education from Drexel University and continues her research focused on the importance and positive impact of performing arts and music education in schools K-12. She currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching music composition, music history, and music appreciation in the music department of the College of Performing Arts at Rowan University.