Biography

Ben Crandall has served in a variety of settings, such as medical oncology, a regional burn center, intensive care, organ transplantation, and the Red Cross. He also has taught nursing in three states and currently teaches Community/Public Health, Foundations of Nursing, and Ethics here at IWU. He and his wife Lisa have two grown sons and three grandchildren, and operate a grass-fed Irish Dexter Cattle farm east of Gas City. Lisa is a mechanical engineer with a consulting business in Gas City.

Educational Background:

• B.S.N., 1983, University of Tulsa
• M.S., 1987, University of Oklahoma

Interests

• Obesity as a detriment to role modeling in nursing — both from a secular (professional acceptability) and an evangelical (gluttony) perspective.
• Serves on community boards:
• Cancer Services of Grant County
• Grace House
• Grant-Blackford Mental Health Board
• Maternal Child Coalition of Grant County

• Former faculty liaison to Army ROTC