Monday, May 15, 1995, 12:15-5:00 PM PST

Lunch Speaker
Health Communication and the New Media: Old Wine in New Bottles, or Totally New Brew?

William A. Smith, Ed.D., Vice President, Academy for Educational Development

Concurrent Panels and Discussions (Session A):

Technology for the People: Community Networks

Avrum Bluming, M.D., M.A.C.P., President, Los Angeles Free-Net

Richard Bryant, Managing Director, Projects and R&D, La Plaza Telecommunity Foundation, Inc.

Barbara G. Smith, Project Coordinator, Sailor Project, Division of Library Development and Services, Maryland State Department of Education

I Heard It Through the Great Line: Toward Health Information for Everyone

Linda Neuhauser, Dr.P.H., Director, Wellness Guide Project, University of California, Berkeley

Joe Hoyt, Wellness Guide Project and California Alliance of Information and Referral Services

Patricia Perez Kornowski, Chief of Automated Management Section, Women's, Infants', and Children's Supplemental Nutrition Branch, Primary Care Family Health, California Department of Health Services

Jessica Torres, Technical Support, LatinoNet

Intellectual Property Issues

Fred H. Cate, Annenberg Senior Fellow, The Annenberg Washington Program

Rodney Friedman, J.D., Publisher, The Wellness Letter and The Johns Hopkins Health After 50 Newsletter

Jessica Litman, J.D., M.F.A, Professor of Law, Wayne State University

Reinventing Federal Consumer Health Information

Kevin Patrick, M.D., M.S., Senior Advisor for Communication Technology Policy, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Public Health Service, Chair

Robert Harmon, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Director, MetraHealth Center for Corporate Health

Shannah Koss, Co-Chair of Consumer Health Informatics Subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force, Office of Management and Budget

Richard Rubin, Executive Director, Foundation for Health Care Quality

The Informed Consumer: Self-Care, Self-Help, and Selecting Health Care

Edward Madara, M.S., Director, The American and New Jersey Self-Help Clearinghouses, Northwest Covenant Medical Center

Bob Bureau, Resource Development Director, National Empowerment Center

Carol Cronin, Senior Vice President, Health Pages

Linda K. Shelton, Director of Consumer Projects, National Committee for Quality Assurance

Internet Tools for Health Communication

John Silva, M.D., Program Manager, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense

Ellen Taylor, Senior Producer-Health, America Online

Celia Shapiro, Member of the Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation

Craig Wier, Ph.D., Enterprise Integration Technologies

Technology for Health Decision-Making

Al Lazar, Deputy Director, Center for Research Dissemination Liaison, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Gary Schwitzer, Production Director, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, Inc.

Paul Schyve, M.D., Senior Vice President, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations

Holly Jimison, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics, Oregon Health Sciences University

Health Information for Managing Demand

James Fries, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

David Gustafson, Ph.D., Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Don Kemper, M.S.I.E., M.P.H., President, Healthwise, Inc.

Don Vickery, M.D., President and CEO, Health Decisions, International, L.L.C.

Empowering Community Intermediaries

Nancy Milio, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.P.H.A., Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Professor of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Clarissa Tom, Manager of Survey and Research, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum

Robin Tremblay-McGaw, M.L.I.S., Senior Information Specialist, Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, San Francisco General Hospital

Put Prevention into Practice, Through Technology

Hurdis M. Griffith, Ph.D., R.N., Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Public Health Service

Linda M. Harris, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Policy Research, and Research Professor in the National Center for Communication Studies, George Washington University

Concurrent Panels and Discussions Repeated (Session B)

All panel discussions were repeated to allow broader participation.
The Technology for the People Panel was repeated with the following changes:

Technology for the People: Community Networks

Richard Civille, Executive Director, Center for Civic Networking

Mary Ellen Buning, M.S., FortNet, Board of Directors, Assistive Technology Consultant, Fort Collins Community Computer Network

Randy Groves, Coordinating Council Member, Seattle Community Network

Pamela Morgan, Project Coordinator, Office of Computer Education and Technology, Newark Board of Education

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