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Health Literacy, eHealth, and Communication: Putting the Consumer First: Workshop Summary

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for biomedical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He established
a well-funded program of informatics research and directed the enter-
prise-wide effort to develop and deploy integrated advanced information
resources across the health sciences center. Dr. Friedman’s research has
focused on how to build information and knowledge resources that make
clinicians, biomedical researchers, and health professional students better
at what they do—and how to study the effects of these resources. He has
also studied and written about how institutions can organize to make
optimal use of their information and knowledge resources.
Dr. Friedman has authored or co-authored over 150 articles in sci-
entific journals. He is the author of a well-known textbook on evalua-
tion methods for biomedical informatics. He is a past president of the
American College of Medical Informatics and was the 2005 chair of the
Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association. He
currently serves as associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical
informatics Association.

Dawn gauthier, M.I.S., is a Web usability designer at PeaceHealth, a
nonprofit six-hospital system based in Bellevue, Washington. From 2002
to 2006 she led the design and development of the Web-based Shared Care
Plan personal health record (PHR), widely recognized for trailblazing
many innovative and patient-centered PHR concepts. She also partici-
pated in an AHRQ-funded study on how patient-owned PHRs could
be used to help maintain accurate medication lists across a community.
More recently she has led the introduction of user-centered design and
user experience to PeaceHealth’s Web application development lifecycle.
Ms. Gauthier holds a Master of Information Science degree, specializing
in human-computer interaction, user-oriented information architecture,
and interactive design, from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
She currently resides in Bellingham, Washington, with her husband and
passionately advocates for user-centered design in all health care pro-
cesses, with an emphasis on patient needs and their privacy.

Linda Harris, Ph.D., leads the Health Communication and ehealth Team
in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). In this role she supervises
the management of the National Health Information Center, a congressio-
nally mandated source of health information for the public (healthfinder.
gov). Prior to her arrival at ODPHP, Dr. Harris was a senior health com-
munication scientist at the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer
Control and Population Sciences where she managed health communica-
tion technology research projects, including health systems research in
collaboration with the VA. She has over 20 years of experience manag-

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