Mary Jo earned a doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati after completing her undergraduate work at KentStateUniversity. She has a 30-year background in all facets of education with a focus in health science, physiology of exercise, sports training, and physical education. Mary Jo is a retired assistant professor of 25 years from Ohio State University where she also coached national and Olympic athletes in synchronized swimming. She was a two-time Olympic coach in 1988 and 1992.

Mary Jo is the founder and director of Columbus Polarity, Center for Integrative Health and Wellness and theInstituteofHolistic Health Careers^TM, which trains and educates students as Energy Medicine Practitioners, Polarity Practitioners and Holistic Health Practitioners.

She teaches complementary and holistic healthcare therapy and integrative health and conducts wellness seminars at several medical schools. She has been teaching CAM modules for the medical humanities department at The Ohio State University Medical School to first-year medical students for twenty years. She also supervises fourth-year medical students for rotations in CAM studies. Mary Jo has taught and established classes at Hocking Technical College, University of Utah, Bellevue Hospital, Blue Sky Educational Centerin Milwaukee, Wisconsinand internationally in Austria,Germany and Greece.

She has maintained a private Polarity and Health and Wellness practice for 15 years and is frequently invited to speak about Holistic Health, Complementary and Alternative Health Care, and Energy Therapies at the local and international level.

As a special interest, Mary Jo has practiced Kundalini Yoga and studied Ayurvedic Health Care for over 30 years. Other interests include educational concerns for preventive healthcare and promoting awareness of the benefits of Complementary, Holistic and Integrative Healthcare systems.