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Jacquelyn Boggess is the Co-Director of the Center for Family Policy and Practice (CFPP). She has worked with the CFPP since its inception in 1995 and is the Project Director for the Center's Legal Assistance Project. The Project is designed to provide legal information and education about child support to low-income parents. Ms. Boggess has expertise in state and federal child support and paternity establishment law and policy, with a particular emphasis on low-income, never-married fathers. She has also developed a Q&A legal resource and co-authored a child support manual for parents and practitioners who have questions and concerns about child support and paternity establishment. Ms. Boggess is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison Law School.

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Joe Kelly has two grown daughters and is the President of the national organization called Dads & Daughters. He is a nationally recognized fatherhood speaker and trainer and the author of Dads and daughters: how to inspire, understand and support your daughter; The pocket idiot’s guide to being an expectant father; The pocket idiot’s guide to being a new dad; Clean: a new generation in recovery speaks out; and The body myth: adult women and the pressure to be perfect. Mr. Kelly is a co-founder of the award-winning New Moon magazine for girls and has a BS in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

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Adjunct Instructor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota. Dr. Maureen Reed has
dedicated her career to delivering better health outcomes for Minnesotans and is a former Medical Director of HealthPartners. Dr. Reed is a nationally sought speaker on health care quality, health care improvement and patient safety. Dr. Reed served on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents from 1997-2005 (and chaired the Board from 2001-2003). In addition to her clinical and administrative expertise, Dr. Reed extended her advocacy and policy skills as Peter Hutchinson’s running mate in Minnesota’s 2006 gubernatorial race. Dr. Reed graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she also completed her residency in internal medicine.

Dr. Sanne Magnan was appointed Minnesota Commissioner of Health by Governor Tim Pawlenty on Sept. 28, 2007. Commissioner Magnan is responsible for directing the Minnesota Department of Health. MDH is the state's lead public health agency, responsible for protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans. The department has approximately 1,300 employees in the
Twin Cities area and in seven offices in Greater Minnesota.

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Prior to being appointed commissioner, Dr. Magnan served as president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement in Bloomington. An independent, non-profit organization, ICSI facilitates collaboration on health care quality improvement by medical groups, hospitals and health plans that provide health care services to people who live and work in Minnesota and adjacent states.

Commissioner Magnan has also served as a staff physician at the Tuberculosis Clinic at St. Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health and a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.

She was also vice president and medical director of consumer health at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota where she was responsible for case management, disease management, and consumer engagement.

Commissioner Magnan also was lead physician at Lino Lakes Correctional Facility and a staff physician at various other clinics. She has served on several boards, including Minnesota Community Measurement.

Commissioner Magnan was named one of the 100 Influential Health Care Leaders by Minnesota Physician in 2004.

Educational Background

Commissioner Magnan holds a medical degree and a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Minnesota. She earned her bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina.

Commissioner Magnan is married and has two daughters.

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Paul Hewett, PhD, CIH, is the founder and president of Exposure Assessment Solutions, Inc. Previously, Paul worked for twenty-five years as an industrial hygienist for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Respirable Disease Studies, specializing in the measurement of pneumoconiosis-producing dusts. His credentials include a doctorate in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health (1991). Paul is also the author of numerous articles and chapters on exposure assessment and statistics for industrial hygienists, as well as a past chair of the AIHA Exposure Assessment Strategies Committee.

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Emergency Readiness Rounds: http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/events/rounds/home.html

Harriet A. Washington has been a fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. As a journalist and editor, she has worked for USA Today and several other publications, been a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and has written for such academic forums as the Harvard Public Health Review and The New England Journal of Medicine. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work. Washington lives in New York City.

This lecture is part of "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine and Back," a series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008.

A series in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race" at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Feb 27 through May 4, 2008:

-February 28: Harriet Washington. "Medical Apartheid."

-March 13: Patricia Heberer, PhD, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of Nazi Euthanasia Victims."

-March 27: Hans-Walter Schmühl, PhD, University of Bielefeld, Germany. "The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics."

-April 17: Mark Soderstrom, PhD, SUNY. "Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota."

-April 24: Margot de Wilde. "On Surviving Medical Atrocity: Testimony of a Survivor."

All lectures and films are open to the public without enrollment. For a complete listing of events, please view this PDF.
To join one of these lectures live, please visit http://umconnect.umn.edu/pubh6800. (Lectures begin at 1pm Central Time on the dates listed.)

Resources
The Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum link to the online overview of elements of the exhibit is www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine

The Science Museum of Minnesota link to the exhibition (Feb. 27-May 4) is www.smm.org/deadlymedicine

The University of Minnesota Program in Human Rights and Health: www.phrh.umn.edu

The University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: www.chgs.umn.edu

full conference audio proceedings: Center for Bioethics Conference on Medical Ethics and the Holocaust, May 17-19, 1989. Convened by Professor Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics (now at University of Pennsylvania). www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/confAudio.html

lecture proceedings: George J. Annas, JD, MPH, Boston University. The Legacy of the Nazi Doctors' Trial for American Bioethics and International Human Rights Law. February 7, 2008. Deinard Memorial Lectures on Law & Medicine organized by the Consortium for Law and Values in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences.

Stephen Feinstein, PhD. "Deadly Medicine/Racial Hygiene." February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS. "From Eugenics to Deadly Medicine to the Holocaust (Docent Training)." February 12, 2008. Science Museum of Minnesota.

Contact
For more information contact Kirk Allison: alli0001 at umn.edu or 612 626-6559.

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