Schedule...
Thursday, June 29
8:30 am Welcome: Shelley Bader, Associate Vice President, Educational Resources, George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC)
8:40 am Morning Keynote Presentation: Managing in Turbulent Times
Dr. Josef Reum, George Washington University Medical Center
9:30 am Plenary Session: Communications in Turbulent Times

Managing the Message: Communicating in a Crisis
Richard Sheehe, MA, GWUMC Media Relations

Dealing with Disaster:  The Bad and the Ugly (there is no Good)
Jackson Townsend, Ph.D., Director (retired), Division of Learning Resources
LSU School of Medicine
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Concurrent Session One: New Models, New Roles for Health and Science Communications:

Online Model for Disaster Response Training
Andrew Gillis, Virginia Commonwealth University
Managing Change: Evolving Skill Sets
Terrie Wheeler, NIST
Modernizing Health Care Communications
Paul Crompton, Cardiff University
Using Broadcast Television as a Communication Tool for Healthcare Information/Education: The VATV Experience
Thomas Pham, Veterans Health Administration
10:45 am Concurrent Session Two: Technology, Globalism and Politics At Work

What Executives Think Is Important

Michaeline Skiba, EdD, Monmouth College
Noon Boxed lunch with Sponsors
1:00 pm Plenary Session: Communications in Turbulent Times

Virtual Microscopy Lab: Lessons from the Field
Shelley Bader, James Michelson, Alexandra Gomes, Michael Driscoll, Lynn Povanda
2:00 pm Curricular Support from a Learning Management System

William Koffenberger, former director of the GW’s Instructional Technology Lab
3:00 pm Clinical Learning and Simulation Skills Center 

Standardized Patient Examining Area, and the Surgical Simulation and Demonstration Center
James Michelson, M.D, Director, Clinical Informatics
4:30 pm Sushi Reception sponsored by B-Line Medical
6:00 pm Optional Networking Event
International Spy Museum and Dinner
Evening ABCD Member Dinner and Roundtable Discussion (ABCD members only)