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2011 Conference Panelist and Speakers

Current panelists and speakers presenting at the
2nd Annual T2 Virtual Worlds Conference on July 28, 2011.

Clark Aldrich

President and Founder, Clark Aldrich Designs

Clark Aldrich is one of the top simulation designers in the world. His company, Clark Aldrich Designs, works with corporate, military, and academic organizations on simulations, serious games, and other advanced learning projects. Clark has authored five books, his most recent titled Unschooling Rules challenges the concepts of popular education techniques and sets new rules.

Jeremy Bailenson

Director, Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL)

Director and founder of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) and Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University

Celeste DeVaneaux

CEO, Club One Island

Celeste DeVaneaux is responsible for the design, vision and direction of Club One’s virtual worlds programs. A graduate of University of Washington’s Virtual World Program; Celeste brings 20 years experience in Information Technology, Quality Assurance, and Process Improvement to solve technically complex problems from organizational to global levels.

Dan Frank

CEO and Managing Partner of Three Wire Systems, LLC.
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As the CEO and Managing Partner of Three Wire Systems, LLC, Dan Frank oversees the operations and strategic direction for the company. Since he founded Three Wire in 2006, the company has expanded its IT solutions to provide telehealth platforms to help veterans with behavioral health and occupational issues.

Ron Goldman

Co-Founder & CEO, Kognito Interactive

Ron Goldman is the co-founder & CEO of Kognito Interactive, an award-winning developer of role-playing training simulation and games in the areas of health and behavioral health. Ron has extensive experience as an entrepreneur in the areas of new media, learning technology, serious games, and entertainment.

Tami Griffith

Program Manager for the Development of the Enhanced Dynamic Geo-specific Environment (EDGE) Massively Multi-Player Environment

Tami Griffith has the genuine pleasure of conducting research into the use of games and virtual worlds for learning as a Science and Technology Manager and Team Lead for the U.S. Army Research Lab, Simulation and Training Technology Center.  She initiated the Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge; which awards innovators as a means of discovering cutting edge virtual technology to expand current Federal Government capabilities in virtual environments.

Navy Captain Paul S. Hammer

Director, Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE)

Capt. Hammer is the director of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE).

Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs, MD, PhD.

Exec. Medical Officer of Innovation in Learning, Inc.

Dr. Heinrichs’ earned his MD degree with Honors in his native state of Oklahoma, completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University, Detroit MI, and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry at the University of Oregon Health Sciences campus.

Kevin Holloway, PhD | SL:Jarom Cooperstone

Clinical Psychologist, National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2)

Kevin M. Holloway, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), a component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. He serves as the lead and subject matter expert of T2’s virtual worlds project, which aims to leverage the affordances of virtual worlds technology to improve access to and quality of psychological health care services to Service Members, Veterans, and their families.

Marlene Maheu

Director of the TeleMental Health Institute

Marlene Maheu is a San Diego-based psychologist. She has been a researcher, scholar, speaker and innovator in telehealth since 1994. She has been the lead author of two cornerstone books in the field:

    eHealth, Telehealth and Telemedicine

   The Mental Health Professional and the New Technologies

She currently is the Director of the TeleMental Health Institute, where she:

Douglas Maxwell

Science and Technology Manager for the U.S. Army Research Lab, Simulation and Training Technology Center

Douglas Maxwell conducts research into the use of virtual environments for strategic applications as a Science and Technology Manager for the U.S. Army Research Lab, Simulation and Training Technology Center in Orlando, Florida. He is the founder of the Military Users of Virtual Worlds working group and servers as a virtual world technology advisor to the Office Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Readiness.

Evelyn B Milton

Senior Information Technology Program Analyst at Air University

Ms Evelyn B Milton is the Senior Information Technology Program Analyst at Air University located at Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL.   

Matt Mishkind

Research Psychologist/Program Manager in the Clinical Telehealth (cTH)

Dr. Matt Mishkind is a Research Psychologist/Program Manager in the Clinical Telehealth (cTH) Division of the National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), serving as a subject matter expert in telemental health. Dr.

Greg Reger, PhD | SL: Greeger Muggins

Acting Chief, Innovative Technology Applications Division, National Center for Telehealth & Technology
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Second Life avatar image of Greg Reger

Dr. Greg Reger is a licensed clinical psychologist who completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is a former Army psychologist who served at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and deployed to Iraq with the 98th Combat Stress Control Detachment, 62nd Medical Brigade, Fort Lewis. He subsequently worked for the Center for Deployment Psychology, where he trained mental health providers in deployment behavioral health. Dr.

Bryan T. Wheeler

Associate General Counsel with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)/TRICARE Management Activity (TMA)

Bryan Wheeler serves as Associate General Counsel with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)/TRICARE Management Activity (TMA), Falls Church, VA. His primary duties are serving as counsel to the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and the TRICARE Regional Office-North.