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Dr. Michele Bachhuber
(Medical Director, Security Health Plan)
Dr. Bachhuber is a Medical Director at Security Health Plan. As part of her Medical Director responsibilities, she oversees the Plan’ government programs and coverage decisions that require medical judgment including out-of-area referrals and experimental treatments, as well as quality improvement, disease and health management programs provided by the Plan.She is a 1992 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Marshfield Clinic/Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Dr. Bachhuber’s specialty is General Internal Medicine with special interest in Women’s Health.
Roger Baer, Educator and Designer Chair / Associate Professor Iowa State University. Roger is well known for his work in the field of design education and practice, and has consulted widely with academic institutions about program and curricular development. He is a NASAD certified reviewer for Art & Design program accreditation, has been President and Vice-President of the Art Directors Association of Iowa, served on the Board of Directors of the Graphic Design Education Association, as Education Chair for the University and College Design Association, and as Regional Director and Member of the Board of Directors for the Design Communication Association.
Roger’s professional design experiences include working with Graphic Marking Corporation, specializing in identity and architectural environmental information design in Los Angeles, Indiana Design Consortium, and his own consulting practice, Roger Baer Design. He has won awards from The Type Directors Club of New York, Art Directors Club of New York, Art Directors Club of Tulsa, Art Directors Association of Iowa, Print Magazine, University and College Design Association, Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Aldus Magazine, American Institute of Graphic Arts, CASE (Council for the Arts in Support of Education).
Dr. Donald Baker, Veterinarian with the WI Dept of Agriculture's Division of Food Safety for the past 10 years.
Laura Baranowski, SBIR Program Specialist, Wisconsin Department of Commerce The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is the nation's premier funding source for small firms developing next-generation technologies and products. SBIR and its sister program, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), provides grants and contracts to companies furthering technology of national interest.
Dr. Terence Barrett is a licensed psychologist in private practice at the Discovery Counseling Center in Fargo , North Dakota . He provides therapy for individuals, couples, and families in addition to suicide awareness, prevention, aftermath consultation; crisis intervention and hostage negotiation.
Dr. Barrett has conducted professional development workshops throughout the Midwest and Western United States . His audiences have included health and human services professionals who deal with suicidal individuals, exploitative personalities, criminals, children with troubled behavior and adults recovering from childhood trauma. Dr. Barrett provides group facilitation with adults and children experiencing divorce.
Dr. Barrett received his B.A. in Psychology from College of Wooster , Ohio , and earned advanced degrees from University of Southern California , North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota. He has been a psychology instructor at North Dakota State University and Concordia College , Moorhead . He is published in multiple publications such as Suicide and Life- Threatening Behavior . Dr. Barrett is author of The Survivor's Grief Experience , a book on suicide and the effect on survivors.
Dr. Jacqueline Barnitz - University of Texas at Austin Professor Barnitz received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on the subject of "The 'Martinfierristas' and Argentine Art of the 1920". She has taught modern Latin American art at the University of Texas at Austin since 1981. She is the author of Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America; and contributed to numerous books and exhibition catalogues including the Museum of Modern Art's Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century; the Archer Huntington Museum at UT-Austin's exhibition catalogue The School of the South: El Taller Torres-Garcia (1992); and Orozco: Una Re-lectura (A re-reading of Orozco) published in Mexico in 1983. For many years she wrote essays and reviews for Arts Magazine, and other journals. She has organized exhibitions including Young Mexicans (Center for Inter-American Relations in New York), and Latin American Artists in New York Since 1970 (Archer Huntington Art Gallery). Over the last 35 years she has lectured and participated in symposia in the United States and Latin America. She is currently contributing to a catalogue of the Latin American collection at the University of Texas's Blanton Museum (formerly the Archer Huntington Art Gallery), and working on several projects, including one on contemporary Latin American art of the last 30 years.
Amy Basic is the vice president of Basic International Inc. of Chicago. Besides her non-fossil fuels business, she has created and presented the acclaimed Painting On Water™ for more than 15 years, under the artist name of Amy Lee Segami. She is credited with transformation of the ancient Suminagashi* (sue-me-NAH-gah-shee) into a contemporary art of Painting On Water™ through her innovation of arts and science creativity, blending with the culture diversity from the East and the West. Her work is referred to as breaking historical boundaries of art and expanding technological boundaries by redefining its expression. In addition to many private collections, her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York. As a recipient of the CAAP grant from Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago and the Chicago Outstanding Citizen Award for her extraordinary ability to bring science and art together, Amy Lee Segami was one of the founders of the Fine Arts Building Gallery, located in a National Historic Landmark in downtown Chicago.
Roy A. Bauer, CEO of Key Teknowledgy Corporation.
Roy has broad executive management experience in Manufacturing, Product Development, Information Systems, Operations and Marketing. He is a successful management consultant and author of a number of management books.
As the President and COO of Pemstar Inc, a global contract manufacturing company with 4000 employees and 12 sites worldwide, Roy led the successful turn-around back to sustained profitability after 3 consecutive years of losses and a NASDAQ delisting. He and his team accomplished the successful restructuring of the company in 9 months, improving stockholder value by 400% over a two-year period, and ranking Pemstar Inc number one of Minnesota public companies in Total Return to Shareholders in 2006.
As an IBM senior executive, Roy played a key role in developing the small hard-file product business. He also created the successful change strategies that transformed a major IBM organization from a product-driven to market-driven culture, developing and launching the highly successful AS/400 system in record time. As the Director of Market-Driven Quality at IBM Rochester, Roy established many leadership customer satisfaction and Market-Driven Quality initiatives throughout IBM. He was the architect of IBM Rochester's application that won the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
As a management consultant and featured speaker internationally, Roy brings his practical leadership experience to help organizations and senior executives solve problems and create opportunities. One of his unique consulting experiences involved creating the process design and architecture of the information technology operations for the Nagano and Sydney Olympic Games.
Roy has written numerous articles on Market-Driven Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Information Technology, and Business Transformation, and has authored three books. “The Silverlake Project," describes the deployment of ten management principles used to transform a major business from a product driven to market driven successful enterprise. “The Quality Journey” chronicles IBM Rochester’s winning Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. “Competitive Dominance” describes the critical synergy required between quality management and strategic management to gain and sustain business leadership. Book summaries can be viewed at www.keyteknowledgy.com.
Roy served 3 years on the Panel of Judges for the Baldrige program, and as Chairperson for one of those years. He has also served 6 years as a Baldrige senior examiner and is currently a member of the Juran Medal Committee. Roy is a Vietnam veteran and serves on the Board of Directors of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Foundation. In 2003, he received an honorary Doctorate of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Roy has appeared on several syndicated television programs, and has been profiled in the Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Wall Street Journal. He has been interviewed and quoted in worldwide business and industry publications, including Fortune, Newsweek International, Machine Design, Electronic Business, and Industry Week.
Ms. Lisa Bast is a speech language pathologist with the Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI.
Richard Beach is Professor of English Education at the University of Minnesota . His publications focus on response to literature, composition, and inquiry instruction.
Lora Beebe provides students with a solid background in theory, ear training, composition, improvisation, sight-reading and technique. Her goal is to help her students develop into well-rounded musicians who feel confident in their playing ability. A graduate of UW-Superior in Piano Performance, she is the Musical Director and organist for the Sacred Heart - St. Patrick Parish in Eau Claire.
Dr Jim Bensen will challenge us to think about the future. He will articulate how "planning from the future" can provide increased capacity for personal and organizational leadership skills. Jim will discuss how we can be more aware of the pace of change and give examples of how change impacts our work and lives. He will apply operational and strategic planning ideas for our own work settings. Jim Bensen, President Emeritus of Bemidji State University, holds a baccalaureate degree from Bemidji State, a master's from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and a doctorate from Penn State. He served as president at both BSU and The Dunwoody Institute, following 23 years as the Dean of the College of Technology, Engineering, and Management at UW-Stout. In 1997 he co-authored the MIT- sponsored study, "Tomorrow's Technology- Know How for Manufacturing and Technology Leaders of the 21st Century." Jim speaks, writes, and consults nationally and internationally in a variety of areas relating to quality, economic development, innovation, excellence and the future. Research Posters: Student and faculty aging/gerontology related research "posters" will be displayed for viewing throughout the day.
Sue Berg, RN, NP, Dept of Cardiology, Midelfort clinic-Mayo Health System, Eau Claire, WI.
Tara Beuscher MSN, RN, CS, CWON, Clinical Specialist in Gerontology, Marshfield Clinic, Minocqua Center, Minocqua, WI
Tara Beuscher brings a wealth of teaching and clinical experience in foot and nail care to this seminar. She draws upon her work experience in clinic, hospital, home care, and long term care settings, and her extensive training in foot care, pain management, wound, ostomy, continence, and gerontology services. She has served as a preceptor for the graduate nursing programs at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN.
Tara is a member of several professional organizations including the American Nurses Association, the Wisconsin Nurses Association, and the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society. She has served in various leadership positions within these organizations including being a member of the foot care nursing advisory committee which established the content outline for the WOCNCB Foot and Nail Care Certification Examination.
Tara has published in a variety of sources. Her most recent publication is a chapter on Foot and Nail Care in Acute and Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts; 3rd Edition, 2007, published by Mosby/Elsevier and edited by Ruth A. Bryant and Denise P. Nix.
Tara was the recipient of the 1997 Wisconsin Nurses Association Nursing Practice Award which recognizes the recipient’s contributions to innovations in patient care, service as a role model for nursing practice, commitment to the practice of professional nursing and utilization and dissemination of research in practice.
Sara Black received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Her special interest is drawing. She enjoys working with community members who wish to learn how to draw.
Duane Blaine has been a member of the international logistics/shipping business for more than 22 years. Seven years were spent in sales for a global shipping line and the past 15 years have been spent on the freight forwarding side of the business. The main concentration of my efforts has been within ocean and air transportation sales. Duane’s focus with customers has been on the timing and coordination of their Supply Chain--with the end result being a smoother, more cost effective logistics process.
Anthony Bourget, attorney, bourgetlaw.com Licensing new products and technology involves the sharing of knowledge and experience. In the case of entrepreneurs, independent inventors and companies, this sharing can benefit both parties by increasing profit opportunities and expanding market access. Homework and legwork, however, enhance the chances for success of this process.
Summer Joy Brackhan began violin at the age of six by means of the Suzuki method. She has been fortunate to have Nancy Jackson, a highly acclaimed Suzuki teacher, and Mathias Tacke of the world renowned Vermeer Quartet as her instructors. While living in the Chicago area, Summer taught private lessons, was a member of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, and gained her Suzuki Book One certification. She holds degrees in music and sociology from Augsburg College and a Master's in violin performance along with a Performer's Certificate from Northern Illinois University.
William Bradshaw, Ph.D., LICSW, is an associate professor in the University of Minnesota's School of Social Work and recipient of the 1999 McFarland Creative Teaching Award from the College of Human Ecology. His professional interests include spirituality and health, psychopathology, community mental health treatment and family treatment. Prior to joining the University faculty, he was the Director of Psychiatry and Chemical Dependency at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, California, and has worked in family service, mental health and chemical dependency programs. As an expert in the treatment of major mental disorders, Dr. Bradshaw has lectured internationally in Europe, Canada and India, as well as throughout the United States.
Cheryl Brandt, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor, Adult Health Nursing, UW-Eau Claire College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Eau Claire, WI.
Norm Brickl, MSSW, is President of NB Consulting and Training, Inc., a firm that specializes in training for Social Workers, Social Work Supervisors and Directors of Human Services Departments in the areas of Child Welfare practice, supervision, and management. He also provides consultation on program development and evaluation for Social Services and Human Services Departments.
Norm holds a Master's Degree in Social Work and a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to starting his own training and consulting business, he spent 26 years as a director of two county human services agencies in Wisconsin .
Herb Brokering, M.Div., Ph.D, is a pastor, professor, consultant, retreat leader, husband and father. He guides pilgrimages into the world. He has authored 40 books and many hymns. He is living in his eighth decade as the orthodox Lutheran most likely to "color outside the lines."
Bernice Buresh, is a journalist, international lecturer, and co-author of the award-winning book, from Silence to Voice: What nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public. She has been a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel, a correspondent and bureau chief for newsweek, and a professor of journalism at Boston University. She is on the board of the Center for nursing Advocacy which monitors the depiction of nursing in the news and entertainment media.
Bruce Burnside, of the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua, will entertain us with a presentation that shows some of the wonderful sides of students and reminds you there's still hope. Music is a vehicle that allows us to travel a long way without realizing it. Learn how you can inspire kids to relate to silly and serious subjects in the classroom. Hear examples of all age groups creating from their life experiences.
Jack Bushnell is a writer and educator who has more than a dozen years of experience writing proposals in the private sector, first as a New York City advertising executive, and later as a research manager for Nabisco Foods. In recent years, he has written a number of successful grant proposals to support his research and creative activity as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is also an award-winning children's author.
