Glen Cameron,
PhD Principal Investigator, Dr. Glen T. Cameron, The Maxine Wilson
Gregory Chair in Journalism Research and co-founder of the Health
Communication Research Center in the Missouri School of Journalism,
is internationally recognized for his research, textbooks and
software design. Author of nearly than 300 books, chapters, articles
and convention papers, he has received numerous national awards
for individual research projects as well as the Baskett-Mosse
and Pathfinder awards for his entire body of work.
A recent bibliometric analysis named Cameron
the most published scholar in public relations over the past eight
years and Cameron’s Contingency Theory offers a fresh and
vigorous approach to conflict management in public settings. His
newest book, Public Relations: Management of Competition and Conflict
(forthcoming) focuses on strategic conflict management across
the life cycle of issue management in public relations. Cameron
has extensive experience and proficiency in survey research, experimental
design, content analysis and qualitative techniques such as focus
groups and in-depth interviewing. He lectures frequently around
the world to university and professional audiences.
Cameron's pioneering software development includes
his expert system program, Publics PR Research SoftwareTM, a widely
used targeting research tool in marketing and public relations.
He is a co-author of the best selling Public Relations: Strategies
and Tactics and Essentials of Public Relations, both published
by Allyn & Bacon and adopted at over 250 universities in the
U.S., with translations in Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Lithuanian,
Serbian, and Greek. Cameron serves on the editorial board of eight
scholarly journals. He is the three-time winner of the Institute
for Public Relations SMART Grant for development of innovations
in public relations research.
Cameron is co-principal investigator for an RO1
and a member of the Scientific Leadership Committee within the
Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research, bringing
his expertise on media and strategic communication to address
public health challenges in black communities. At Missouri, Cameron
has contributed to $17M in external funding. His currently funded
research exceeds $1.5M from sources such as NIH, NCI, USDA, CDC,
the U.S Department of Defense, and Monsanto.
Janet Farmer, PhD, ABPP Janet E. Farmer, PhD, ABPP, is a Professor in the Department of
Health Psychology and the Department of Child Health at the University
of Missouri-Columbia. Currently, she directs the Thompson Center
for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, which is an interdisciplinary
initiative that integrates research, service, teaching, and public
policy to improve outcomes for children with special health care
needs and disabilities.
As a child neuropsychologist, Dr. Farmer
has provided direct service to many CSHCN and their families,
and she served for 10 years as the clinical director of the
MCHB/LEND interdisciplinary training grant at the University
of Missouri. Dr. Farmer’s
research investigates medical home interventions designed to
enhance comprehensive and community-based care for children
with chronic health conditions (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, 1998-2002; Missouri Foundation for Health, 2003-2006).
Publications include:
Farmer, J.E., Clark, M.J., Marien, W.E. (2003). Building systems
of care for children with chronic health conditions. Rehabilitation
Psychology. 48(4), 242-249.
Farmer, J.E., Marien, W., & Frasier, L. (2003). Quality
improvements in primary care for children with special health
care needs: Use of a brief screening measure. Children’s
Health Care, 32 (4), 273-285.
Farmer, J.E., Marien, W.E., Clark, M.J.,
Sherman, A., &
Selva, T.J. (2004). Primary care supports for children with chronic
health conditions: Identifying and predicting unmet family needs.
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 29(5), 355-367
Farmer, J.E., Clark, M.J., Sherman, A., Marien, W. E., Selva,
T.J. (2005). Comprehensive primary care for children with special
health care needs in rural areas. Pediatrics, 116, 649-656.
David A. Fleming, MD Dr. Fleming is a general internist and geriatrician with over
twenty five of combined clinical, teaching, and research experience,
having practiced for twenty years in a rural-based community prior
to returning to full time academic medicine in 1995. During his
years in medical practice he developed and directed a large multi-specialty
clinic and a hospital based wellness, cardiac, and pulmonary rehabilitation
center, and was medical director for both long term care facilities
and a home hospice agency.
While Vice-Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University
of Missouri in 1999 and at mid career he was selected for a two-year
bioethics research fellowship at the Center for Clinical Bioethics
at Georgetown University, and participated in research with the
palliative care group at the Lombardi Cancer Center, also at Georgetown.
Dr. Fleming returned to Missouri University School of Medicine
in September 2001 to develop and lead the Center for Health Ethics.
Presently his research interests include end of life issues and
palliative care, the care and treatment of vulnerable populations,
the use of tele-health for remote monitoring, and ethical decision
making. Medical education interests include health ethics and
professionalism, care of the frail elderly, end of life care,
patient rights, disclosure of medical error, genetic testing,
confidentiality, health care access, and sustaining trust in the
healing relationship. These interests extend to health policy,
and into the burgeoning fields of tele-health and medical informatics.
Dr. Fleming is presently the Director of the Center for Health
Ethics in the Department of Health Management and Informatics,
the activities of which encompass the span of clinical, educational
and research interests in health ethics and end-of-life care across
the many disciplines that will be influenced by the Center’s
inception. He is a recent member of the Oversight Body of the
Ethics Force Program of the American Medical Association, and
the Program Committee of the American College of Physicians Foundation.
Dr. Fleming is also Governor of the Missouri Chapter of the American
College of Physicians. He is a former member of the Ethics and
Human Rights Committee of the American College of Physician and
a former Trustee of the American Society of Internal Medicine.
He is a contributing editor for Missouri Medicine and serves on
the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee of the National
Library of Medicine, National Institues of Health. Dr. Fleming
is a graduate of the University of Missouri with a BA in Zoology
in 1970, an MA in Microbiology in 1972, and an M.D. in 1976. He
is completing an MA in Ethics and the Professions at Georgetown
University. Dr. Fleming is board certified in Internal medicine,
having completed residency training in internal medicine at the
University of Missouri in 1979 and chief residency in 1980.
Cynthia Frisby, PhD Cynthia M. Frisby, PhD, teaches Principles of Strategic Communication,
Media Sales, and Media Strategy and Planning. Her research interests
include agenda building, effects of new technologies, history,
and critical/cultural studies. She has built her research program
around her desire to refine and evaluate advertising messages
and to determine their effects on consumers. Her studies not only
help to identify what messages may be most appropriate for specific
audiences but also provide insight into how knowledge, culture,
motivations, perceptions and attitudes about an issue may influence
consumer behavior.
She has completed several nationally recognized research projects,
including those dedicated to helping health organizations develop
communication campaigns for underserved populations. Two other
recent projects explore the sources of American viewers' fascination
with reality T.V. and the effects of idealized images on perceptions
of body esteem among African American women.
She is co-author of Journalism Across Culture. Her articles have
appeared in Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Advertising Research,
and Journal of Current Issues in Current Issues in Advertising
Research. Frisby's enthusiasm for her research is reflected clearly
in the classroom: in 2002 the university awarded her one of its
highest teaching honors, the William T. Kemper Fellowship. Frisby
earned her Ph.D. in 1997 and her M.A. in 1994, both from the University
of Florida's College of Journalism and Mass Communications. She
joined the Missouri School of Journalism faculty in January 1998.
Linda Headrick, MD, MS Linda A. Headrick, M.D., M.S. is Senior Associate Dean for Education
and Faculty Development and Professor of Medicine at the University
of Missouri-Columbia. She joined the University of Missouri in
May 2002 after many years at Case Western Reserve University and
MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Dr. Headrick received
her M.D. from Stanford University and served as Chief Resident
in Medicine at the University of Maryland. She was a visiting
professor to the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth
University, United Kingdom from 1997 to 2003.
Dr. Headrick’s primary research interest is in the application
of continuous quality improvement to health professions education.
She is Associate Editor for Quality and Safety in Health Care
and co-founded the Academy for Healthcare Improvement (www.A4HI.org).
Dr. Headrick will serve as the Academy’s President beginning
in July 2007.
At the University of Missouri-Columbia, Dr. Headrick has responsibility
for the undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education
programs of the School of Medicine and for faculty development
needs in education and scholarly development. She is a Program
Director for the Center for Healthcare Quality, where she continues
work in research and innovation for the improvement of health
care and health professions education.
Lanis L. Hicks, PhD Lanis L. Hicks, PhD, Professor and Director of the Health Services
Management program in the Department of Health Management and
Informatics, University of Missouri, School of Medicine, is a
health economist. Her research interests are rural health, workforce
requirements, and economic evaluations. A component of this research
has been the development of general indicators of physician requirements
and, specifically, detailed analyses of the changing specialty
and geographic distribution of physicians.
She has also focused on evaluating the cost-effectiveness of
technologies in the delivery of health care and been involved
with a multi-disciplinary team identifying and evaluating measures
of quality in nursing homes and the relationship between cost
and quality.
Dr. Hicks has also been involved in a number of international
projects applying the tools of economics to the allocation of
health care resources in those countries. Her current research
interests include continued investigation into the availability
and accessibility of rural health care services and public policies
designed to address these issues. In addition, she continues to
conduct research into the cost-effective delivery of health services
and to identify factors associated with the ability of rural providers
to maintain services in local markets.
In recognition of her contributions,Dr. Hicks was the recipient
of the 1999 National Rural Health Association's Distinguished
Researcher award. She is a member of the National Rural Health
Association, the Missouri Rural Health Association, the American
Public Health Association, the Association for Health Services
Research, the International Health Economics Association, the
International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Research, and the
Southern Economic Association.
Pamela Kelly, MBA Pam Kelly is the Assistant Director for
the Missouri Telehealth Network. She has been with MTN since
June 2005. She is responsible for development and implantation
of the MTN marketing plan, day-to-day operations, credentialing & JCAHO,
as well as, building and maintaining relationships with MUHC
staff and partner sites.
In her previous role as clinical coordinator she assisted patients
in rural communities see specialists at University of Missouri
Health Care via telehealth. She worked closely with the telehealth
site coordinators as well as the nursing and administrative staff
of the specialty clinics to ensure the patient has a successful
visit. She also provides support and education regarding telehealth
for providers and departments within the University of Missouri
Health Care system.
Prior to coming to MTN, she worked for CitiStreet Associates,
LLC, as a Financial Planner. During her position there, she managed
retirement programs for several different hospitals. She also
worked for Boone Hospital Center as a Program Manager in their
Home Health division. During her time there she wrote grants for
eldercare, and RFP's for the Parent Aide Program. Pam received
a "Spoonhead Award" at Boone Hospital for outstanding
leadership amongst all leadership staff. She was featured in the
"People You Should Know" section of the Columbia Business
Times magazine. Pam holds a bachelor in Business Administration
from Columbia College, and a Masters in Business Administration
with an emphasis in Human Resources from William Woods.
She is an adjunct professor at William Woods University teaching
Healthcare Economics in the graduate program.
Amy Lake, MS Amy Lake is a community economist with 10 years of experience
in rural health (community health needs assessment and planning;
participatory research; agricultural health and safety, American
Indian health and regional rural health collaborations). She has
worked with over 25 communities on community-based health projects
in the Midwest addressing both health and local economic development
issues.
Ms. Lake is currently working on a community produced documentary
film in Montgomery County, Missouri through which community members
are exploring and documenting the role of health insurance in
their local health system, economy and history. Her other projects
address the following issues: economic impact of the formal and
informal child care sectors in rural and urban regions of Kansas;
American Indian health system in Kansas City; and the role of
entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy for rural
areas.
From 2001-2004, Ms. Lake was the Community Development and Outreach
Specialist for the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health (University
of Wisconsin Medical School). In this role, Ms. Lake worked with
dozens of rural communities to conduct community health needs
assessments and plan grant projects. She addressed a broad range
of rural health issues including: farmers’ access to health
care; resources available to children with special health care
needs in rural communities; financial viability of Critical Access
Hospitals; and cultural competency in health care delivery.
From 1996-2000, Ms. Lake coordinated a project that involved
11 American Indian Tribal Health Centers across northern Wisconsin
and the University of Wisconsin Medical School. Through this project,
the Tribal health centers explored ways to reduce costs jointly
and improve community health. Some of the pilot projects were
Medicaid outreach, joint contracting for pharmaceutical and lab
supplies, chronic care management, Indian health policy review
and local applications. This project gained national attention
in Indian Country and served as a model project for other states
and groups of American Indian Tribes with similar health concerns.
Ms. Lake’s particular areas of interest are: access to
health care and health care financing; the relationship between
rural health systems and community economics; and cross-cultural
issues in health care.
Ms. Lake received her MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and her BA in
English and Anthropology from Boston University.
Wilbert Meyer Wilbert Meyer is currently Associate Director of the Health Management
and Informatics Group and Clinical Instructor in the Department
of Health Management and Informatics at the University of Missouri.
His experience includes serving in health leadership roles including
hospital administrator, CEO, Director and on the Boards of numerous
organizations that support health care especially rural Missouri.
Mr.. Meyer has served as principal investigator, co investigator,
project manager and consultant on HRSA, MORHPC, DHHSA, and nongovernmental
grants and projects in excess of $2 million in funding. He has
networked and collaborated with numerous community groups throughout
Missouri.
Mr. Meyer earned his bachelors degree from the University of
Missouri, masters degree from Central Michigan University and
is an American College of Healthcare Executives Fellow.
Jeffrey Milyo, PhD Jeffrey Milyo is an associate professor in the department of economics
and the Truman School of Public Affairs. His ongoing research
examining the social determinants of health has been published
in the American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research,
the Journal of Human Resources and the Journal of Health Politics,
Policy and Law; his work on alcohol regulations has been published
in the American Economic Review.
Milyo is currently the principal investigator in a study of the
political determinants of state health policy which is being supported
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Milyo received his Phd
from Stanford University in 1994; he was an assistant professor
at Tufts University and the University of Chicago, prior to joining
the faculty at the University of Missouri. Milyo was also a Robert
Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University,
and held a postdoctoral fellowship in political economics at Harvard
University and MIT.
Rachel Mutrux Rachel Mutrux is the Director for the Missouri Telehealth Network.
She has been with MTN since September 2002.
Rachel is working on a project with the Missouri Department of
Health and Senior Services and the Missouri Primary Care Association
to jointly establish a network for bioattack preparedness and
clinical response. She establishes contact with the hospitals
and clinics included in the grant and works to add them to the
Missouri Telehealth Network. Once the project is complete MTN
will have added approximately 40 new sites across Missouri. She
is also responsible for managing the expansion, quality assurance
and the day-to-day operations of the network.
Rachel is a member of the Governor's Health IT Taskforce Subcommittee
on Telehealth. She has attended national telehealth meetings for
the last two years and is aware of the different aspects of clinical,
regulatory, legislative, and technological issues surrounding
telehealth.
Prior to coming to MTN, she worked at the University of Missouri
Student Health Center. She also has a bachelors in biology from
the University of Missouri and is currently working on a masters
degree.
Philip G. Peters, Jr., JD Professor Peters is the Ruth L. Hulston
Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia School
of Law. His specialty is health law and he teaches courses in
Health Care Law & Policy,
Torts. Bioethics, and The Law of Human Genetics. On campus, he
was the founding Director of the UMC Biotechnology & Society
Program, an interdisciplinary initiative assembled to study the
social and legal implications of modern genetic technology. In
the community, he is the immediate-past President of the Board
of Directors of the Family Health Center, a community health
center whose doors are open to everyone regardless of ability
to pay.
His scholarship ranges across the field of health
law, including medical malpractice, the withholding of life
support, the tension between cost control and disability rights,
and the regulation of reproductive technology.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Reproductive Technology
HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH? OBLIGATIONS TO THE CHILDREN OF REPRODUCTIVE
TECHNOLOGY (Oxford University Press, 2004).
“Obligations to Future Persons,” ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF BIOETHICS (3rd edition, 2003).
The Ambiguous Meaning of Human Conception, 40 UC DAVIS L.
REV. 199 (2006).
Harming Future Persons: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive
Technology, 8 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW JOURNAL
365 (1999). Reprinted in LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(Bonnie Steinbock ed., Ashgate, 2002)
Medical Malpractice
Doctors and Juries, MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2007).
Fairness and Medical Malpractice Settlements, IOWA LAW REVIEW
(forthcoming 2007).
Unwarranted Variations in the Quality of Health Care: Can
the Law Help Medicine Provide a Remedy/Remedies?, 37 WAKE FOREST
LAW REVIEW (2002) (with John E. Wennberg, M.D.).
The Role of the Jury in Modern Malpractice Law, 87 IOWA LAW
REVIEW 909 (2002).
The Quiet Demise of Deference to Custom: Malpractice Law
at the Millennium, 57 WASHINGTON & LEE LAW REVIEW 163 (2000).
End of Life Care & Rationing
The Illusion of Autonomy at the End of Life: Unconsented
Life Support and the Wrongful Life Analogy, 45 UCLA LAW REVIEW
673 (1998).
When Physicians Balk at Futile Care: Implications of the
Disability Rights Laws, 90 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
798 (1997).
For more information about Professor Peters or his courses, visit
his home page at www.law.missouri.edu/peters.
Marilyn Rantz, PhD, RN, FAAN Marilyn Rantz is a Professor of Nursing who has been affiliated
with the MU Sinclair School of Nursing since 1999. She holds the
named position of University Hospital Professor of Nursing, and
has an appointment as Professor in the Department of Family and
Community Medicine in the MU School of Medicine. Dr. Rantz received
her PhD in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
where her studies focused on long-term care policy, health policy,
public program evaluation, and chronically confused nursing home
residents.
Her published works include over 100 articles and book chapters
on topics including quality improvement, health policy, quality
measurement, nursing management, productivity analysis, and care
of the elderly. She has authored several books, including three
which earned AJN Book of the Year awards in 1991, 1998, and 2001.
The texts Using MDS Quality Indicators to Improve Outcomes and
Outcome-Based Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care: Using MDS,
Process, and Outcome Measures (AJN award), were published by Aspen
Publishing to help quality improvement teams in nursing homes
evaluate and improve care. A book to help consumers, The New Nursing
Homes: A 20-minute Way to Find Great Long Term Care (AJN award,
Sigma Theta Tau International’s Research Dissemination to
the Public Award), was published in 2001 by Fairview Press.
A leader in the area of long-term care research, Dr. Rantz is
currently serving as the Principal Investigator for “Multilevel
Interventions to Improve Nursing Home Outcomes.” This 2005
National Institutes of Health award was the largest ever given
to a researcher at the Sinclair School of Nursing. In her role
as Associate Director for the MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging,
she is also serving as Principal Investigator for “Building
Interdisciplinary Geriatric Health Care Research Centers,”
which was recently funded through the Hartford Foundation.
Two other programs of research, one funded through the National
Science Foundation, and the other through the Administration on
Aging, focus on the use of different types of technology, such
as motion sensors, to provide assistance to elders who wish to
remain in their own homes. Much of this research is being conducted
at TigerPlace, an assisted living facility that is a joint venture
between the Sinclair School of Nursing and the Americare Corporation.
Dr. Rantz was part of the School of Nursing team who worked on
the original design for TigerPlace, and today is the School’s
Director for the facility. TigerPlace provides both an independent
living environment for the area’s seniors and an opportunity
for students from a variety of professional areas to interact
with older adults.
Her professional contributions have been recognized numerous
times, at both the local and national levels. In 2005, Dr. Rantz
received both the MU Sinclair School of Nursing Faculty Award
for Excellence in Research and the National Gerontological Nursing
Association Lifetime Achievement Award. This year, she was awarded
the MU Alumni Association Faculty Alumni Award for her outstanding
contributions to her profession, the community, and the University
of Missouri.
Bret Sanders, MPA Bret Sanders serves as a policy analyst
in the Institute of Public Policy at the Truman School of Public
Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia. He earned a bachelor's
degree in education and a master's in public administration from
the University of Missouri, Columbia. Bret managed databases
for the Institute, data collection and verification, online web
surveys, and statistical analysis. His web programming expertise
includes asp, asp.net, JavaScript and html programming languages.
Bret also conducted spatial analysis using geographic information
systems employing ESRIs GIS software packages. Bret’s research
areas include using Geographic Information Systems to aid in
public policy decision making and health-related policy issues.
Bret plans to pursue a career in medicine and will be joining
the 2007 entering class at the University Of Missouri School Of
Medicine.
Laura Schopp, PhD, ABPP Laura H. Schopp, PhD, is an associate professor, in the department
of health psychology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Her areas of research include Telehealth, peer-to-peer networking
and spinal cord and traumatic brain injury patients.
Schopp received her BA from St. Louis University in Psychology
and Philosophy, her MA and PhD from University of Missouri Columbia
in Clinical Psychology. She was a NIH Rehabilitation Research
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri, and also a
National Library of Medicine Fellow in Health Informatics Research
from 2000-2003.
David Valentine, PhD Dr. David Valentine earned his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science
from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D.
from the University of Missouri. He taught at St. Louis University
and the University of Arkansas-Monticello prior to serving as
a member of the research staff. He served as the Director of the
Division of Research for the Senate for 16 years.
Dr. Valentine is an Associate Research Professor at the Truman
School of Public Affairs, Institute of Public Policy. He directs
the Missouri Legislative Academy, a UM project, supervises the
activities of the Institute, and serves as the principal investigator
on grants and contracts, including health related grants and contracts.
Douglas Wakefield, PhD Since 2005 Dr. Douglas S. Wakefield is the
Director of the University of Missouri Center for Health Care
Quality, and professor in the Department of Health Management
and Informatics. He previously served as Professor and Head of
the University of Iowa Department of Health Management and Policy
form 1996 - 2005. His research interests are in patient care
quality, safety and value improvement. Dr. Wakefield’s
research has been funded from a variety of sources including,
AHRQ, HRSA, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation,
John Deere Health Foundation, and the Veterans Administration.
Recently funded research includes grants from AHRQ Johnson Foundation
grant to improve end-of-life care in Iowa, a CDC funded grant
to evaluating the effect of health information technology implementations
on hospital staff work life, and patient care quality and safety.
Weldon Webb, MS Webb retired as Associate Vice Chancellor in 2002 after serving
the School of Medicine and MU Health Care for 32 years. He helped
lead its efforts to deliver rural health care, promote training
for rural physicians, and develop the Missouri Teleheath Network.
He has served as principal investigator on several HRSA and NLM
grants in excess of $7 million in funding.
Webb agreed to return to the School of Medicine in a part-time
role and currently works to maintain and extend the SOM's commitment
to rural health care as the Director of Rural Programs.
Weldon D. Webb earned his bachelors and masters degrees from
the University of Missouri.