Lynnes

Dr. Lynne Kitei is an internationally acclaimed physician and health educator who recently pushed aside her successful medical career to pursue The Phoenix Lights book and award-winning Documentary project. She was leading the cutting edge era of early disease detection and prevention as Chief Clinical Consultant at the world renowned Arizona Heart Institute's Imaging-Prevention-Wellness Center in Phoenix, Arizona until coming forward, after seven years of anonymity, as a key witness to the still unexplained mass sighting throughout Arizona on March 13, 1997.

Before her medical training, Dr. Lynne appeared in over 30 featured and starring roles in professional musical comedies including Alice in Wonderland with Sherman Hemsley, Oklahoma starring Gordon MacRae, Guys & Dolls starring Betty Grable, and understudied for Barbara Eden in The Sound of Music. She also played the role of "Florence Arizona" in the 20th Century box office hit Raising Arizona starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, and John Goodman.

Dr. Lynne has been called the "woman pioneer" of medical communications in TV Guide after creating and producing innovative TV News health reports for NBC in Philadelphia in 1976. Since that time, Dr. Lynne has dedicated almost 30 years to global public awareness, wellness, and health education. She has appeared as the resident health reporter for NBC affiliates in Philadelphia, and Phoenix, and has been featured on USA Cable, FOX TV News, ABC, CNN and CBS affiliates, National Geographic TV, The Travel Channel, NBC Japan and MSNBC.

As the producer, writer, and director of the "You Make It!" prevention and education video and workbook curriculum series, Dr. Lynne has been recognized with the Telly Bronze Award in 1995, the National Education Film & Video Festival Silver Apple Award in 1994, the New York International Film Festival Finalist Award in 1992, and 1993, and many others. She worked under the auspices of the Arizona Community Foundation for 20 years to help fund and distribute her revolutionary prevention/education programs to schools, churches, youth groups and libraries throughout Arizona. Just Say KNOW to AIDS, Just Say KNOW To Drugs, Teen Pregnancy... Children Having Children and Drugs Don't Make IT! are currently being distributed by Discovery Education.

Dr. Lynne's innovative and renowned endeavors have been featured in publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide Magazine, Runner Magazine, Physician's Management Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, L.A. Times Magazine, Brazil's Revista UFO Magazine, National UFO Magazine and numerous Arizona Republic Newspaper articles. She has also been recognized in the "Who's Who of American Women" and was chosen as Woman of the Year in Pennsylvania.

Besides the hundreds of radio and TV appearances sharing the historic Arizona mass sighting, Dr. Lynne has been touring the US and abroad, introducing screenings of the internationally award winning Phoenix Lights Documentary, as well as presentations for her bestselling book, The Phoenix Lights…A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone and riveting power point lecture, "Coincidence or Communication?"

Contact: drlynne@msn.com

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