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Mark S. Benno, PhDEducation Technology Consultant
U.S. Education Division
Apple Inc.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) from 1994 to 2006, Jordan J. Cohen, MD led the Association’s support and service to the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals. He launched new initiatives in each of the association’s mission areas of education, research and patient care; expanded and modernized the AAMC’s services for medical students, applicants, residents, and constituents; strengthened the association’s communications, advocacy, and data gathering efforts, and established many initiatives for improving medical education and clinical care. As the voice of academic medicine for more than a decade, Dr. Cohen also spoke extensively on the need to promote greater racial and ethnic diversity in medicine, to uphold professional and scientific values, and to transform the nation’s health care system.
Prior to his leadership of the AAMC, he served as dean of the medical school and professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and president of the medical staff at University Hospital. Before that, Dr. Cohen was professor and associate chairman of Medicine at the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine, and physician-in-chief and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center.
Dr. Cohen currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York, the Morehouse School of Medicine, the National Medical Fellowships, the National Library of Medicine, and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science & Community Development. He is a former chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and served as president of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Cohen is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine on the Harvard service at the Boston City Hospital. He also completed a fellowship in nephrology at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He has authored more than 100 publications and is a former editor of Kidney International’s Nephrology Forum.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/286/16/1957"] Text[1]=["Panel: Taking Action, Lessons Learned","Mark S. Benno, PhD
Education Technology Consultant
U.S. Education Division
Apple Inc.
Mark Benno PH.D. is an Education Development Executive for Apple Computer in Florida. In this role he helps people to envision and develop effective technology integration programs. He likes to challenge people to exceed their dreams; professional development is his passion. Most of his work over the past fourteen years has been in faculty development (for educators of students in preschool - graduate school). Among other places, he has worked at Nolan Middle School in Killeen ISD in Texas, Hillcrest PDS, a professional development school for Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and Tech4Learning in San Diego.
As a speaker, Mark addresses educators nationwide on the future of technology and education and how students today impact our educational systems. He also leads workshops that explore curriculum integration, technology planning, film production in the classroom, digital photography, clay animation, and video conferencing applications for grades K - 12. He has delivered keynotes in 35 states, Australia and New Zealand.
Mark completed his Ph.D. in technology and teacher education, with a minor in curriculum and instruction, at Mississippi State University in 2000. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator from the class of ’99 and is writing his third book. Mark is also past president of the Texas Association for Educational Technology (TAET).
Barbara Nelson
Area Development Manager
Southeast Education
Apple Inc
Lynn Johnson, PhD
Director of Dental Informatics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Lynn Johnson is the Director of Dental Informatics at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, where she is responsible for leading the implementation of information technology into the traditional teaching and learning activities of the dental curriculum as well as into the clinical education and operations. She is an avid supporter of collaborative projects such as the University of Michigan's Digital Asset Managment System or DAMS. She is currently the principal investigator on an NIH grant to develop state-of-the-art educational materials about genetics in dentistry and she is also the co-prinicpal investigator on a second NIH grant to investigate the teaching of research skills to dental students using computer-based simulations. Lynn completed her Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Iowa.
"] Text[2]=["Systemic Design of Alternative eLearning Environments: A Grounded Approach to Using Podcasts and Other Media","Atsusi Hirumi, PhD
Associate Professor & Co-Chair
Instructional Technology
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
Atsusi Hirumi is an Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Central Florida. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Hirumi has concentrated on developing e-learning systems, assisting universities, community colleges, K-12 school districts and businesses across the United States and in Mexico to establish online certificate and degree programs. His research centers on the design of alternative e-learning environments, with a current focus on storytelling and game-based approaches to teaching and learning.
Based on his work, Dr. Hirumi has published over a dozen refereed journal articles, nine book chapters and has made over 100 presentations at international, national and state conferences on related topics. Awards include the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) award for Commitment to Excellence and Innovation, the WebCT Exemplary Online Course Award (in 2003 and 2001), the University of Houston-Clear Lake Star Faculty Award, the Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Practitioner Award, the ENRON Award for Innovation, and a 2nd place Award for Excellence for an electronic performance support system designed to help faculty develop and deliver interactive television courses.
"] Text[3]=["Cutting Edge 3-D Virtual Environment for the Health Care Professional","Ed Fletcher
Executive Producer, Pulse!! Project
BreakAway, LTD.
Dr. Roman Cibirka
Vice President for Instruction and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs,
Medical College of Georgia
Dr. Cibirka came to MCG in 1996 as an assistant professor in the School of Dentistry Department of Oral Rehabilitation. He presently holds appointments in the School of Dentistry as an associate professor and assistant residency director of the Postgraduate Prosthodontics Program. He is a co-director of the Nobel Biocare/MCG Center of Excellence. He sits on the editorial boards for the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry and Quintessence International and is a reviewer for the Journal of Prosthodontics.
A member of the Academy of Prosthodontics, Regents Administrative Committee on Distance Education Council and Apple iTunes Health Steering Board, Dr. Cibirka also serves on numerous MCG committees, including the Enrollment Management Council, Patient Family Centered Care Curriculum Committee and University Assessment Committee.
He has presented lectures on instructional innovations in Solutions Based Dental Education as part of two Nobel Biocare World Tours in more than 25 countries including Japan, France and Australia. He also presented Digital Game Based Learning in Health Sciences Education at the Games 4 Health Congress in Baltimore, where he showcased a highly innovative virtual dental office educational simulation for dental training.
Dr. Cibirka earned his dental degree from the University of Detroit School of Dentistry and a master's degree in prosthodontics from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
"] Text[4]=["Integration of Digital Media With Electronic Medical Records","Glen Tullman
Chairman and CEO
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Chicago, IL
Glen E. Tullman joined Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer in August 1997 to lead the Company's transition into the Healthcare Information Sector. He led the Company's Initial Public Offering and Secondary Offerings of the Company, which is now traded on NASDAQ (MDRX) and has driven the Company to becoming the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information services to physicians.
Prior to joining Allscripts, Mr. Tullman was Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Systems, Inc., a leading healthcare information services company providing resource management solutions to large integrated healthcare networks, from October 1994 to July 1997. Mr. Tullman led the company's Initial Public Offering and secondary offerings. HBO and Company of Atlanta acquired Enterprise in 1997 in a stock transaction valued in excess of $250 million.
From 1983 to 1994, Mr. Tullman served in a number of management roles including President and Chief Operating Officer of CCC Information Services, Inc., a provider of information systems to the country's largest property and casualty insurers. Under his leadership, the company grew from $17 million to more than $100 million and is publicly traded.
Mr. Tullman graduated from Bucknell University Magna Cum Laude, with a double major in Economics and Psychology. Upon graduation, he joined the Executive Office of the President of the United States in Washington, D.C. and later accepted a fellowship to study social anthropology at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, England. Mr. Tullman serves on the International Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and on the Board of Trustees of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). He also is Co-Chair of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI), a $100 million campaign, led by Allscripts and Dell Computers, to deliver free electronic prescribing to every physician in America. In 2006, he was named CEO of the Year by the Illinois Information Technology Association.
"] Text[5]=["Unraveling the DNA of Digital Media: The Effective Use of Digital Media in Medical Education","Michael Hoad, MA
Vice President of Communications, USF
Associate Vice President
Communications, USF Health
In his dual role as Associate Vice President of Communications for USF Health and Vice President of Communications for the University of South Florida, Michael Hoad, MA, oversees all communications, marketing and media relations. Under his leadership, the communications team is the point of contact for local, regional and national media- proactively pitching stories to news organizations and responding to daily requests from print, broadcast and web based media. Mr. Hoad oversees message-based, integrated communications in support of the missions of USF Health and USF.
Named Associate Vice President of USF Health Communications in 2005, Mr. Hoad is responsible for public affairs, community engagement, corporate communications and marketing for USF's colleges of medicine, nursing and public health. He was named Vice President of Communications for USF by President Judy Genshaft in February 2008.
Since joining the university in 1988, Mr. Hoad has directed media relations, public affairs and advancement for what was known as the Health Sciences Center and played a pivotal role in the rebranding USF Health in 2005. Mr. Hoad began his career in communications as a print journalist, writing for the Tampa Tribune, the Oakland Tribune in California, and a free lance writer-intern at UPI news wire service in San Francisco. His academic degrees include: The Poynter Institute of Media Studies, Fellowship in Newspaper Management, 1986; Stanford University, MA in Communication (Print Journalism), 1986; Yale University, MA in International Relations, 1980; and Drew University, BA in Political Science, English Literature, Minor in Spanish, 1978.
Mr. Hoad is a veteran media trainer and frequent speaker on the topics of media ethics & human subject research and using mass media as a vehicle for Public Health messaging – a guest speaker and presenter to the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and other institutes.Lynn Johnson, PhD
Director of Dental Informatics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Lynn Johnson is the Director of Dental Informatics at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, where she is responsible for leading the implementation of information technology into the traditional teaching and learning activities of the dental curriculum as well as into the clinical education and operations. She is an avid supporter of collaborative projects such as the University of Michigan's Digital Asset Managment System or DAMS. She is currently the principal investigator on an NIH grant to develop state-of-the-art educational materials about genetics in dentistry and she is also the co-principal investigator on a second NIH grant to investigate the teaching of research skills to dental studetns using computer-based simulations. Lynn completed her Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Iowa.
http://www.dent.umich.edu/about/aboutschool/news/news2008/news010308.htmlWilliam H. Riffee, PhD
Dean
College of Pharmacy
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Dr. Riffee received his BS in Pharmacy from West Virginia University in 1967 and then served as a Clinical Pharmacy Officer with the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in the Division of Hospitals from 1967 until 1970.
He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology- in 1975 from The Ohio State University with a major research interest in behavioral effects and biochemical mechanisms of central nervous system stimulants.
He continued his research and teaching career in the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas from 1975 until May, 1996. During that period, his research interests focused on CNS stimulants and he studied the mechanism by which these agents induce a "reverse tolerance" and thereby elicit the neurochemical basis for "stimulant-induced psychosis".
Since 1990, Dr. Riffee has concentrated his research and teaching efforts in the area of educational technology and its utility in the classroom. He is known nationally an innovator in the area of teaching and the use of television and computer-based presentation technology as well as the use of the computer as a learning tool. He has also been involved in the design and installation of electronic classrooms that incorporate video with computer workstations for student's use. He also chaired the Curriculum Committee of the College of Pharmacy of the University of Texas at Austin which implemented a dramatically new professional pharmacy curriculum in the Fall of 1996.
Since 1975, Dr. Riffee has been funded from the National Institutes of Mental Health and more recently through grants and contracts associated with teaching technology. Over the years, he has received nearly 2 million dollars in funding for his teaching and research efforts.
June 1, 1996, Dr. Riffee was named Dean and Professor, College of Pharmacy, The University of Florida. He continues his interest in educational technology as he pursues his work as an administrative officer of the University. In addition to serving as Dean, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of Shands HealthCare.
Jeffrey Taekman, MD
Assistant Dean
Educational Technology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Dr. Taekman is the Assistant Dean for Educational Technology, an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, and the Director of the Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center at Duke University Medical Center. He is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his internship, residency and fellowship training in neuroanesthesia with an emphasis on neural monitoring at the Penn State University School of Medicine. He joined the Duke faculty in August of 1999.
In addition to his busy clinical practice, Dr. Taekman works industriously to expand the use of simulation in healthcare education and patient safety. He is active both locally and nationally on subjects related to computers, simulation, education, and patient safety. Dr. Taekman was elected Secretary and served on the Board of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is a member of the editorial board of Simulation in Healthcare: the journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is a member of the Committee on Simulation Education of the American Society of Anesthesiology.
Dr. Taekman’s research interests include a broad range of patient safety topics including the use of virtual environments and other immersive learning techniques in healthcare education, improving the safety and quality of clinical trials, and improving the quality of information on the internet.
Lynn Johnson, PhD
Director of Dental Informatics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Lynn Johnson is the Director of Dental Informatics at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, where she is responsible for leading the implementation of information technology into the traditional teaching and learning activities of the dental curriculum as well as into the clinical education and operations. She is an avid supporter of collaborative projects such as the University of Michigan's Digital Asset Managment System or DAMS. She is currently the principal investigator on an NIH grant to develop state-of-the-art educational materials about genetics in dentistry and she is also the co-prinicpal investigator on a second NIH grant to investigate the teaching of research skills to dental studetns using computer-based simulations. Lynn completed her Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Iowa.
"] Text[6]=["Welcome","Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA
Steering Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, USF Health
Dean, College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, has bridged the art, science and business of medicine with through a unique background consisting of academic and administrative medicine, clinical practice and business training. He now runs USF Health, an inter-professional partnership dedicated to transforming health care, and the wider concept of health.
As Vice President for USF Health at the University of South Florida, he is building a unique partnership among colleges of medicine, nursing and public health as well as schools of physical therapy and biomedical science. As Dean of the College of Medicine at USF, he has begun a change process to take a young medical school and create a modern clinical, educational and research program based on the entrepreneurial-academic model.
Dr. Klasko moved to Tampa, Florida, in 2005 after his previous role as Dean of Drexel University College of Medicine and CEO of Drexel University Physicians.
At Drexel, Dr Klasko was known for recruiting international leaders in clinical, research and academic roles, creating centers of excellence in neuroscience, microbiology, cancer and women's health research. He rebuilt clinical departments in orthopaedics, cardiology and OB-GYN which have become market share leaders. As the dean of the nation's largest private medical school, he built on Drexel University's strengths in information sciences and biomedical engineering to lead the nation as the first completely wireless medical school, with video streamed lectures and virtual laboratories as supplements to the traditional curriculum. He also helped turn traditional weaknesses into strengths. For example, fifty percent of the medical staff at the main University hospital are volunteer faculty/private physicians. This had been a source of conflict and a barrier to successful integrative clinical, educational and clinical research growth. He created a partner and utilizer system whereby salaried and volunteer could be viewed as partners in the education and clinical research enterprise
"] Text[7]=["The Student - What Do They Want From Digital Media?","Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA
Steering Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, USF Health
Dean, College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, has bridged the art, science and business of medicine with through a unique background consisting of academic and administrative medicine, clinical practice and business training. He now runs USF Health, an inter-professional partnership dedicated to transforming health care, and the wider concept of health.
As Vice President for USF Health at the University of South Florida, he is building a unique partnership among colleges of medicine, nursing and public health as well as schools of physical therapy and biomedical science. As Dean of the College of Medicine at USF, he has begun a change process to take a young medical school and create a modern clinical, educational and research program based on the entrepreneurial-academic model.
Dr. Klasko moved to Tampa, Florida, in 2005 after his previous role as Dean of Drexel University College of Medicine and CEO of Drexel University Physicians.
At Drexel, Dr Klasko was known for recruiting international leaders in clinical, research and academic roles, creating centers of excellence in neuroscience, microbiology, cancer and women's health research. He rebuilt clinical departments in orthopaedics, cardiology and OB-GYN which have become market share leaders. As the dean of the nation's largest private medical school, he built on Drexel University's strengths in information sciences and biomedical engineering to lead the nation as the first completely wireless medical school, with video streamed lectures and virtual laboratories as supplements to the traditional curriculum. He also helped turn traditional weaknesses into strengths. For example, fifty percent of the medical staff at the main University hospital are volunteer faculty/private physicians. This had been a source of conflict and a barrier to successful integrative clinical, educational and clinical research growth. He created a partner and utilizer system whereby salaried and volunteer could be viewed as partners in the education and clinical research enterprise"] Text[8]=["A Conversation with Geekbrief.tv's Cali Lewis: Shiny, Happy Tech News","
Cali Lewis
Host & Producer
Geekbrief.tv
Cali Lewis is the presenter of a popular technology podcast called Geek Brief TV.
GeekBrief.Tv is a tech podcast that explains and sometimes reviews new gadgets, websites, and toys. It was created by self-proclaimed geeks Luria Petrucci (aka Cali Lewis) and her husband Neal Campbell. It circles around the idea of a Geek Intelligence Agency (GIA) that provides knowledge to geeks everywhere. The reason for GeekBrief being so short is because, according to Cali, geeks don’t have time to hear an in depth report. www.geekbrief.tv
Afshad M. Mistri
Medical Market Manager,
Apple Inc.
Afshad Mistri is currently the Apple Marketing Manager for Medicine, working on projects that are revolutionary in healthcare. He is also manages the Apple Workgroup Cluster for High Performance Computing.
Afshad has 19 years of experience successfully managing markets in high-end graphics and supercomputing technologies, globally. Before joining Apple, Afshad was with Silicon Graphics, Inc. for 15 years, where he managed medical imaging, visual simulation and large scale immersive visualization markets.
"] Text[10]=["Mobility in Higher Education and Health Care","Miguel YoungAndy Wasklewicz
Technology Architect
Stanford University School of Medicine
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning & Knowledge
Andy has served as the Technology Architect for the Stanford School of Medicine since July 2007. Andy's current work focuses on architecting many of the technologies and systems in the new Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge that will be completed in Spring 2010. Prior to joining Stanford, Andy was the Chief Technology Officer for the Bay Area Video Coalition, a nationally recognized media arts non-profit dedicated to developing innovative uses for new technologies in arts and education. Before working at BAVC, Andrew was the founder and principal of DigEd, a successful educational technology consulting firm that focused on application development and systems integration for non-profits and K-20 educational institutions. Prior to his work in California, Andy was a Senior Systems Analyst at Arizona State University where his research focused on video compression and streaming, high-speed wireless networking, and digital media asset management.
John attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1994.He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.
From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Washington, DC as a legislative aide to Congressman Fortney \"Pete\" Stark and as a grassroots coordinator for the American Physical Therapy Association. He then joined the staff at Harvard Law School, where he was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first Assistant Director from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000.
While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. He served as President and CEO, and led to the company's acquisition in the summer of 2003). He has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences
"] Text[13]=["Netter To Go: Transforming Trusted Learning, Reference, and Assessment Resources for the Mobile Digital Age","S. Mark Williams
Founder & CEO
Modality, Inc.
Durham, NC
S. Mark Williams is the CEO and the driving force behind Modality’s overall business strategy and creative direction. Mark has been creating digital learning applications for more than 20 years. Before starting Modality in early 2006, Mark founded Pyramis Studios, a biomedical media communications group, where he served as President and Creative Director. He authored and led the development of the Sylvius project, a popular suite of software applications for teaching the structure of the human brain. He also spearheaded the development of award-winning web design and animation for major universities and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Williams is an adjunct research scientist in the Department of Neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center and is an author, editor and illustrator of the leading neurobiology textbook. He graduated cum laude from Davidson College and has an M.Phil and Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Yale University. Mark was recently recognized as one of ten recipients nationwide of The Apple Award for Innovation in Science for his work over the last decade using Apple products in medical education, including the creation of brain anatomy study guides for the iPod.
Nancy Hill
Senior Education Specialist,
Academic Technology Services,
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX
Nancy Hill received a masters degree in Psychology and a second masters in Instructional Technology from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Educational Technology at Texas A & M University. Nancy has worn many hats in education, including designing and delivering instructor-led courses (life skills, psychobehavioral topics, cancer awareness, new employee orientation), designing and developing online courses, implementing and managing an enterprise learning management system, designing continuing professional education, and serving as adjunct faculty for Lee College. In her current position as senior educational specialist at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Nancy provides instructional design and development for departments within Academic Affairs. She is particularly interested in cognitive and motivational elements in learning, and best practices for effective use of emerging technologies.
"] Text[15]=["Creation Lab (Hands On): Digital Media in HealthCare Education","Mark S. Benno, PhD
Education Technology Consultant
U.S. Education Division
Apple Inc.
Mark Benno PH.D. is an Education Development Executive for Apple Computer in Florida. In this role he helps people to envision and develop effective technology integration programs. He likes to challenge people to exceed their dreams; professional development is his passion. Most of his work over the past fourteen years has been in faculty development (for educators of students in preschool - graduate school). Among other places, he has worked at Nolan Middle School in Killeen ISD in Texas, Hillcrest PDS, a professional development school for Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and Tech4Learning in San Diego.
As a speaker, Mark addresses educators nationwide on the future of technology and education and how students today impact our educational systems. He also leads workshops that explore curriculum integration, technology planning, film production in the classroom, digital photography, clay animation, and video conferencing applications for grades K - 12. He has delivered keynotes in 35 states, Australia and New Zealand.
Mark completed his Ph.D. in technology and teacher education, with a minor in curriculum and instruction, at Mississippi State University in 2000. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator from the class of ’99 and is writing his third book. Mark is also past president of the Texas Association for Educational Technology (TAET).
Lynn Johnson, PhD
Director of Dental Informatics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Lynn Johnson is the Director of Dental Informatics at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, where she is responsible for leading the implementation of information technology into the traditional teaching and learning activities of the dental curriculum as well as into the clinical education and operations. She is an avid supporter of collaborative projects such as the University of Michigan's Digital Asset Managment System or DAMS. She is currently the principal investigator on an NIH grant to develop state-of-the-art educational materials about genetics in dentistry and she is also the co-prinicpal investigator on a second NIH grant to investigate the teaching of research skills to dental studetns using computer-based simulations. Lynn completed her Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Iowa.
"] Text[17]=["Distance Education and Technology in Teaching/Learning","William H. Riffee, PhD
Dean
College of Pharmacy
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Dr. Riffee received his BS in Pharmacy from West Virginia University in 1967 and then served as a Clinical Pharmacy Officer with the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in the Division of Hospitals from 1967 until 1970.
He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology- in 1975 from The Ohio State University with a major research interest in behavioral effects and biochemical mechanisms of central nervous system stimulants.
He continued his research and teaching career in the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas from 1975 until May, 1996. During that period, his research interests focused on CNS stimulants and he studied the mechanism by which these agents induce a "reverse tolerance" and thereby elicit the neurochemical basis for "stimulant-induced psychosis".
Since 1990, Dr. Riffee has concentrated his research and teaching efforts in the area of educational technology and its utility in the classroom. He is known nationally an innovator in the area of teaching and the use of television and computer-based presentation technology as well as the use of the computer as a learning tool. He has also been involved in the design and installation of electronic classrooms that incorporate video with computer workstations for student's use. He also chaired the Curriculum Committee of the College of Pharmacy of the University of Texas at Austin which implemented a dramatically new professional pharmacy curriculum in the Fall of 1996.
Since 1975, Dr. Riffee has been funded from the National Institutes of Mental Health and more recently through grants and contracts associated with teaching technology. Over the years, he has received nearly 2 million dollars in funding for his teaching and research efforts.
June 1, 1996, Dr. Riffee was named Dean and Professor, College of Pharmacy, The University of Florida. He continues his interest in educational technology as he pursues his work as an administrative officer of the University. In addition to serving as Dean, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of Shands HealthCare.
"]
Text[18]=["Using Podcast Producer to Manage and Distribute Content (Designed for Health Information Technology professionals)","
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George Cook
National Consulting Engineer
Apple Inc.
George Cook is a National Consulting Engineer for Apple's U.S. Education division. In this capacity he consults with educational institutions developing creative applications for digital media in their curriculum, research, administration and public relations activities. George brings a wealth of experience with and knowledge of digital media authoring, workflow and delivery, with an emphasis on Internet media delivery. His recent areas of focus at Apple include iTunes U, Podcasting, and live media streaming.
George has been with Apple since 1988 and consulted with customers in corporate, pre-press, advertising, design and television. His work experience also includes IT project management at Cornell University and a stint as M.I.S. Director for a $50 million ad agency. George graduated with honors from Syracuse University's Computer Graphics program in 1984.
"] Text[19]=["Accessibility: Options for Digital Media","Miguel YoungMichelle Snyder, Vice President of Marketing and Subscription Sales
Epocrates
Michelle has driven marketing and strategic partnership efforts at Epocrates since its first product launch in 1999. Prior to joining Epocrates, Michelle was a senior manager at the Wilkerson Group (TWG)/IBM, a health care strategy consulting firm focusing on pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, payor/provider and early stage technology companies. Prior to TWG, Michelle worked in the health care policy field as a consultant with The Lewin Group and as a researcher with the Center for Health Policy Studies, Georgetown University. She received her B.S. in psychology and economics from Carleton College and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
Michael Sheehan, MD
Dr. Sheehan is in private practice at North Tampa Psychiatric Associates and serves as Medical Director at Operation PAR, a nonprofit provider of integrated addiction and mental health services in St. Petersburg. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at USF. He is a graduate of University College, Dublin, Ireland and completed training in psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. Board certified in Psychiatry and Addiction psychiatry, he has been principal investigator in a number of areas including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorders and addiction psychopharmacology. He helped in the development of the \"MINI\", the most extensively used computerized Structured Clinical Interview in psychiatry, already translated into 37 languages. He has his own extensive website at msheehan.yourmd.com. He uses MacPractice in his office along with other internet resources for self education and better patient care. He has been an advocate of combining mobile technology and medicine to reduce medical errors and facilitate physician workflow using many platforms since 1984.