Judges

The following professionals served as judges for the World Wide Web Health Awards program. Please do not contact the judges directly for questions related to the awards program. You can address general awards program questions to info@healthawards.com.

Lori Buffum is website writer/editor
at Texas Heart Institute in Houston. She previously worked in marketing/corporate communications for engineering companies and in academic settings both as staff member and instructor. She is an active member of both AMWA (American Medical Writers Association) and STC (Society for Technical Communication). With a lifelong interest in alternative medicine and having completed a certificate in therapeutic herbalism, she's had more of a professional exposure to the "medical communications" field than people in other careers. Her current job involves working with website content that runs the gamut from informational topics for the lay public (Heart Information Center) to continuing medical education courses for cardiovascular disease (CME) to our new resource for secondary school teachers (Project Heart).

Liz Conway serves as Marketing Director for Accelerated Community Oncology Research Network (ACORN) and its affiliated company, Supportive Oncology Services (SOS). Both firms seek to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of cancer patients, while improving the efficiency and productivity of cancer clinics through research services and advanced technology. Earlier this year, Liz and her team launched www.UnderstandingCancer.tv for oncology patients and their caregivers. The site utilizes resources initially developed for the Cancer Support Network which reaches over ½ million cancer patients annually in physician offices. Liz formerly served as Marketing Services Director for CancerConsultants.com, a web-based information company that developed websites and resources for cancer patients and oncology practices. Since 1999, websites developed by Liz and her teams have consistently won top awards of excellence. Liz has previously judged the World Wide Health Awards as well as other competitions.

Katrina Griffin manages the eBusiness initiatives for Methodist Medical Center of Illinois. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Marketing from Bradley University in Peoria, IL. She is currently pursuing a MBA degree with emphasis in eBusiness and Information Technology. She began her career in web development eight years ago at the University of Illinois. Later she developed public health web sites for the State of California and ran a small web shop and independent film company. In addition, Katrina is an active member of her community through organizations such as the Junior League of Peoria, Young Professionals Organization, Peoria Impact, Peoria Art Guild, and the Catholic Diocese of Peoria. She enjoys networking, learning new things, helping people, and enjoying life with friends and family.

Heather C. Guidone is a professional writer with a primary interest in women's and reproductive health concerns, serving the clinical and consumer health industries for over fifteen years. She is also the Program Director for the internationally acclaimed Center for Endometriosis Care, a prestigious specialty treatment center based in Atlanta, GA that serves patients from around the world.

She is also a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Endometriosis Research Center, an international 501(c)3 non-profit foundation. Heather also serves as a professional consultant to, and has worked on behalf of, many of the world's leading biotech, clinical research and health care marketing firms, developing original content on a myriad of topics ranging from CME and health practitioner education materials, speaker content, marketing materials, newsletters, website content, substantive edits, slides and graphics, proof of concept efforts, book reviews and critiques, sales sheets, press releases, branding development, monographs, white papers, training materials, investigational case studies and more. She holds dual certifications in medical technologies and health education and is a member of the American Medical Writer's Association, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the international PAX Society, the World Endometriosis Society and the World Endometriosis Research Foundation. She has been included in the 20th edition of "Who's Who Among American Women" and is a former member of OBGYN.net's Women & Patients Advisory Board, as well as the previous Managing Editor of OBGYN.net's EndoZONE and Endometriosis Pavilion portals.

Desiree Hayes is Executive Director of Eastside Community Practice in Gainesville, FL. Desiree has a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Community Health.

Greg Klitz is Manager, Web Development of Loyola University Health Systems. In this position he is responsible for designing and maintaining the Web sites for the Loyola University Health System (LUHS), the LUHS Intranet, the Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM), and the Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN). These responsibilities extended to cover the design and maintenance of any other hospitals or institutions that become a part of the Loyola University Health System in the future. In addition he supports and coordinates the efforts of webmasters at the department, division, institute and student organization levels. Mr. Klitz joined Loyola University Medical Center in 1995, as a medical illustrator of Media Design & Development. He joined the department of Medical Center Information Systems in 1997 as a Programmer Analyst. Mr. Klitz received a Masters in Associated Medical Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.F.A from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He has received several awards in web site design.

Lisa Maurer is the coordinator of The Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services, and a Lecturer in the Sociology department, at Ithaca
College. She designed a nationally recognized tobacco cessation / prevention program geared to sexual minority college students, as well as several award winning websites. She also serves as a consultant on a variety of themes, including disability issues, global health issues, and diversity and multiculturalism. In addition, she has
taught college courses on issues of health at the graduate and undergraduate levels of several institutions. Before working in higher education, she had numerous years of experience in health-related fields in a variety of settings including working with young people and families, with individuals with disabilities, and with communities of faith.

Dave Messer is President and Founder of Net Services by Design, an Alaska native owned corporation. "Design. Build.
Attract." is their mission motto for building your Internet presence through
technology, innovation, and imagination. His corporation is the founder of EZSiteTool - an easy to use Website development and marketing tool for business owners who either want to create or enhance their online branding.

For over sixteen years, Dave held senior IT and management positions at
Inter@ctive Week's 500, Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies. He led e-CRM
and IT design programs for B2C and B2B relationships with financial industry
giants and served a key role in the launch and management of a leading
animal health services portal across all seven AOL properties. Mr. Messer
was inducted into the 2003 International WHO's WHO of Entrepreneurs and
has managed patient and physician Web portals for a leading food
allergy testing laboratory.

Robert Moore is Executive Director, State & Federal Accounts for Group
Health Cooperative in Seattle, Washington, and handles sales and
strategic planning for state and federal employee accounts. His background includes print journalism, critical care and research nursing, and health planning and policy. He keeps an eye on
communication trends in the postmodern, post-literate world—and believes that successful organizations will increasingly be driven by communication that slices through layers of cultural boredom and
bureaucracy.

Eileen O’Brien, Director of Online Promotions, has 13 years of online marketing experience, Eileen serves as Director of Online Promotions department for Compass Healthcare Communications. The Online Promotions group identifies, develops and executes all the online promotions for the agency’s clients. These include online media strategy and execution, search marketing, social media initiatives, and all agency analytics and reporting.

Prior to joining Compass, Eileen was Director of Interactive Media at Engel Publishing Partners, a leading business-to-business publisher in the pharmaceutical vertical who produce Med Ad News. Previously she was Director of eMarketing at Virtua Health, and worked at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Graduate Hospital and the Rothman Institute. Prior to that, she worked in Sydney, Australia and London, England.

Eileen received an AB in History from Brown University and MS in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Susan Reid is a 25-plus year veteran in advertising and marketing, and has been the Internet Marketing Manager for UAB Health System for 8 years. During that period the Web site has experienced phenomenal growth of content and visitors and has received numerous national awards, including the World Wide Web Award.

Reid was instrumental in developing video content and interactive CD-ROMs for UAB Health System, and has presided over two major site overhauls. She is currently responsible for the online marketing and Web 2.0 strategies for UABHS as well as managing its current site.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from Old Dominion University and began her advertising career with The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Prior to joining UAB, she was co-owner of Creative Directions, a corporate communications and marketing firm where she produced award-winning marketing videos for corporations throughout the Southeast.

M. Katherine Reller is the CEO of Reller Consulting, a clinical and process excellence consulting firm in Rochester, Minnesota. Katherine holds a bachelors degree from Winona State University in Nursing, and a Masters degree in Nursing Administration. Katherine is a senior member of the Baldrige National Quality Program Board of Examiners and has served from 2003 to 2008. In addition, Katherine is active on the Board of Evaluators in the Minnesota State Quality Award. As a nurse, trained facilitator, and quality expert Katherine is also active with the American Society for Quality as a Senior Member, and holds a certificate from ASQ as a Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence CMQ/OE. Katherine is also Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) the highest accredited certification in quality for healthcare professionals.

R. Terry Russell, Ph.D. is currently a Professor in the Graduate Program in Health Services Administration, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL. His Ph.D. degree is from The Ohio State University (Education - Foundations/Adult Education), and MHA degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Mr. Russell has held administrative positions in acute care hospitals, health care systems, and in long-term care facilities/continuing care retirement communities.

Yoan C. Talagrand is Web Communication Specialist with Medtronic in Switzerland.

Brian Tencza is a Team Lead for the Environmental Medicine Educational
Services Branch in the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine
in the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in Atlanta, Georgia. Brian's team develops educational materials for clinicians and communication materials for the general public regarding environmental health. At ATSDR Brian leads projects including
videotaped instruction, satellite instruction, web-based training (WBT),
on-line testing, and interactive software tutorials. Before his work at ATSDR Brian worked at the CDC developing projects such as a web site dedicated to teaching future public health practitioners the basics of sexually transmitted diseases and a series of three broadcasts dealing
with SARS. Brian brings to the CDC 20 years of experience as a manager
and instructional designer in industries ranging from social services to nuclear energy.

Ron Wozny is Director of Marketing Programs for T-System in Dallas, the nation’s largest provider of emergency department (ED) clinical documentation solutions. Previously, he was Director of Product Strategies and Marketing at Healthvision, managing the overall content, design and daily publication of the consumer health information product, development of health information goals and strategies, and privacy and editorial quality initiatives. He also served for more than five years at VHA Inc., a nationwide network of not-for-profit hospitals. Under his leadership as Director, Consumer Web Strategies for the LaurusHealth program, VHA was among the first 13 organizations to earn the URAC Health Web Site Accreditation in December 2001. Wozny holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and an MBA in marketing with honors from Regis University in Denver.