Picture This
Advisory Committee
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Harriet Baum
Erika Beras
Mario Browne
Jonas Chaney
Safdar Chaudhary, M.D.
Brian Dyak
Anne Germain, Ph.D.
Jill Greenwood
Sheila Hyland
Ann
Mitchell, Ph.D.
Maggie Patterson
Jeffrey Peters, M.D.
Mark Roth
Joni Schwager
Susan Brozek Scott
Maria Simbra, M.D.
Andrew Stockey
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Susan
Brozek Scott |  Susan Brozek Scott's 29-year television career spanned 4
states and 5 television stations where she amassed vast experience and critical acclaim as an award-winning anchor/reporter/talk show host and most recently as
a senior producer in local programming at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh. She won the Governor's Award for
Conservation Communicator of the Year working at WRAL-TV. She has developed three
medical talk shows, and is currently the co-host of What's On Your Mind?, a
weekly behavioral health & wellness show. Susan founded and is President & CEO of Afterschool Buddy, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based children's education and entertainment production company.
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Brian Dyak
|  Brian Dyak,
a pioneer of edutainment and depiction suggestions of health and social issues, is a
nationally recognized impresario of social marketing and communication
strategies. As founder and President of the Entertainment Industries Council, Inc.
and the Entertainment & Media Communication Institute, he has successfully
constructed a bridge between the entertainment industry and health and social
policy issues for the past 27 years. He is an award-winning executive
producer/creator of the PRISM Awards (FX Networks), a television special addressing substance abuse and mental health.
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Erika Beras |  Erika Beras joined DUQ's radio station News
Department in 2009 as the Behavioral Health reporter and producer. Prior to coming to DUQ, she spent two years
covering breaking news for The Miami Herald. She has also been a Kaiser Health reporting intern at The Cleveland Plain Dealer and has written for publications
such as Ms. Magazine, Mental Floss, The Tico Times and Women's E-News. She has
won national awards for her reporting and writing including The Rolling Stone
College Journalism Award and an Associated Press Sports Editors Award. |
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Jonas
Chaney
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tenure in Pittsburgh, Jonas Chaney has worked for NBC affiliate WPXI-TV, WTAE-Radio,
American Urban Radio Networks, WAMO, and National Public Radio's WDUQ. During
his three-year stay with WDUQ he won six Golden Quill awards including two
best-in-state honors for investigative reporting. Jonas is now the Public
Affairs Director for WPXI-Television where he received two national AFTRA
(American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) "American Scene" awards
for best documentary. Jonas also works with the University
of Pittsburgh's Medical School
as a Standardized Patient.
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Jill
King Greenwood
|  Jill King
Greenwood is a police reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper. She
is a Pittsburgh native who left to obtain a
bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism, history and Kiswahili from Kent State
University. Greenwood worked as a police reporter at The
Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi for two years before taking a job at The Tampa Tribune newspaper as
a police reporter. She has done work for WFLA, NewsChannel 8 in Tampa; WTAE Channel 4 and WPXI Channel 11 News in Pittsburgh, and has
reported local news of national significance for On the Record with Greta Van
Sustern, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° and MSNBC's
The Abrams Report.
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Sheila Hyland
|  Sheila
Hyland has more than 20 years of on-air television experience working for major
network affiliates including ABC, CBS and FOX. She currently is a principal
with FosterHyland & Associates, an agency specializing in media training,
executive coaching and crisis communications. Hyland is a frequent speaker,
emcee and event volunteer for local schools and several non-profit
organizations. She is also a contributor to Broadcast
News Writing and Reporting.
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Maggie
Patterson
|  Maggie Patterson is an associate professor
of journalism at Duquesne
University. She is a former reporter for the Pittsburgh
Press.
She has co-authored "Art Rooney: A
Sporting Life" (University
of Nebraska Press, 2010),
"Behind the Lines: Case Studies in
Investigative Reporting" and "Birth or
Abortion? Private Struggles in a Political World." Recent articles include
"'Killing the True Story of First Nations: The Ethics of Constructing a
Culture Apart," Journal of Mass Media
Ethics, 2008, and "Covering Pittsburgh's G-20" in Duquesne Magazine, February 2010. |
| Mark Roth |
Mark Roth is a senior staff writer at the  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he has been working since 1982. Mark has made a name for himself in social and science issues and has enjoyed being both the City Editor and the first full-time Science Editor. In the Fall of 2005, Mark was a German Marshall Fund journalist fellow, and in June of 2008, he was invited to come to MIT and participate in the Knight Science Journalism workshop on brain science. He continues to write a monthly series titled "The Thinkers" which focuses on research conducted by members of the Pittsburgh community. |
| | Maria Simbra, M.D.
|  Maria Simbra, M.D. is an Emmy
award-winning medical journalist. This physician provides expert and
informative
reports on the health care issues that affect our hometown residents the
most. Dr. Simbra has worked for, volunteered,
and
participated in events with many organizations, including the University
of
Pittsburgh Medical Center, the National Institutes of Health, the
American
Cancer Society, and the American Heart Association to name a few. Her written work has appeared in the Public
Library of Science, Neurology Reviews, and the Journal of the American
Medical
Association. |
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Andrew
Stockey
|  Andrew Stockey serves as a Race For
The Cure co-spokesperson with Channel 4 Action News anchor Michelle
Wright, and
is a host/spokesman for Pathways and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and
serves as
an emcee for a variety of local charitable events and causes. He has won an Emmy Award for a special
program about Race For The Cure, as well as Edward R. Murrow and Golden Quill
awards for his sports broadcasting. He won 2005 best sportscast and best sports
play-by-play from the
Pennsylvania Associated Press.
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Medical Advisory Panel
Harriet Baum
Board of Directors
Staunton Farm Foundation
Mario Browne
Project Director
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Center for Minority Health
Safdar Chaudhary, M.D.
Director
S'eclairer Private Practice
Anne Germain, Ph.D
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Ann Mitchell, Ph.D
Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Jeffrey Peters, M.D.
Vice President of Behavioral Health Services
Veterans Affairs (Pittsburgh Health System)
Joni Schwager
Executive Director
Staunton Farm Foundation
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