John P. McGovern Lecturership
Established with a donation from the John P. McGovern Foundation

Adam Bosworth
Sunday, May 17, 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

"Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century"

Adam Bosworth is a technology leader and innovator who was instrumental in building numerous technology products, including Google Health, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and BEA WebLogic Integration and Workshop.

After facing serious family challenges with the health care system, Bosworth decided to transition from twenty-five years of building databases and software to applying his knowledge and pursuing his passion for helping people become healthy and well. He founded Keas in 2008 to bring together the latest technology, medical information, and wellness programs to reward consumers for better management of their own health care and inspire and motivate them to live healthier lives.

Prior to starting Keas, Bosworth was vice president of engineering at Google and was instrumental in the development of Google Calendar and Spreadsheets. He then headed Google Health, a personal health information centralization service. Previously, he was senior vice president of engineering and chief software architect at BEA Systems. Prior to joining BEA, Bosworth cofounded Crossgain, a software development firm acquired by BEA in 2001. Known as one of the pioneers of extensible markup language (XML) technology, Bosworth also held various senior management positions at Microsoft, where he was responsible for creating the Microsoft Access PC database and led the team that developed Internet Explorer 4.0’s hypertext markup language (HTML) engine. Prior to Microsoft, Bosworth worked for Borland, where he developed the Quattro spreadsheet application following Borland’s acquisition of Analytica, Bosworth’s first company, which had built a product called Reflex.

Bosworth’s long, successful career in technology began during college at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in history. His strong math skills and great interest in architecture led him to summer jobs at various computer companies in New York. He attributes his unique ability to find simple solutions to complex problems to being dyslexic and having to learn, at a very early age, to read in patterns and create cognitive pictures to understand and process information. He believes this type of visualization allows him solve challenging problems others do not think can be solved.

Janet Doe Lectureship

J. Michael Homan, AHIP, FMLA
Monday, May 18, 9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

"Eyes on the Prize: Reflections on the Impact of the Evolving Digital Ecology on the Librarian as Expert Intermediary and Knowledge Coach, 1969–2009"

The Janet Doe lecturer is chosen for his or her unique perspective on the history or philosophy of medical librarianship. J. Michael Homan, AHIP, FMLA, director of libraries and assistant professor, Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, is known as a teacher, an outstanding leader, and a spokesperson for health sciences librarianship.

Homan has served as president of both MLA (2000/01) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) (2004/05). His other leadership positions in MLA have included managing editor of books (1990–1996), editor of the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (1996–2000), chair of a number of MLA committees and task forces, and a term on the Board of Directors (1986–1989). He was named an MLA Fellow in 2003.

As MLA president, he led MLA to make the Bulletin fully open access online via PubMed Central. He helped design and teach the fi rst MEDLINE training class offered outside the National Library of Medicine and was one of the first medical librarians to use the network on which the current Internet was based (the ARPANET at a MEDLINE training class at Hawaii Medical Library in the early 1970s). He has also helped design and construct two new science libraries: the Corporate Technical Library at the Upjohn Company, a multinational pharmaceutical company in Kalamazoo, Michigan (acquired by Pfizer), and the consolidated Science Library at the University of California–Irvine.

Joseph Leiter Lecturer

Ben Young
Wednesday, May 20, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

"The Impact of Diseases on Hawai'i's Medical History"

Ben Young was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from Roosevelt High School. He received his undergraduate degree in English literature from Milligan College, Tennessee, and completed studies in church history at Pepperdine University. He graduated from Howard University, Washington, DC, with his medical degree and trained in psychiatry at the University of Hawaii Integrated Residency Program.

He was former dean of students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine; former vice president of student affairs, University of Hawaii–Manoa; and chief of staff at Castle Medical Center, Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. He served as chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Castle Medical Center for many years. His last position was executive director of the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence, John A. Burns School of Medicine, from which he retired in 2007. While at the medical school, he was responsible for bringing in over $10 million in funding for several programs in research and training.

He was appointed to former US Surgeon General David Satcher’s Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Violence and was national chairman for deans of student affairs for all medical schools in the United States. For several years, he was president of the National Council for Diversity in the Health Professions. In 1972, he was one of only 10 licensed Hawaiian physicians in Hawaii. He began efforts to increase the numbers of native Hawaiians in medicine and today, because of programs that he started, there are now over 300 Hawaiian physicians. He received many awards including the title of Distinguished Historian by the Hawaiian Historical Society, was named a Living Treasure of Hawaii by the Honpa Hongwanji, and was presented with the Distinguished Hawaiian Award by the Queen Emma Hawaiian Civic Club. His contributions to improving the health of Hawaiians resulted in the Kaonohi Award being given to him by the community organization Papa Ola Lokahi.

In the early 1970s, he helped build the voyaging canoe Hokule`a and was president of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. He was the physician on Hokule`a’s maiden voyage in 1976 from Tahiti to Hawaii and is currently immersed in trying to produce a book on Hawaii’s medical history.

Plenary Session 5

Terry Shintani
Wednesday, May 20, 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

"Reverse Disease with Less Medication"

Terry Shintani received his master’s degree in nutrition at Harvard University and both his medical degree and law degree at the University of Hawaii. He is board certified in preventive medicine. He currently serves as the president of the Hawaii Health Foundation and as the associate chair of the Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He is on the National Advisory Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

In 1989, he started the Waianae Diet Program to help improve the health of the Hawaiian people. In 1993, his program won the highest national award from the US secretary of health and human services. He is the author of eight books including Eat More, Weigh Less Diet; The HawaiiDiet; and The Good Carbohydrate Revolution. He has been featured in Newsweek and on CBS This Morning, CNN News, ABC national radio, and Dateline NBC, and as of 1995, he appears in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. For his many accomplishments, he has been honored by being formally designated a Living Treasure of Hawaii.