Ted Ficken:  

After Taft, I went to Pepperdine University, University of the Pacific, and finished 2 degrees in music therapy at the University of Kansas. I have worked in California, Kansas, Oregon, Minnesota, and Arizona at psychiatric hospitals and chemical dependency treatment centers. From 1990 to 2015, I worked at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, first as Director of Rehabilitation Services, and later as Director of Standards and Compliance. I have taught at Oregon State University (Strategic Planning in Healthcare) Marylhurst University (Psychology of Music), and at George Washington University (online course: Quality Improvement in Healthcare). In 2003, I completed my Ph.D. in Public Health at Oregon State University. I have been married for 48 years to Mary Candida Blackburn Ficken ("Candi"), who I met in Kansas. We have a daughter, Sara, who is married and living in Virginia. Sara and her husband have three children. Sara's husband works at DARPA. She is a nurse, working in outpatient surgery. Our son, Jef...Expand for more