Journal of Biocommunication 32.3

VOLUME 32 / NUMBER 3 / 2007

Because of circumstances beyond our control, the video, motion media segments, and still images for the 2006 Media Festival award winners listed below are not available to include in this section For this we offer our sincere apologies.

The purpose of the HeSCA Media Festival is to award and recognize health communications media that demonstrate outstanding design and production values. The Festival is an international forum for health sciences media, which divides the submitted entries into categories, based on media format and intended audience.

A demanding peer review process evaluates all entered productions using standardized criteria. These criteria include technical quality, production values and techniques, educational design, technological innovation, creativity, and craftsmanship of the media product. The following awards were presented at the HeSCA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on July 1, 2006.

Bronze Winners

Print Media
The Royal Children’s Hospital
Boys Will Be Boys – A Guide to Sports Participation for People with Haemophilia and Other Bleeding Disorders
Greer Sansom, Producer

Video – Curriculum Based
Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
FUEL: Skin Deep
Carol Heumann Snider, Producer

Video – General Health Information
M. C. Films
The Weight of Obesity: A Balanced Reality
Mickey Freemen, Producer

Paradigm Pictures Proprietary Limited Company
Selling Sickness – An Ill for Every Pill
Pat Fiske, Producer

InJoy Birth & Parenting Videos
You Can Quit! – How to Stop Smoking During Pregnancy
Charlie Stein, Producer

Video – Patient Education
Kaiser Permanente
Quitting For Good: Kaiser Permanente’s Stop Smoking Program
Jo Ann Lesser, Producer

Video – Marketing
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
The Children’s Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Mark Adamcik and Elaine Mays, Producers

Silver Winners

Print Media
Cardinal Health System
2006 Cancer Center Annual Report
Will Henderson, Producer

Medical College of Georgia
MCG Tomorrow 2004
Pamela J. Hayes, Producer

Video – Marketing
Medical College of Georgia
A Closer Look
Michael H. Miller, Ph.D., Tim Johnson, and Ben Fergusin, Producers

Interactive Media
HealthMark Multimedia
Recurrent Prostate Cancer: Your Decision Notebook®
Susan Brink and Ann E. McFarren, Producers

Gold Winner

Video – Curriculum Based
University of Leicester Audio Visual Services
Recognizing Risk and Improving Patient Safety
Paul Allsop, Steve Overton, Jon Shears, Nicole Stewart and Paul Stewart, Producers

Special Awards

Milton E. Adsit Excellence in Veterinary Medical Media Award
University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
Smoky’s Story: Four Pounds of Courage
Aaron Killian and Babbet Harbison, Producers

The 2006 Elmer Friman Best of Show Award Winner
University of Leicester Audio Visual Services
Recognizing Risk and Improving Patient Safety
Paul Allsop, Steve Overton, Jon Shears, Nicole Stewart and Paul Stewart, Producers

Note: Judges of the HeSCA Media Festival do not judge the content (e.g., science, medical technique, therapy, or application) of a particular media production, and the content and opinions reflected in the media submitted are solely the opinions of the author(s) and are not endorsed by HeSCA.

Look for the 2007 Media Festival winners, with images from their award winning entries, in a future issue of JBC.