The Love Doctor Carl Pontiak Live chat with Renowned Jamaican Author/Educator Olive Peart

Olive Peart is an author, an educator, radiographer and publisher.  Her technical query columns appear regularly in Radiologic Technology a journal of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists and she is the radiologic technology editor with OnCourse Learning. Olive also gives  mammography lectures at seminars across the US and Canada, Olive is the author of three young adult novel Starlight Kids, Linked and The Intruders. Her other published books are: Life After High School: Traits that Help & Traits that Hurt, The Dangers of Medical Radiation; Spanish for Professionals in Radiology;Lange Q & A Mammography Examination; Mammography and Breast Imaging Prep; Program Review and Exam Prep, and Mammography and Breast Imaging-Just the Facts.

Olive was the keynote speaker at Let's Get Ready, Summer Career Day Kick-Off on July 30th 2011. The mission of Let's Get Ready is to expand college access for motivated, low-income high school students. She was honored at the Juneteenth Celebration of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Westchester and Rockland Counties (NY). At its annual award dinner June 17, 2010, Olive was recognized as one of the Chamber's "10 Influential Blacks" in Westchester & Rockland Counties, for her work as an author and publisher. She founded two publishing companies: Demarche Publishing LLC, which publishes a variety of works; and DLite Press offering complete self-publishing and ebook services.

In 2014 and again in 2015 Ms. Peart was selected to be a Technologist Fellow by the RAD-AID/ASRT Foundation. RAD-AID is an international organization dedicated to increasing radiology services in developing countries. In her first assignment she joined a RAD-AID’s project team on a two-week mammography teaching assignment in Chandigarh, India. In her second assignment she was sent to assess the needs and sustainability of the project.