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| Community Engagement - Making Meaningful Connections, Producing Positive Outcomes: Faculty Perspective |
| Panelist Bios |
| Stewart Brower, MLIS, AHIP |
| Stewart Brower, Director of the OU-Tulsa Library since 2007, received his Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 1993. He served as Reference and Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences library from 1993 to 1998, then went on to become Technology Development and Promotions Librarian at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis from 1998 to 2000. He was Coordinator of Information Management Education at the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library and as library liaison to the UB School of Pharmacy. He has presented extensively on teaching the Millennial generation of students, has published a paper on his experiences with Millennials. He is also co-editor of Communications in Information Literacy, an online peer-reviewed journal. |
| Lamont Cavanagh, M.D. |
| A Tulsa native, Lamont Cavanagh, M.D., earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Oklahoma. After an I internship in Tulsa, he spent five years as an Air Force flight surgeon and currently is chief of aerospace medicine for the 138th Fighter Wing of the Oklahoma National Guard. In 2000, he completed a family medicine residency and a sports medicine fellowship at OU-Tulsa. He joined the clinical faculty of the Department of Medicine in 2001. He sports medicine activities include serving as tournament physician for the Western Athletic Conference Basketball Tournament and team physician for three universities in Tulsa and a high school in the Tulsa area, and for the Colorado Rockies Baseball A farm club. He is married and enjoys spending time with his children. |
| Diane M. Horm, Ph.D |
| Diane Horm is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Early Childhood Education Institute at the University of Oklahoma at Tulsa. At OU-Tulsa Diane and her colleagues are developing a bachelor’s completion program in ECE in partnership with Tulsa Community College as the primary collaborator. Through the Early Childhood Education Institute Dr. Horm is leading several applied research initiatives including program evaluation research in collaboration with the Head Start, Early Head Start, and Educare programs operated by the Community Action Project of Tulsa County. Additionally, the Early Childhood Education Institute is active in several outreach initiatives to disseminate early childhood research to varied audiences. |
| Brenda Lloyd-Jones, Ph.D |
| Brenda Lloyd-Jones, Ph.D., is an associate chair and associate professor in OU’s Department of Human Relations. Her teaching and research interests focus on strategic development of leadership capacity for people and organizations, with an emphasis in social justice. Founder of the People Interaction Institute, a human relations training and consulting firm, and involved in Tulsa’s volunteer infrastructure, she was honored with the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women Award for Public Service. She has served as a certified mediator for the state of Oklahoma, is founder of the Mothers Group of Tulsa, Inc., and is former president of the Junior League of Tulsa. |
| Tony Palmer, D.Ph., MBA |
Tony earned his Bachelor’s of Science in Pharmacy from The University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy and Masters of Business Administration from the University Of St. Thomas Cameron School Of Business. He is a student in the doctorate of business administration program-specializing in Leadership at The Walden University. His undergraduate teaching interests focus on pharmacy health care administration and he teaches in the second year of the doctor of pharmacy program in three required courses and one elective course. |
| Shawn Schaefer |
| Schaefer possesses a Bachelor of Architecture degree with Special Distinction and a Master of Architecture degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma. He is a licensed architect in the State of Oklahoma with over fifteen years of practice experience and is board certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Eastern Oklahoma Chapter where he has served on the Board of Directors, the Public Affairs Committee and has received the Henry Adams Medal. He is also a member of the American Planning Association and is a board certified city planner. Mr. Schaefer has served on the Arts Commission of the City of Tulsa, the PlaniTulsa Advisory Committee and the Tulsa Preservation Commission. Mr. Schaefer was appointed director of the OUUDS in 2000 after several years as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture. He teaches Advanced Urban Design Studio, Research Methods, and Professional Project classes while selecting and overseeing all of the studio projects. Mr. Schaefer has also competed in numerous international architecture and urban design competitions. |
| Moderator: Mike Lapolla, MHA Co-Director, OU Center for Health Policy College of Public Health University of Oklahoma-Tulsa |
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