Workgroup Facilitator
Greg Laudeman, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute
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Greg Laudeman has been designing and managing programs to facilitate adoption of information and communications technologies for over twenty years. A decade of his work has focused on educating, organizing, and supporting leaders, applying his skills as a systems analyst and program designer to communities as well as enterprises. Greg is currently working on a doctorate in Learning and Leadership at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has a Master of Science Degree in Public Policy from Georgia Tech, with concentrations in Information Technology Policy and Economic Development Policy, a Master of Arts degree in Information and Telecommunications Systems from Michigan State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Electronic Media from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Prior to his work with Georgia Tech he developed extensive practical knowledge of telecommunications through work at BellSouth, MCI, and Intelligent Systems and Networking in Chattanooga. This experience built on a professional foundation in broadcasting and electronic media, computer support and training, graphic arts, and as an entrepreneur. |
Subject Matter Experts
Tina Benton, UAMS ANGELS Program and The Center for Distance Health
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Tina Benton is the program director of Antenatal & Neonatal Guidelines and Education Learning System (ANGELS) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the Clinical Division Director and Operations Manager of the Center for Distance Health. Benton assisted in the development of ANGELS in 2003 after 12 years of service in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine as a Perinatal Outreach Nurse. Along with UAMS’ Ann Bynum, Tina Benton accepted the American Telemedicine Association’s Innovation Award for the ANGELS program in 2007. The program was also is a finalist in the 2007 Innovations in American Government Awards by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center for Distance Health acts as an expert consultant and advocate to develop creative telemedicine initiatives in all areas of health care delivery. Benton has presented posters at several Telemedicine-associated meetings in the United States. Tina received her BSN in nursing at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas and she is a long-standing member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).
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William L. England, Ph.D., J.D., P.E.
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Dr. England is Vice-President for Rural Health Care at the Universal Service Administrative Company in Washington DC. He is a former Board Member of the American Telemedicine Association and a former project officer for CMS/HHS, where he oversaw the Medicare telemedicine demonstration and represented CMS on the FCC’s Health Care Advisory Committee. Prior to CMS, Dr. England was an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Fellow in Health Care Financing, and a Research Associate at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care in Indianapolis. Dr. England has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical (Biomedical) Engineering and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research/Health Systems) from Purdue University. His J.D. is from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the Maryland and Washington DC bars and is a licensed engineer in Maryland. |
Dave Lamie, Ph.D., Clemson University
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Dr. R. David Lamie is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Clemson Department of Applied Economics and Statistics. He is housed with the Clemson Institute for Economic and Community Development at Clemson University where he is affiliated with their University Center for Economic Development.
He completed a USDA National E-Commerce Extension Program compilation of e-commerce case studies and is a Southern region representative for the delivery of all programs under this banner. He delivers a statewide small business e-commerce training program ---eCommerceSC, in conjunction with the FastTrac® program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. His research program focuses on a better understanding of the public interest in broadband deployment projects.
David was previously at the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) as a Rural Development Economist and Outreach Specialist. He managed the development of the Rural Information Technology Planning Project while incorporating IT components into other IIRA outreach programs. He initiated a 9-county regional information technology consortium with the Illinois Department of Commerce and the regional Workforce office. He worked with the Illinois Office of the Lt. Governor’s staff as they helped inform sound rural community information technology policy for the state. Between the years 1998 and 2002 as Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at Virginia Tech, David piloted a county-wide rural community development program entitled, Take Charge. The program was integrated into a U.S. Department of Commerce Technical Opportunities Program (TOP) grant-funded program that, in collaboration with the Blacksburg Electronic Village, delivered county-wide technology master plans and community networks.
He has been active in the Community Development Society Community’s Board of Directors and Information Technology Action Network, the National Rural Telecongress, and a member of the Association for Community Networking.
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