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America’s Emerging Health Care Crisis
Speaker Bios
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Glen T. Cameron, Ph.D.
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HCRC Co-Director and Scientific Advisor
• Phone: (573) 884-2607
• Fax: (573) 882-4823
• E-mail: camerong@missouri.edu
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Glen T. Cameron is the co-director and scientific advisor of the Health Communication Research Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has received many academic awards and honors, including in 1998 being named Professor and Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In bibliometric analyses of journalism and mass communication scholarship, he is cited as the most published researcher nationally in major refereed journals over the past five years. In 1996, he received the Pathfinder Award for Career Research Contributions from the Institute for Public Relations Research & Education.
Cameron's research includes studies of public relations and news production, information processing of news and commercials, and print media advertising, and he is co-author of the leading introductory text to public relations, Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics, published by Allyn & Bacon, now in its seventh edition. His direction of research projects for Center for Advanced Social Research (CASR) clients has included 40,000 health-related phone interviews covering topics such as alcohol abuse, tobacco use, and child well-being.
Other notable scholarly accomplishments include several additional textbooks as well as the development of the contingency theory of conflict in public relations. He also worked to develop Publics PR Research Software™, a program widely used in marketing and public relations research, and founded Empiricom, a research enterprise of the Missouri School of Journalism focusing on new media as a tool for journalism and mass communication.
His duties in the Center include working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to better understand the critical role of mass communication, particularly public relations, in health care. He also provides expert scientific guidance and leadership to HCRC projects, pilot projects, and staff, acting as a resource to the scientific community. He also provides assistance to project leaders for mentoring and training junior faculty and graduate students. In addition, Cameron works to encourage investigators from relevant disciplines to study cancer communication as part of interdisciplinary teams and increase the number of peer-reviewed publications in the area of communication processes. His expertise in journalism, public relations, and advertising enables him to focus on written, visual, and oral communication issues in his Center advisory role.
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Rear Admiral Steven Galson, MD
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Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
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RADM Steven Galson joined FDA in April 2001 as the Deputy Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and is currently the Acting Center Director. Dr. Galson provides leadership for the Center’s broad national and international programs in pharmaceutical regulation. RADM Galson began his PHS career as an epidemiological investigator at the Centers for Disease Control and has held senior-level positions at the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to his arrival at FDA, RADM Galson was the Director of the Office of Science Coordination and Policy, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, at the EPA. RADM Galson is the recipient of numerous PHS awards, most recently the Outstanding Service Medal for his leadership and management of CDER while serving as Acting Center Director from November 2001 to February 2002. RADM Galson holds a B.S. from Stony Brook University, an M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine & Public Health and Occupational Medicine.
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Geneva Overholser
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Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, MU School of Journalism
• Phone: (202) 237-5939
• E-mail: overholserg@missouri.edu
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Geneva Overholser covered city hall and state legislature for the Colorado Springs Sun and spent five years freelancing from Africa and Europe before joining the editorial page at the Des Moines Register, joining the editorial board of The New York Times and becoming editor of Des Moines Register, ombudsman at The Washington Post and a syndicated columnist with Washington Post Writers Group. Overholser joined the Missouri School of Journalism in September 2000. She has been a regular media commentator, CJR columnist, former congressional fellow, Nieman fellow, chair of Pulitzer Prize Board and an officer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She serves on boards of Knight Fellowships at Stanford and Stanley Foundation and advisory boards of Committee of Concerned Journalists, Knight Foundation, Fund for Independence in Journalism and Aspen Institute Global Interdependence Initiative.
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Jerry C. Parker, Ph.D.
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Director of the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center
• Phone: (573) 814-6550
• E-mail: parkerjc@health.missouri.edu
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Jerry C. Parker, Ph.D., is a clinical professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the MU School of Medicine and the director of the Behavioral Health Service Line at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital. Parker is the director of Research Projects and principal investigator for the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MARRTC).
He has served as a member of the National Advisory Board for Arthritis and Musculorskeletal Diseases, and he is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Health Psychology). Parker has been awarded the Arthritis Health Professions Association (AHPA) Merit Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the Outstanding VA Research Psychologist Award from (APA Psychologists in Public Service), and the Outstanding VA Administrator Psychologist Award (APA Psychologists in Public Service).
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Captain Joe Sniezek, MD, MPH
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U.S. Public Health Service Chief, Arthritis Program National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Phone: (770) 488-5596
• E-mail: jes6@cdc.gov
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Dr. Joe Sniezek received his BA from Culver Stockton College and his medical and public health degrees from the University of Illinois. He trained in preventive medicine at the University of Illinois. He served two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer from the CDC, assigned to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Morgantown, W.V., and Atlanta.
Following Epidemic Intelligence Service training, Sniezek worked in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control for 11 years addressing injury surveillance and working with states to develop injury control and surveillance programs. His team at the injury center was responsible for developing surveillance activities for traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.
Sniezek has served as the Chief of the Arthritis Program, Health Care and Aging Studies Branch, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion since April of 1999. He manages a multi-disciplinary team, working to develop and implement public health approaches to improve the quality of life among persons affected by arthritis.
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