Panel Discussions

Health and Information Access: The Challenges
Health and Information Access: The Solutions

Panel Speakers

Marc Babitz
Robert McKnight
Jim Bush
Susan McCabe
Lesley Boughton
Rex Gantenbein

Speakers

Caring for the Patient who is Not in the Room

Marc Babitz

Keynote Speaker: Sunday October 5th 9 - 10:30 AM
Panel Discussion Speaker: Sunday, October 5th, 3:30 - 5 PM

Dr. Marc Babitiz, MD, serves as the Director, Division of Health
Systems Improvement for the Utah Department of Health. Here he
oversees four Bureaus (Child Care Licensing, Health Facility
Licensing, Emergency Medical services and Preparedness, and
Clinical Services), plus the Office of Primary Care and Rural
Health. He recently served as Director of Student Programs in
Family Medicine at the University of Utah. from 1995-2008. His
work in the field of "Community - Oriented Primary Care" which
emphasizes caring for the patient who is "not in the room," focuses
on the importance of access to health information resources for
providers and patients especially in rural / frontier America.

Epidemiology 101: The Basics

Robert McKnight

Program Speaker: Sunday October 5th 11 AM - 12 PM
Panel Discussion Speaker: Sunday October 5th, 3:30 - 5:00 PM

Robert H. McKnight, MPH, ScD is Director of the Southeast Center
Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention which is funded by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health. A professor of Preventive Medicine
and Environmental Health at University of Kentucky College of Public
Health, he teaches courses in Injury Epidemiology and Control,
and Health and Agricultural Populations. Dr. McKnight is an associate
editor for theJournal of Agricultural Safety and Health and serves
on the editorial board of the Journal of Agromedicine. He has recently
published articles in the Annual Review of Public Health
and Public Health Reports.

Missed Opportunities or It is No Good To Be Right if Nobody Knows it!

Jim Bush

Luncheon Speaker: Monday October 6th, 12:15 - 1:30 PM
Panel Discussion Speaker: Monday October 6th, 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Dr. James Bush-MD, FACP, joined the Wyoming Dept. of Health in
March 2007 as Staff Physician and Medicaid Medical Director. He
is keenly interested in implementing the "Total Health Record" and
making telehealth a working reality in Wyoming. Prior to his current
position, Dr. Bush had a solo practice in Internal Medicine in Fort
Collins, Colorado as well as being Chief of Staff at Poudre Valley
Hospital, and president of the Colorado Society of Internal Medicine.
A teacher as well, he has been on the clinical faculty of the
University of Colorado for 23 years and is involved with teaching
Residents in Family Practice in Fort Collins.

Susan McCabe

Panel Discussion Speaker: Sunday October 5th, 3:30 - 5:00 PM

Susan McCabe – University of Wyoming, Fay W. Whitney School of
Nursing. Dr. McCabe is an Associate Professor of Nursing at
University of Wyoming. She has been the recipient of numerous
awards, most recently the Melva Joe Hendricks Lectureship Award,
International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses. She
recently presented “Health experience of women living in
rural/frontier communities: Mapping their story,” at the Wyoming
Regional Conference on Women and Girls Health, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Her articles focus on mental health care in rural America, homeless
patients’ satisfaction of care surveys, and complimentary herbal
and alternative medicine.

Lesley Boughton

Closing Plenary Speaker: Monday October 6th, 3:30 -4:30 PM
Panel Discussion Speaker: Monday October 6th, 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Lesley Boughton has been the Wyoming State Librarian since 1999.
Prior to accepting this appointment she was a director in three
Wyoming county library systems. She holds a Master’s degree in
Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University and is
active in library association at the state, regional and national
levels.

Rex Gantenbein

Panel Discussion Speaker: Monday October 6th, 10:45 AM - 12 PM.

Dr. Rex Gantenbein is a Professor of Medical Education and Public
Health at the University of Wyoming (UW) and Director of the Center
for Rural Health Research and Education in the College of Health
Sciences. He is also an adjunct Professor in the UW Department of
Computer Science and an affiliate Professor of Biomedical and Health
Informatics in the University of Washington School of Medicine. He
has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Iowa. His
areas of expertise include telemedicine, health information
technology, computer security and privacy, and system engineering.