Dr. Ronald L. Linder
Born Ronald Leonard Linder on February 26, 1940, in
Tacoma, Washington. Deceased on June 19, 2017, in Los Angeles,
California of natural causes.
Kate
Linder, his wife of 41 years, has starred on "The Young and the
Restless" for over 35 years, sadly announces his passing on June 19,
2017. He was 77 years old and died peacefully.
Linder was raised by his father George Linder, a home builder
and cabinet maker, and his mother Dorothy. Linder was teaching at San
Francisco State University, when he met Kate just after she graduated
from the university with a Theatre Arts degree. Between stage
productions, his future wife was working at the University’s activities
office where they met, fell in love and the two were married on
Valentine's Day in 1976. Linder was a proud husband who cheered on his
wife when she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and remained
supportive of her career and her biggest champion during their long
marriage. Many who knew the couple were unaware of his impressive
background and history as an educator, author, innovator and expert on
many matters of public health and drug abuse treatment and training
techniques.
As an honors student, Ronald L. Linder graduated with a BA and
MS degrees in health education from the University of Washington, an EdD
in health education from the University of Oregon, and a National
Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in research at Stanford
University. He started his teaching career at Alaska Methodist
University at 23.
He was a fellow of the American School Health Association at 26.
After chairing the Teaching Credential and Graduate Programs in health
education at San Francisco State University for four years, he joined
Dr. Joy Cauffman on the SEARCH: A Link to Services project at USC School
of Medicine in 1974. He later coordinated the National Science
Foundation's Biomedical Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project for four
years, prior to his administrative and faculty positions in public
health, medicine, and education at UCLA in 1978. His background in
psychoactive drug abuse research led to coauthoring the first book on
PCP abuse: PCP: The Devil's Dust -- Recognition, Management, and
Prevention of the Phencyclidine Abuse, which was published in 1981. He
has written articles in professional journals, monographs, and was
awarded a million-dollar grant to train twelve thousand human service
providers on PCP abuse throughout the State of California. He served as
expert witness on many homicide and DUI cases related to PCP abuse
during the past several decades.
After several years teaching administrative postgraduate
medical education, consulting, and acting as the principal investigator
on several UCLA training grants, he became director of education at the
Hospital Satellite Network and subsequently was president of American
Medical Productions, winner of several Telly Awards for medical
television. Dr. Linder became the Regional Liaison Officer, Veterans
Health Administrator Western Region for the Ambulatory Care and
Education Initiative for five years. He created the Ambulatory Care
Consultation and Education Support Services (ACCESS) program used to
evaluate and transition selected inpatient to outpatient care.
In 1999, he coauthored Home Health Telecommunications. A few
years later, he established two substance abuse treatment programs for
the underserved in Los Angeles. In 2013, Linder and his former SEARCH
partner Cauffman coauthored another book, A Forty-Year Retrospective of
President Nixon's Committee on Health Education A Whistleblower's Diary.
Dr. Linder received numerous awards and recognition for this work,
including a "Medical Aspects of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Ware"
symposium in 1981, which contributed to the International Physicians for
the Prevention of Nuclear War receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace in
1985.
Linder is survived his wife Kate, his mother Dorothy, his
children from his first marriage Jay, Jon and Karyn, his nine
grandchildren, his sister Janis Pupo and her husband Frank, his brother
David and his wife Marilyn, his brother Gene, his sister Jorjann
Buzzell, his mother-in-law, Molly Wolveck, his brother-in-law Randy
Wolveck and his wife Gina.
Donations can be made to the Ronald Linder Memorial Fund at the ALS Association Golden West Chapter.
