Research Matters Communications Workshop
Promoting Basic Research in a New Age of Communications
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Join Research!America and Debra Lappin of FaegreBD Consulting for a workshop enabling early career scientists to effectively communicate the importance of biomedical research to the media and policymakers. Attendees will have Q&A opportunities with science, health and health policy reporters, current and former congressional staffers and top Elsevier editors, in addition to attending a plenary session and meetings on Capitol Hill.
The plenary session speaker is Christie Nicholson, lecturer at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.
Moderators for the workshop are Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, and Debra Lappin, JD, principal, FaegreBD Consulting and Research!America Board member.
Panelists include:
- Cara Altimus, PhD, executive board member, Johns Hopkins Postdoc Association
- Nick Bath, JD, senior health policy advisor, Senate HELP Committee
- Patrick Carroll, legislative director, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS)
- Susan Heavey, correspondent, Reuters
- Patricia Knight, founder, Knight Capitol Consultants, LLC; former chief of staff, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
- Jonathan Moreno, PhD, editor-in-chief, Science Progress blog; senior fellow, Center for American Progress
- Nancy Shute, health and medicine reporter, NPR
- Dan Smith, JD, principal, The Sheridan Group; founder and former president of the
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
Start Date: 09-October-2013
Start Time: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Location:
George Washington University Marvin Center, 800 21st St. NW Washington, D.C.
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