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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 101-108

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From page 101...
... She is coeditor and contributing author to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Plain Language Pediatrics guidebook and has publications on implementing health literacy–based interventions, fostering pediatric health literacy, and partnering with patients and adult learners. Through Reach Out and Read, she links health literacy to promoting early literacy and school readiness.
From page 102...
... His research has been presented in numerous journal articles and at the International Stroke Symposium, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, International Health Literacy Researcher Conference, and numerous venues in his home state of North Carolina. Lori Hall, R.N., is a health education consultant with Eli Lilly and Company, with almost 30 years of health care experience, including direct patient care as well as experience in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries.
From page 103...
... Led by her efforts, UHP has grown from a one-site facility to a network of federally qualified community health centers that includes eight sites, eight school health programs, three part-time sites at facilities for atrisk populations, two large Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children sites, and multiple other grant-funded programs, serving 54,000 individual patients in 2012 through 320,000 visits.
From page 104...
... Recent projects include developing a health literacy curriculum for computer training classes taught in Spanish for the Zufall Community Health Center, the Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs, and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine–New England Region and conducting an implementation and evaluation project to increase access to reliable health information via the Internet among older adults in rural Maine. She is coauthor of Building a Health Literate Organization: A Guidebook to Achieving Organizational Change (in press)
From page 105...
... She was the collaborative director for Carolinas HealthCare System's QI-based health literacy initiative for 24 facilities across the third largest nonprofit health care system in the United States. She is currently an adviser for the next phase of this project, an initiative to educate 10,000 nurses across two states in health literacy strategies.
From page 106...
... Her accomplishments include the development of an online educational module titled "Health Literacy: Partnering for PatientCentered Care." She received second place in the champion category of the Leonard G Doak Health Literacy Innovator Award for demonstration of commitment to excellence in health literacy within an organization.
From page 107...
... in health communication at UNM. Karen Rogers, M.S.N., R.N.-B.C., is the director of the Western Maine Area Health Education Center and the director of education of the Franklin Community Health Network at Franklin Memorial Hospital in ­ armington, Maine.
From page 108...
... Currently, Dr. Yin is principal investigator of a newly awarded multi­ site research grant to develop and evaluate a low-literacy medication labeling and dosing strategy for pediatric prescription liquid medications, as well as co–principal investigator of a multisite research grant to develop and test a low-literacy and numeracy-focused intervention for early childhood obesity prevention; both grants are funded by National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Development.


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