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Sunday, June
23
12:00
pm Registration and lunch
1:00 pm Introduction: The Challenge of
Interpreting Medical Research for the
Public. Dr. Barnett Kramer and
staff, NIH Office of Medical
Applications of Research. Overview and
housekeeping.
1:45 pm Medical News: What Does
Current Coverage Look Like? What
does the public need, and are they
getting it? How does science become
news? Includes an interactive
discussion among participants as well
as presentation of current research on
health journalism. Sharon Steinberg,
NIH; Robert Logan, University of
Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism;
Larry Thompson, National Human Genome
Research Institute.
3:45 pm Break
4 pm
Accumulating the Evidence: Taking the
Researcher's Perspective. An
interactive session on designing a
study. Dr. Mark Zweig, National Cancer
Institute.
5:45 pm Dinner with speaker. Dr.
Barron Lerner, Columbia U. Author of
The Breast Cancer Wars.
7:30 pm Discussion: What are issues
faced by journalists in getting the
story to the public? Facilitated by
Dr. Robert Logan, University of
Missouri
Monday, June
24
8:00
am Breakfast
8:30
am Levels of Evidence among Clinical
Studies. What are the pros and cons
of different clinical study designs for
answering a given research question?
Looking at study results with a
critical eye. Dr. Steven Woolf, Medical
College of Virginia.
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Cancer Screening: The Clash of
Evidence and Intuition. A closer
look at what we think we know about
early detection of disease. Dr. Barnett
Kramer.
12:00 am Lunch and free
time
2:00
pm Reporting Health Risks and Medical
Statistics: A Practical Guide. What
do different risk numbers mean, and how
are they most usefully presented? Drs.
Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin, VA
Medical Center, White River Junction,
VT.
5:15 pm Dinner with speaker. Dr.
Leon Gordis, Johns Hopkins
University.
7:30
pm Lecture: Development of the HIV
Vaccine. Dr. Barney Graham,
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases.
Tuesday,
June 25
8:00
am Breakfast
8:30
am Reporting on a Study, Part I. A
hands-on exercise (in small groups) to
develop a press release into the bones
of a story, assisted by symposium
faculty.
10:00
am Break
10:15
am Reporting on a Study, Part II.
Presentation of results from first
session and large-group discussion with
a panel of experts. Panelists: Gina
Kolata, New York Times; Joe
Palca, National Public Radio; Melinda
Voss, Association of Health Care
Journalists; Bob Meyers, National Press
Foundation.
12:00 am Lunch and free time
2:00 pm Adding Context and Perspective.
Presentation and analysis of
medical news articles by their authors.
Gina Kolata, Joe Palca.
4:30
pm Tying it all together: writing the
story and then selling it.
Katherine Arnold, News Editor,
Journal of the National Cancer
Institute.
5:30 pm- Optional, informal dinner
(on your own) with symposium faculty
and staff in downtown Bethesda.
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Symposium faculty and speakers
Katherine
Arnold is the news editor of the
Journal of the National Cancer
Institute. She is responsible for
developing ideas and commissioning
articles for the News section of the
Journal, as well as editing all news
stories and overseeing the final
production of the News. She also oversees
media relations for the Journal. She has
worked as a newspaper reporter, a medical
writer, and a public affairs specialist.
She completed her graduate work in science
and technology journalism at Texas A&M
University.
Leon
Gordis, MD, DrPH, is Professor of
Epidemiology and Pediatrics at the Johns
Hopkins University. His major research
interests are the epidemiology of
childhood diseases, cancer epidemiology,
the use of epidemiology in evaluating
health services, and the relation of
epidemiology to public policy. A second
edition of his textbook,
Epidemiology, appeared in May 2000.
He has taught epidemiology to Federal and
State judges and co-authored the chapter
on Epidemiology in the Reference Manual on
Scientific Evidence, which was published
for Judges by the Federal Judicial Center.
Dr. Gordis chaired the NIH Consensus Panel
on Mammography for Women Ages 40-49, and
has received the Abraham Lilienfeld Award
for outstanding contributions to the
Teaching of Epidemiology from the American
Public Health Association.
Barney
S. Graham, MD, PhD, is a Senior
Investigator in the Vaccine Research
Center at NIH and is Chief of the Viral
Pathogenesis Laboratory and Clinical
Trails Core. Prior to joining the NIH, he
was a Professor in the Departments of
Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
at Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine. He studies basic aspects of the
immune response to virus infections, and
has been involved in the clinical
evaluation of candidate HIV vaccines for
15 years.
Gina Kolata is a science reporter
for the New York Times, where she
has worked since 1987. Before that, she
was a senior writer for Science
magazine. She has a master's degree in
applied mathematics, an undergraduate
degree in microbiology, and she studied
molecular biology on the graduate level.
She has written four books, including
Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path
Ahead, and Flu: The Story of the
Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the
Search for the Virus that Caused
It.
Barnett
S. Kramer, MD, MPH, is the Director of
the Office of Medical Applications of
Research at the National Institutes of
Health and Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of the National Cancer
Institute. He also holds positions
with the National Cancer Institute and the
Department of Medicine of the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences
in Bethesda. Dr. Kramer has extensive
experience in cancer treatment studies,
primary prevention studies, and clinical
screening trials of lung, ovarian, breast
and prostate cancers. He received his
medical training at the University of
Maryland and Barnes Hospital in St. Louis,
Missouri, and a masters
degree
in public health from the Johns Hopkins
University School of Hygiene and Public
Health.
Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, is the
Angelica Berrie-Gold Foundation Associate
Professor of Medicine at the Columbia
College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr.
Lerner received his M.D. from Columbia and
his Ph.D. in history from the University
of Washington. His second book, The
Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the
Pursuit of a Cure in 20th Century
America, was published by Oxford
University Press in May 2001. Dr. Lerner
has published extensively in scholarly
journals as well as The Washington
Post and The Boston Globe. He
also practices internal medicine and
teaches medical ethics.
Robert
Logan, PhD, is a professor, associate
dean and director of the Science
Journalism Center at the University of
Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism.
Dr. Logan has published more than 35
articles in scholarly journals and
magazines and is the author of Social
Responsibility in Science News: Four Case
Studies (Washington: The Media
Institute, 1997) and Environmental
Issues for the 1990s: A Handbook for
Journalists (Washington: The Media
Institute, 1995). Dr. Logan is a member of
the editorial boards of the Journal of
Mass Media Ethics and Mass Comm Review .
He is on the New York Times' college
advisory board, and science communication
boards established by the U.S. Department
of Energy and Vanderbilt
University.
Bob
Meyers is president of the National
Press Foundation, one of the oldest
professional development organizations in
the country. He has also been director of
the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for
Advanced Studies in Public Health (1989
&endash;1993), a reporter for The
Washington Post and Specialist Editor
at The San Diego Union. He is the
author of two books with health-related
themes. He is a member of the Fellowship
Advisory Board of the Rosalynn Carter
Fellowships for Mental Health
Journalism.
Joe Palca is a senior science
correspondent for National Public Radio.
Prior to joining NPR in 1992, he was a
news writer for journals Science and
Nature. He comes to journalism from a
science background, having received a
Ph.D. in psychology from the University of
California at Santa Cruz where he worked
on human sleep physiology. Palca is past
president of the National Association of
Science Writers
Lisa Schwartz, MD, and Steven Woloshin,
MD, are general internists at the
White River Junction (Vermont) Veterans
Administration Hospital and assistant
professors at of Medicine and Community
and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical
School. They are the interim co-editors of
Effective Clinical Practice, a new
MEDLINE journal published by the American
College of Physicians. Their work focuses
on improving the communication of medical
data to patients, physician and the
public.
Larry Thompson is the chief of the
Communications and Public Liaison Branch
of the National Human Genome Research
Institute. He is the co-founding editor of
The Washington Post Health section,
founding editor of The San Jose Mercury
News Science and Medicine section, and
was the first medical editor of The
Call-Chronicle Newspapers in
Allentown, Pennsylvania. Thompson wrote
Correcting the Code: Inventing the Cure
for the Human Body, a book, published
by Simon and Shuster, about the first
human gene therapy experiments at NIH. His
broadcast experience includes stints on
PBS and Medical News Network.
Thompson entered federal service when he
joined the FDA team seeking to regulate
tobacco products. He has graduate degrees
in molecular biology and in film and
digital media.
Craig
W. Trumbo, PhD, is an Associate
Professor in the University of
Missouri School of Journalism. He earned
his doctorate in Mass Communication from
the University of Wisconsin (1997) and
concentrates his research and teaching in
the areas of health, risk, and
environmental communication. His major
on-going project, under continuing support
from the National Science Foundation,
looks at how state health departments
communicate epidemiologic information to
the public during the investigation of
suspected cancer clusters.
Melinda Voss has been the executive
director of the Association of Health Care
Journalists, a group dedicated to
improving news coverage of health and
health care, since 1999. Previously, Voss
was a staff writer at The Des Moines
Register for nearly 26 years. Her 1990
series, "Gay Iowa: The Untold Story," was
nominated for a Pulitzer. Voss, who has a
master's degree in public health, also
teaches journalism at the University of
Minnesota and freelances.
Steven
H. Woolf, MD, MPH, is Professor and
Director of Research at the
Department of Family Practice at Virginia
Commonwealth University, and was
recently elected to the Institute of
Medicine. He received his medical training
from Emory University and Virginia
Commonwealth University. Dr. Woolf is also
a clinical epidemiologist and underwent
training in preventive medicine and public
health at Johns Hopkins University, where
he received his M.P.H. He is a member of
the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
and has been a coeditor of its report, the
Guide to Clinical Preventive Services. Dr.
Woolf's career has focused on
evidence-based medicine, with a special
focus on preventive medicine, the
principles of shared decision-making,
and
systematic evaluation of the benefits and
harms of screening tests.
Mark H.
Zweig, MD, now Division of Cancer
Prevention at the National Cancer
Institute, was Assistant Chief of the
Clinical Chemistry Service in the Clinical
Pathology Department of the Clinical
Center at the National Institutes of
Health from 1977-1996. His research has
ranged from basic neurochemistry to
clinical investigations of cardiac and
cancer markers in patient care. An expert
on using Receiver Operating Characteristic
(ROC) analysis to evaluate the diagnostic
accuracy of laboratory procedures, he
chaired a subcommittee for the National
Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards that developed and published a
guideline on the use of ROC plots.
Currently, Dr. Zweig is interested in the
public's understanding of disease
prevention and risk management.
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