Communications Update
As The Physiologist went to press, the Communications Department and Communications Committee were finalizing plans for the hands-on symposium, The Wiki Wiki Workshop: Your Fast Track to the New APS Web Site. The symposium will take place at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 18, at Experimental Biology 2009, in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

Members are expected to be part of a humorous and fast-paced four-part presentation on what APS and other organizations are doing to connect science, health, and the public in the Web 2.0 era. Among the topics being discussed are the APS wiki, a member-driven collaborative site that will serve as the basis of our upgrade of the consumer-based site PhysiologyInfo.org. There will be a hands-on learning segment to introduce participants to the wiki.

At press time, the following speakers had been confirmed:
  • Meg Farris, Medical Reporter, WWL-TV Channel 4, in New Orleans. The CBS affiliate reaches southeastern Louisiana and parts of southern Mississippi. She does the high-profile segment Medical Watch, which appears four times per week. Her episodes range from the multi-faceted topics of health care to interviews with nationally known medical and fitness specialists.
  • Marin P. Allen, Director of Public Information at the National Institutes of Health. She is a former director of communications for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, directed public relations at Gallaudet College and has received two EMMY Awards for programs she produced for Discovery Channel and PBS.
  • Christie Nicholson, freelance science journalist, podcast and internet video series producer and contributing editor at SciAm.com, where she helped launch two video series, Instant Egghead and The Monitor; and two audio podcasts, 60-Second Psych and 60-Second Earth. She won a Webby and a People’s Voice award for a site she helped create and produce, Science of Sex.

Communications Committee Chairman Frank Belloni, of the New York Medical College, will moderate the session. He has led the committee since 2006. Under his direction, the committee developed and launched the APS podcast series, Life Lines (2007) and has overseen revitalization of the APS consumer web site, PhysiologyInfo.org and the development of the APS wiki.

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