Yesterday Friday 23 March there was an informal meetup for people interested in ethics, biobanking, and modern media in Seattle. It was by invitation. I think most people who attended knew many of the other people in the room, and what I took away from the meeting was that we all share a common problem and are representative of an entire field. I felt encouraged by the meeting because it showed me that I even though I feel weak because of my problems with communicating biotechnology, other people are having the same problem and we are all interested in helping each other.
Here is a list of who is cool in Seattle biotech communications:
Mary Guiden, Seattle Children’s, public relations
Allison Rhodes, UW, surgical outcomes research
Raphael Alphonso-Cristancho, UW, surgical outcomes research
Nylkhalid “Bo” Jungmayer of NWABR
Sean Schmidt, science design and culture blogger
Brian Glanz of the Open Science Federation
Lynn Rose, Seattle Children’s biorepository
Craig Rubens
Marc Provence, UW public health
John Fogerty – patient advocate and public relations for big media
Irish Malig biotech communicator
Cyan James, grad student in UW program for public health genetics
Lara Mangravite of Sage Bionetworks
Marc Haertle
Kathy
Peggy Porter, biospecimen collection at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jon Izant of Sage Bionetworks
Christine Suver of Sage
Marilyn Hair
Jenn Wroblewski, public engagement at NWABR
Nick Anderson
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch pediatrician and bioinformatics
Malia Fullerton bioethics and population genetics at UW
Barbara Stein, director of the Consortium Biospecimen Resource
James Riddle, IRB at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Susan Adler of NWABR
Jason Malone of the Institute of Translational Health Sciences
Victoria Chinnell of the Seattle HVTU Community Advisory Board
Joyce Minor, patient advocate
John Paul Europa, nurse and researcher at Northwest Kidney Center
Sarah Alexander now of GAPPS and formerly of HVTN
Therese Beale of Beale Communication
me
I am going to review some of what was discussed in some upcoming posts.