Presentations...
Michael J. Ackerman, PhD
Assistant Director, High Performance Computing and Communications
National Library of Medicine
Board of Directors,
American Telemedicine Association
Internet 2 and Beyond
Friday, Keynote
We’ve all grown accustomed to the Internet as an integral part of everyday life, but we need to be prepared for the next generation Internet. Led by more than 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, Internet2 develops and deploys advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Learn more about current projects and the Abilene network, a proving ground for high-bandwidth technologies.
Manuel Bekier, MS, CMI
Director, Biomedical Communications
State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center
The Nazi Biomedical Vision and the Health Sciences Profession
Saturday, 11:30am
How did healer’s turn into murderer’s? Why did the Nazi biomedical vision appeal to the medical profession? Are there lessons to be learned? Manny Bekier will provide a personal perspective and overview of The Holocaust, along with the significant contributing role of the medical profession in Nazi Germany.
Paul Crompton
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust/Cardiff University
Wales, United Kingdom
Modernizing Health Care Communications
Thursday, 10:40am
Financial, service and political pressures have forced the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain to look at the process by which patients progress through an increasingly complex healthcare system. To find solutions, modernizers have turned to industry for ideas. At the same time medical photographers and other communications professionals are facing major technological modernization through the development of digital photography, video and graphics.
Andrew A. Gillis
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine
Developing an Online Model for Disaster Response Training
Thursday, 10:40am
The VCU School of Medicine has created an online training system for Disaster Response Training. This online training, developed through HRSA grant funding, is designed to meet the new OSHA guidelines issued in December 2004 for hospital-based first receivers of disaster victims.
William Koffenberger
Director, Center for Instructional Design and Development
The George Washington University
Blackboard for Teaching and Learning
Thursday, Afternoon
At the George Washington University (GWU), we have adopted the Blackboard Academic Suite of teaching and learning tools to facilitate both generalized and specific instructional needs. Having previously had success in bringing customized e-learning courses and software infrastructure to GWU faculty and students, we have recently implemented the Blackboard Content System to augment...
Thomas Pham, Robert Manness, Laura Warfield, Wanda Patrick, and Victor Wahby, MD, PhD
Veterans Health Administration
Office of Special Projects
Washington, DC
Using Broadcast Television as a Communications Tool for Healthcare Information and Education: The VATV Experience
Thursday, 10:40am
VATV (Veterans Affairs Television) is a health education tool using television and the Internet. VATV focuses on health promotion and disease prevention issues central to a healthier nation. Each 30 minute episode is a talk show with a live audience, featuring experts and moderated by a host. Topics vary from health, wellness and nutrition to disease prevention.
Josef Reum, PhD
Associate Dean, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Managing in Turbulent Times
Thursday, Keynote
Using frameworks of time and complexity, work avoidance, and adult learning theory this presentation focuses on managing the “white water” of information overload and the increasing demands of “customers”. Our focus will be on re-framing systemic problems and our continuing ability to discover solutions resulting in increasing numbers of problems we are expected to address. Hopefully the session will increase participants’ capacity to tolerate ambiguity and manage expectations.
Richard Sheehe, MA
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences,
The George Washington University Medical Center
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication
Thursday
In this session, Richard Sheehe will discuss the communications challenges that arise in a crisis situation. These include changes in the way audiences process information under stress and the demands placed on an institution by the news media. The session will include tips on how communicators can best develop, refine and convey desired messages to specific audiences and to the public.
Michaeline (Mickey) Skiba, PhD
Monmouth University, School of Business Administration
Technology, Globalism and Politics at Work: What Executives Think Is Important
Thursday, 10:40am
Over six years ago, the author conducted a qualitative dissertation study with 20 business executives to determine how and what they learned during organizational changes within their workplaces. Specifically, the study examined how a select group of communication and education managers learned informally to master environmental change in their work organizations. Some of the questions addressed in this study included...
Mary Theofanos
Computer Scientist, Visualization and Usability Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Web Site Usability and Accessibility: Why bother?
Saturday, Keynote
Leader of the 508 and accessbility part of the team at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that developed www.usability.gov
Your team has spent a lot of time and effort building a web site and providing excellent content, but did you know that when viewers arrive at the site, a large number of them are unable to access the information?
Terrie R. Wheeler
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Evolving Skill Sets for Managing Change
Thursday, 11:00am
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Services Division seeks to be innovative in making information available in a variety of formats for digital natives entering the scientific workforce. To do so, ISD implemented a professional development program three years ago. Part of that program included...
