"Caring for the Patient Who is Not in the Room"

Marc Babitz , MD

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. 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.

Lesley Boughton MLS

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.

Jim Bush MD, FACP

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. Also a teacher, 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.

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.

“Health and Information Access on the Frontier”

Rex Gantenbein PhDPanelPhD
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.

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS, is the Community Outreach Liaison for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region. Her office is located at Creighton University’s Health Sciences Library. She is responsible for developing health information programs for underserved and vulnerable populations in six states, through developing effective and efficient partnerships with community groups. She created the “Bringing Health Information to the Community” web log that serves as a clearinghouse of information for grant information, web sites, and resources on public health, HIV/AIDS and more. Her content generation also includes web pages for minority health and low income populations. In 2005, Siobhan was named by Library Journal as one of the “Movers and Shakers” in the country. She also received the University of Illinois Graduate School of Information Science “Health Sciences Information Award” in 2003.

Frances Clymer MA MLS

Park County Library System Director Cody, WyomingPanelWyomingPanel Discussion Speaker: Monday, October 6th, 10:45 AM-12:00 PM
Frances Clymer is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the Université de Poitiers. She earned her MLS degree from the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. Since the spring 2005 she has been involved in the planning and construction of a new central library facility for Park County in Cody, Wyoming. The library opens to the public on October 4, 2008.

Prior to assuming her position with the Park County Library System, Clymer was for many years librarian of the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody. She and her family have lived in Cody since 1983.

Deborah H. Ward, MA, MSLS, AHIP

Director, Health Sciences Libraries
University of Missouri - ColumbiaPanelColumbiaPanel Discussion Speaker: Monday ,October 6th,
10:45 AM -12 PM