How’s this for an epidemiologist’s marriage vow?

I promise I will always fail to reject you!

Tammie Johnson an assistant professor at the University of North Florida with a sense of humor has decided to go public and is now marketing her brand of humor online emblazoned on t-shirts.

How does it happen that one goes from being a relatively new faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics to becoming a new business entrepreneur?

Johnson told the Monitor she started using humor to polish her teaching and presentation styles. “The material in epidemiology and biostatistics can be dry,” she said. Because of her sense of humor, unusual thoughts would pop into her head while teaching. She started using these ideas and joking around in a graduate biostatistics course to make her teaching more enjoyable. The things she made up were  “really funny”, she said, and a close friend who is an accountant with an ongoing interest in business suggested she make t-shirts to capture her slogans and sayings.

The result?

She has just created an online t-shirt sales company at EpiStuff.com . At this site, a half-dozen different slogans or graphs are available for $22 each on shirts of different colors and sizes.  ■

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