CHMP

Nancy Cabelus

Nancy Cabelus, DNP, MSN, RN, is an international forensic nurse consultant currently working with Physicians for Human Rights on a program addressing sexual violence in conflict zones in central and east Africa. In addition to a blended, nursing career in practice, education and consulting, Cabelus was also a Connecticut State Trooper for 20 years. Cabelus spent nearly 10 years as a major crimes detective investigating crimes of rape, homicide, and other high profile incidents. After retiring from the Connecticut State Police, Cabelus worked as a consultant for the United States Department of Justice. She was assigned as the senior law enforcement advisor to the Women’s Justice & Empowerment Initiative in Nairobi, Kenya, a US President’s Initiative targeted to combat gender based violence in Africa.

Cabelus is a published author of several articles and book chapters, and is an active member of International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN). In 2010 she was the recipient of IAFN’s Virginia A. Lynch Pioneer Award in Forensic Nursing, the highest award bestowed upon a forensic nurse. Cabelus is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

She holds a master’s degree in forensic nursing from Quinnipiac University and a doctor of nursing practice degree from the University of Tennessee, Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN. Her research project was the development of a model of nursing intervention for victims of sex trafficking.

Jessie Daniels is Associate Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College.  She holds an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Following that, she was a Charles Phelps Taft Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cincinatti.

Jessie Daniels

She is the author of two books White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), both dealing with race and various forms of media.  She is also the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and dozens of conference presentations dealing with race, gender, sexuality and new media. Along with writing about new media, Daniels has also worked in the Internet industry.   She was a Senior Producer with Talk City where she produced live online events for Fortune 500 clients.   Today, Daniels maintains Racism Review, a blog she co-founded with Joe Feagin, which provides up-to-the-minute scholarly analysis of current events having to do with race and racism.   A form of public sociology, Racism Review averages over 200,000 visitors per month.  Daniels was recently named on Forbes’ list of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” Currently, she is at work on a number of research projects about digital media, social inequality and health.  In one project, Daniels is examining the way the reproductive health and gender justice movement has shifted to the Internet; and, in another project, she is exploring how LGBT youth of color use the Internet, especially mobile phones.  Among this population are homeless LGBT youth who use mobile digital devices to survive on the streets of New York City.

Martin Dornbaum M.S. is the Founding Director of the Health Professions Education Center (HPEC) at Hunter College.  Since its inception in 1988, the HPEC has met the educational needs of students at different instructional levels and operates as a comprehensive learning center using new media, computer programs, and audiovisuals as a primary teaching strategy.  As a technology integration specialist, Martin collaborates with faculty on their pedagogical use of IT and the improvement of learning outcomes of future health care professionals. His areas of interest include:  media-use in education, Nursing and Medical Informatics, On-line Clinical Tracking Tools, Electronic Medical Records, Bedside Computing, the use of high-fidelity patient simulators for teaching clinical and diagnostic competencies and decision making skills, Telemedicine, Translational Research, E-learning tools, Computer Assisted Instructional Software, Tablet and GRID Computing.

Martin Dornbaum

During his tenure at the HPEC, Martin has developed and overseen the largest collection of health related media in the City University of New York (CUNY).  The collection consists of over 4,000 titles including clinical research films, medical and surgical films, and topics of general health information.  Martin has served as a media festival judge, film reviewer, and beta tester of health related software for many of the country’s top publishing companies.  He has lectured to undergraduate and graduate classes on effective methods of translating clinical research findings into mass communication tools and ways to utilize media for health promotion. Martin has also has served as a mentor to students in the Hunter College MFA  Program in Integrated Media Arts and as a mentoring faculty member of the Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health- Research in HIV Intervention: Skills for the Community (RHISC) program.

Martin has been awarded several grants for his work in media and curriculum integration, including: Using Digital Video to Enhance Teaching/Learning and Research Objectives in Physical Therapy; Creating Digital Media to Enhance Lab Based Teaching and Learning; Improving Knowledge of Medical Terminology for Health Care Professionals; An Integrated Media Approach to Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals; Multimedia to Enhance the Teaching/ Learning of Autism Spectrum Disorders; The Use of Educational Multimedia to Enhance the Study of Pluralism and Diversity in Healthcare; and Comprehensive Computer Based Review Strategies  for Professional Licensure Examinations. Also, in 2010 Martin will serve as Technology Officer for a five year HRSA grant which will train CUNY nurse educators on the latest nursing technologies. Martin has an extensive resume as a filmmaker and is an expert on utilizing media for the promotion of health policy.  He was Associate Producer of both Stay Tuned: The Challenge of Hearing Loss, and the Emmy nominated film In Care of: Families and Their Elders. The latter film’s eloquent depiction of the hardships of full-time caregivers led to a participating family’s story being featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine. He has collaborated with faculty on a variety of health productions, including In Control, a videotape to promote adherence to a healthy diabetic lifestyle for minority elders, and on a video intervention entitled Reality Check, which teaches the importance of dual protection for pregnancy and HIV/STDs. Martin also produced the critically acclaimed films, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America and Hiding and Seeking. He has also co-produced segments which appeared on the national PBS series- Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. His many accolades include a Media Recognition Award presented by the Alpha Phi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau (International Honor Society of Nursing), a Grand Prize from the North American Interfaith Film Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle, Independent Spirit Award nomination and two Emmy nominations.

Lyndon Haviland With more than 25 years’ experience in domestic and international public health, Dr. Haviland brings broad expertise in management consulting, health policy, advocacy, social marketing, corporate social responsibility, and branding, as well as applied research design and evaluation.

A passionate advocate for social justice and women’s and children’s health around the world, Dr. Haviland acted most recently as a Senior Project Leader for the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. This initiative helped to align hundreds of world actors around a common strategy for saving more than 16 million lives and raised more than $40 billion in new resources for women and children.
Dr. Haviland has directed programs in philanthropy, HIV/AIDS care, maternal and child health care, vaccines and tobacco prevention and cessation services. She has also worked in a broad range of professional
environments spanning domestic, academic, multinational and multilateral organizations and including the Aspen Institute, UNAIDS, the UN, the UN Foundation, HRSA and SPNS projects, UNDP, WHO, the International Medical Corps, the American Legacy Foundation, and the award winning truth® campaign against smoking which won both a gold and silver Effie award during her tenure. Dr. Haviland serves on the Board of Directors of Pact, where she is leading an effort to fund microfinance programs for impoverished women worldwide and recently completed a rotation on the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association where she was awarded one of their highest honors. She holds a masters and a doctorate degree in public health, and has completed Advanced Management & Leadership training at the Harvard Business School. An accomplished writer and public speaker, Dr. Haviland has published more than 25 peer reviewed publications and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business School Alumni magazine.

Joy Jacobson, MFA, is a health care journalist, a medical editor, and a poet. She was an editor at the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) for nearly twelve years, nine of them as managing editor. While there, she supervised production of articles recognized by the Association of Women in Communications, the American Society for Healthcare Publication Editors, Publications Management, and others. In 2008 she won an Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists for her report in AJN on workplace violence against nurses. In 2010 she contributed, with Diana Mason, more than twenty case studies and profiles to a groundbreaking report from the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. Her 2003 chapbook, I And, won the Chapbook Series Award for poetry at the New School in New York City, where she earned a master of fine arts degree. She has a particular interest in the intersection of health care and literature.

David M. Keepnews, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. Dr. Keepnews, an expert on health care systems and health policy, currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice, a quarterly journal. He has previously served in policy-related positions for the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Nurses Association and the California Nurses Association. He also practiced as a staff nurse in psychiatric and substance abuse settings in New York and San Francisco. He has held elected and appointed positions in the American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nursing, the National League for Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International and the Commission in Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools. Dr. Keepnews is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing. He is a recipient of the New York State Nurses Association 2009 Media Award.

May May Leung

May May Leung, PhD, RD is an assistant professor at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College.  Her research expertise includes the development and evaluation of innovative health communication and community-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity.  She also uses community-based participatory research methods, such as Photovoice, to engage and empower communities.  In addition, she focuses on the translation and dissemination of evidence-based interventions and policies to promote health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases.  May May’s work extends internationally as she has worked with the World Health Organization, Shanghai Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.  She currently consults with the University of North Carolina’s Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation, which has a mission of enhancing the public health impact of community practitioners through training and intervention translation initiatives.  She completed her doctoral degree in Public Health Nutrition at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.  She earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her MS in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.  Prior to her time at UNC, May May was an adjunct faculty member and project manager at the University of Pennsylvania-School of Nursing.

Hannah Rosenzweig, MPH, is a documentary filmmaker, producer and public health advocate. Her television work includes films for the History Channel, the Sundance Channel and PBS. She produced PUPPET, an independent feature documentary that premiered at the DOC NYC Festival. Hannah founded Intention Media Inc in 2006, a company that consults on media strategy and produces video for health and human rights organizations. She worked with Hillary Clintonʼs campaign for president in 2007-2008 and continues to produce media for other Democratic races.  She is currently directing two independent documentaries – one about innovative approaches to malaria and the other about food policy in New York City. Before film, Hannah worked as a researcher and community health worker.  Her focus was HIV/AIDS.  She was a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, the California Department of Health Services and Columbia University.  Hannah holds a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH) from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a BA in History from Oberlin College.

Charmaine Ruddock, MS joined the Institute for Family Health formerly known as The Institute for Urban Family Health in 2000 to direct Bronx Health REACH, a coalition of 50 community and faith-based organizations, funded by the Centers for Disease Control’s REACH 2010 Initiative to address racial and ethnic health disparities.  Since 2007 Ms. Ruddock has had oversight of Bronx Health REACH/NY CEED, a CDC designated national Center of Excellence to Eliminate Disparity.  Ms. Ruddock also directs the Institute’s NIH funded initiative exploring the efficacy of faith-based organizations to provide diabetes education; the New York State Department of Health funded School Wellness Initiative and; a Johnson and Johnson funded childhood obesity prevention program.

Ms. Ruddock sits on the board of a number of local and national organizations dedicated to eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.  Ms. Ruddock holds a BA. in Literature and Social Sciences from the University of the West Indies and a Masters of Science in Management and Policy Analysis from the Graduate School of Management, The New School for Social Research.

Liz Seegert, MA is a healthcare journalist, writer, blogger and educator with a focus on social and human welfare.


She merges her 25 years of experience in media and communications with policy issues such as  health disparities, women’s health and wellness,  health technology, literacy, and cultural communication.

Liz writes on a broad range of health topics, including AIDS, heart disease, teen health, and infertility. Her content has been featured in numerous print, video, and online outlets, including Women.com, Kidshealth.org, Discovery Education, HealthWise magazine, New America Media, and ThinkSocial.org. She also develops feature articles and educational materials for the nation’s third-largest hospital system, medical communication firms, and higher education clients. She recently co-authored articles in the Journal of Healthcare Information Management on patient-centered medical homes and in Practical Diabetology on sleep apnea. Prior to launching her solo career, she held communication management positions at a national home health care company, a division of a large not-for-profit, and a major global public relations firm. Liz began her career as a reporter for WBUR-FM, Boston, and then as an associate producer at WNEW-TV in New York.

Liz also teaches media studies and communication at SUNY Empire State College. She created and maintains The Human Factor blog as forum to discuss how health issues impact everyday Americans. She is a member of the Association of Healthcare Journalists, Society of Professional Journalists, Press Club of Long Island and sits on the board of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. She received her Master’s in Social Policy, healthcare concentration, from Empire State College. You can follow Liz on Twitter @lseegert.

Jim Stubenrauch is a writer and editor with 15 years’ experience in medical publishing, health care, and education. As a senior editor at the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), he edited original research and feature articles and monthly columns on clinical and health policy topics; wrote articles on health care reform, evidence-based care, health information technology, and international disaster relief; and wrote and edited photo essays on humanitarian aid and nursing history. New media experience includes blogging at AJN Off the Charts and The Best American Poetry and producing audio podcasts for AJN Online. Prior to his nine years at AJN, he was publications manager at the Healthcare Chaplaincy, a multi-faith clinical pastoral education center that places chaplains in hospitals and nursing homes throughout the Tristate area. He has also written and produced publications for Oncology Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Believer, Riverdale Country School, the New York State Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and many others. He has taught English literature and composition and English as a Second Language in college, secondary, and adult continuing education settings. He received an MFA from the Writing Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.