Jessica Keenan Smith, Founder and Managing Editor of Living Well With Epilepsy, a online resource for people living with epilepsy, has been selected to judge the 2014 Web Health Awards. This will be the fourth year running, Smith has been invited to judge this prestigious award.
About the Web Health Awards
The Web Health Awards, now in its 16th year, is organized by the Health Information Resource Center℠ (HIRC). The projects submitted include: Blog, E-Newsletter, Extranet, Interactive Content, Intranet, Microblog, Microsite, Mobile Application, Portal or Gateway Site, RSS Feed, Social Network, Web-based Ad, Web-based Resource/Tool, Webcast Audio or Video, Website.
Recent Winners of the Awards
Recent winners include AARP, Aetna, Coffey Communications, Edelman, GlaxoSmithKline, Healthwise, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Ketchum, The Mayo Clinic , NIH, UnitedHealthcare, Walgreens, WebMD, and more.
The Results
The 2014 Winter Web Health Award Winners will be announced at http://healthawards.com/wha/index.html. You can watch http://twitter.com/#!/search/webhealthawards for the latest update.
Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.
Thomas Davies
Congratulations Jessica. An honor well deserved. Tom Davies