Robert H. Palestini is the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Studies at Saint Joseph's University. He has served as the Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and has hosted such dignitaries as former U. S. President Gerald Ford and Pope John Paul II to Philadelphia. He has been involved with education since first teaching high school over three decades ago. Karen Palestini Falk Dr. Palestini's daughter is a graduate of Villanova Law School and is a practicing attorney in a large law firm with offices in Philadelphia Pittsburgh and Princeton New Jersey. Her specialties include school law and health care law. She has taught School Law Health Care Law and Health Care Ethics in the graduate school at Saint Joseph's University. . Language: English