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Wired for Health and Well-Being: The
Emergence of Interactive Health Communication
Editors: Thomas R. Eng,
David H. Gustafson
Suggested Citation: Science Panel on Interactive
Communication and Health. Wired for Health and Well-Being: the Emergence of Interactive
Health Communication. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human
Services, US Government Printing Office, April 1999.
Download in PDF format: [Entire Document] [References]
Appendix H: Panel and Staff
Biographies
Members
Linda Adler, MPH, MA, develops Web-based
applications that enable users to obtain health-related information and social support and
to make health care decisions. She is a co-investigator for Kaiser Permanentes
Patient-Provider Matching Project, a research effort to determine the impact of decision
support in the area of physician selection, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
She is also a developer of the discussion group forum for Kaiser Permanente Online. Linda
has worked for many years in the areas of computerized decision support, health education,
and shared decisionmaking. In addition, she is a co-author of The 1996 Health
Informatics Directory. She has a masters degree in communication research and a
masters degree in public health.
Farrokh Alemi, PhD, is an associate professor of
health administration at George Mason University's College of Nursing and Health Science.
He received his PhD in industrial engineering (decision analysis) from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. The Health Care Financing Administration, the National Institute of
Drug Abuse, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, and a number of
other foundations and private companies have supported his research. Dr. Alemi's research
has focussed on the application of computers to improving health of underserved
populations. In 1996, the October supplement of Medical Care was devoted to his
research on computer services to cocaine-using pregnant patients. Dr. Alemi has provided
testimony to the US Congress concerning the use of computer services to patients' homes.
He has started two software companies, and is currently president of TelePractice, a
company focussed on online treatment of substance abuse. Dr. Alemi teaches online about
various topics including medical informatics. More information and contact details are
available at http://mason.gmu.edu/~falemi/informatics/frcv.htm.
David Ansley* is editor-in-chief of OnHealth.com, a
consumer-oriented health news and information Web site published by OnHealth Network Co.
of Seattle. During his tenure with the Panel, he was employed by Consumers Union for four
years, where he was science editor of Consumer Reports magazine and the Web editor
of Consumer Reports Online. He was also the science and medicine editor of the San
Jose Mercury News and acting director of a science journalism fellowship program at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a degree in communication from Stanford
University.
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, holds the
Moehlman Bascom Professorship, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Brennan received a masters of science in nursing from the
University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in industrial engineering from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She completed seven years of clinical practice in critical care nursing
and psychiatric nursing before holding several academic positions. She developed and
directed the ComputerLink, an electronic network designed to reduce isolation and improve
self-care among home care patients, and is presently overseeing the HeartCare initiative,
a Web-based cardiac recovery service. Dr. Brennan is a fellow of the American Academy of
Nursing and a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. She is a founding
associate editor for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Currently president-elect, Dr. Brennan will serve as president of the 4,000 member
American Medical Informatics Association.
Molly J. Coye, MD, MPH, is a senior vice president
in public policy practice and director of the West Coast Office of the Lewin Group.
Previously, she served as executive vice president of strategic development for HealthDesk
Corporation, a developer of software for online patient health and disease management. Dr.
Coye also served as senior vice president for the Good Samaritan Health System, a
nonprofit integrated health care system and the largest provider system in the Santa Clara
Valley. She was responsible for the operation of four hospitals, the Visiting Nurse
Association, the Good Samaritan Medical Foundation, a managed care delivery system
including a multispecialty group practice, and an IPA serving 70,000 HMO members.
Additional professional positions held by Dr. Coye include director of the California
Department of Health Services, commissioner of health for the State of New Jersey, and
head of the Division of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health. Dr. Coye is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of
Public Administration. She has authored two books on Chinese history and is a Trustee of
the China Medical Board.
David H. Gustafson, PhD, MS (Chair), is professor of
industrial engineering and preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
where he directs the development and evaluation of CHESS (the Comprehensive Health
Enhancement Support System), a computer system to help people cope with breast cancer,
AIDS/HIV, heart disease, Alzheimers disease, alcohol abuse, and sexual assault. He
is a recognized expert in how demographic factors influence the use of interactive health
communication technologies. Dr. Gustafson also has developed new methods and models to
document consumer needs in quality improvement and to measure customer satisfaction,
severity of illness, medical underservice, and quality of care. He has served on numerous
national committees and task forces related to health, health care quality, and
informatics. Dr. Gustafson is the author of four books and 100 papers in professional
journals, proceedings, and books and recently received the National Information
Infrastructure Award of Merit. He received his MS and PhD from the University of Michigan.
Joseph V. Henderson, MD, MA, MPhil, has 15 years
experience as a multimedia developer and medical educator. He founded and directed the
Center for Interactive Media in Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, where he developed ground-breaking multimedia
applications that are still considered prime examples of exciting and effective uses of
these technologies. For the past decade he has directed the Interactive Media Laboratory
(IML) at Dartmouth Medical School, where he has been developing interactive multimedia
programs for health professionals and patients. The latter group includes four of the
Shared Decision Programs distributed by the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision
Making. Dr. Henderson has consulted extensively for industry in the areas of
technology-based training, medical informatics, multimedia production, and networked
multimedia services. Recently, he has been assisting the development of a global distance
learning system for the US Army by developing advanced applications and tools better to
anticipate the arrival of ubiquitous, broadband networks. The IML and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention have just begun a project to develop a next-generation
distance learning system for public health.
Holly B. Jimison, PhD, is assistant professor of
medical informatics and assistant professor of public health and preventive medicine at
Oregon Health Sciences University. She also serves as director of the Informed Patient
Decisions Group, conducting research on methods to enable patients to be active and
informed participants in their health care decisions. Current research and consulting
projects include work on computer decision models to tailor consumer health information;
communication methods using Web, phone, and paging technologies for patients in the home;
measuring patient preferences for health outcomes; and the evaluation of self-care and
shared decisionmaking interventions. Dr. Jimison received her doctorate in medical
information sciences at Stanford University, with dissertation work on using computer
decision models to tailor patient education materials to individuals.
Nancy Metcalf** specializes in health, medicine, and
environmental topics as associate editor of Consumer Reports, published by
Consumers Union. A graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism, she has been a science writer and editor for the past 20 years. She
has won a Front Page Award, a Science-in-Society Journalism Award from the Council for the
Advancement of Science Writing, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award.
Albert G. Mulley, Jr., MD, MPP, is associate
professor of medicine and associate professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School,
and chief of the General Medicine Division and director of the Medical Practices
Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. After receiving degrees in medicine
and public policy from Harvard, he completed his residency training in internal medicine
at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is author and editor of the leading text, Primary
Care Medicine, as well as many articles in the medical and health services research
literature. Dr. Mulley has conducted pioneering work in the application of clinical
epidemiology and decision theory to the evaluation of medical intensive care, primary care
including prevention and screening, and other health care services. He served on the
Clinical Practice and Clinical Efficacy Assessment Committees of the American College of
Physicians and on a number of committees of the Institute of Medicine addressing issues in
clinical research and clinical quality improvement. Dr. Mulley has been a member of many
professional organizations, including the Institute of Medicine Committee for Quality
Review and Assurance in Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Health
Services Research Study Section of the National Center for Health Services Research. He
has been recognized as a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General
Internal Medicine.
John W. Noell, PhD, is a senior research scientist
at Oregon Research Institute and vice-president and chief technologist for the Oregon
Center for Applied Science. He has been developing award-winning interactive multimedia
programs in biology and health for more than 25 years. Emphasizing theory-based approaches
to behavior change, Dr. Noell has developed numerous public health-oriented programs with
extensive applications of tailoring and message framing. Programs he has developed include
adolescent pregnancy prevention, smoking cessation, diet change, date-rape prevention,
diabetes management, and others. Dr. Noell designs programs for use in various
environments (e.g., clinics, worksites, schools, and homes) using kiosks, LAN-based
applications, and the Internet. His current work involves the design and analysis of
health communications for interactive applications in behavior change.
Kevin Patrick, MD, MS, is director of the Student
Health Center at San Diego State University and adjunct professor of public health at San
Diego State University. He is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Preventive
Medicine, past president of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, and
served on the Secretarys Council for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the
US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In addition, he was a senior advisor in
communication technology policy at HHS, where he co-chaired the Information Infrastructure
Task Forces Sub-Committee on Consumer Health Information and convened the Science
Panel on Interactive Communication and Health. Dr. Patrick also served as an advisor to
both the NIST Advanced Technology Program and the NTIA Telecommunications and Information
Infrastructure Assistance Program. He was a primary investigator or co-investigator in
more than $12 million in public and private research and training grants and has authored
or co-authored more than 80 scientific articles, book chapters, commentaries, and
abstracts on a broad range of topics, including school and student health, public health,
infectious diseases, behavioral health counseling, information and communication
technology, and consumer health information. Dr. Patrick is board certified in both
preventive medicine and family practice.
Thomas C. Reeves, PhD, is a professor of
instructional technology at the University of Georgia where he teaches program evaluation,
multimedia design, and research methods. Since receiving his PhD at Syracuse University in
1979, he has developed and evaluated numerous interactive multimedia programs for both
education and training. In addition to giving more than 100 presentations and workshops in
the United States, he has been an invited speaker in many countries including Australia,
Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Finland, Malaysia, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Sweden,
Switzerland, and Taiwan. He is a past president of the Association for the Development of
Computer-based Instructional Systems (ADCIS) and a former Fulbright Lecturer. In 1995, Dr.
Reeves was selected as one of the "Top 100" people in multimedia by Multimedia
Producer magazine, and since 1997, he has been the editor of the Journal of
Interactive Learning Research. His research interests include evaluation of
instructional technology for education and training, socially responsible research goals
and methods in education, mental models and interactive multimedia user interface issues,
electronic performance support systems (EPSS), and applications of instructional
technology in developing countries.
Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, is an assistant
professor of pediatrics and of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and the
co-director of youth studies at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention.
Dr. Robinson received his BS and MD degrees from Stanford University and his MPH degree in
maternal and child health from the University of California at Berkeley. After internship
and residency training in pediatrics at Childrens Hospital in Boston and Harvard
Medical School, he returned to Stanford as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical
Scholar. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 1993 and was appointed assistant professor
in 1996. Dr. Robinson performs school-, family-, and community-based prevention research,
focusing on reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease and cancer, childhood obesity
prevention and treatment, tobacco and alcohol use prevention, the effects of television
viewing on health-related behaviors, and the use of interactive communication technologies
to promote health behavior change. Dr. Robinson is board certified in pediatrics, is a
fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and practices general pediatrics at Lucile
Salter Packard Childrens Hospital at Stanford.
Victor J. Strecher, PhD, MPH, is a behavioral
scientist whose work has focused on developing and testing strategies for health behavior
change in medical care, community, and occupational settings; studying methods for
improving the quality of tailored health communications; researching the determinants of
health decisionmaking behavior; and employing experimental and survey research methods in
conducting evaluative analyses. Dr. Strecher is a professor and associate director at the
University of Michigans Comprehensive Cancer Center. At this center, Dr. Strecher
has created the Health Media Research Laboratorya group of behavioral and medical
researchers, computer programmers, instructional designers, and creative artists organized
to develop innovative health education interventions using advanced communications
technologies.
* Served until April 1998
** Served beginning April 1998
Staff
Thomas R. Eng, VMD, MPH, is the study director for
the Science Panel on Interactive Communication and Health. His areas of interest include
the application of communication and information technology in health communication,
health care, public health, and epidemiological research. He has a special interest in the
use of interactive media to improve the health of underserved populations. Most recently,
he was a study director at the Institute of Medicine, where he directed the report, The
Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Previous positions in his
public health career include: an American Association for the Advancement of Science
Congressional Fellow in the US Senate, Peace Corps epidemiologist, a preventive
medicine resident and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, and an epidemiologist in two State health departments. He has
received several awards from the US Public Health Service and other national health
organizations. Author or co-author of more than 85 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters,
and abstracts on a wide range of health and technology issues, he is also an associate
editor of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives.
Anne Restino, MA, is health communications manager
for the National Health Information Center, where she assists in the development and
management of Web-based health communication projects and serves as a senior marketing and
outreach specialist and liaison to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
She received her masters degree in health communication from the Emerson College-Tufts
University School of Medicine joint program. Her graduate work investigated the usefulness
of the Web as a health communication tool and included the development, evaluation, and
management of the Emerson-Tufts Health Communication Resources Web site. Ms. Restino
has served as project manager for several academic Web sites and has written and spoken on
health communication applications for the Web. Previously, she worked in the sales and
marketing operations at various consumer product, service, and information organizations.
Paul Kim is a research assistant in the Office of
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. In addition to supporting the Panel, he
coordinates the Public Health Functions Project, a collaboration of the US Public Health
Service agencies and numerous national public health associations that are convened to
strengthen the public health infrastructure. He is a graduate of Stanford University with
a degree in biological sciences.
Mary Jo Deering, PhD, is acting deputy director of
the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and director of its Health
Communication and Telehealth Team. She created the Science Panel on Interactive
Communication and Health and now oversees its work. She chairs the Work Group for the
Health Communication focus area for Healthy People 2010 and serves on the core team within
ODPHP that is coordinating the development of Healthy People 2010. She is the lead staff
for the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Work Group on a National
Health Information Infrastructure. She chairs the steering committees for healthfinder®
(www.healthfinder.gov), the official Federal gateway to consumer health information, and
for Partnerships for Networked Consumer Health Information, which presents national
conferences and the innovative Technology Games. Dr. Deering served on the Federal
Communication Commissions Advisory Committee on Telecommunication and Health. She is
a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Health Communication: International
Perspectives, and has authored and co-authored book chapters and articles on health
communication and new media.
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