Judges

The following professionals served as judges for the 2004 World Wide Web Mature Media Awards program. Please do not contact the judges directly for questions related to the awards program. You can address general awards program questions to info@seniorawards.com.

Gary Crooms is a Dallas financial planner and President of Senior Information Services of America®, a long term care financial planning firm that specializes in assisting seniors and their families with late life financial and estate planning issues. Gary is also the co-founder of two monthly periodicals, The Senior News Source and the North Texas Health Source — published for seniors, senior caregivers, and healthcare professional in the North Texas region.

In 2004, Mr. Crooms earned the designation of Registered Financial Gerontologist (RFG), with distinction, from the American Institute of Financial Gerontology. With this specialized education, Gary is able to provide solutions to clients over a broad perspective of aging issues — biology, psychology, sociology and demography — while developing financial plans that adequately address the effects that increased longevity has on finances.

Judith Degado is Director of the Macular Degeneration Partnership, a nonprofit educational organization. The Partnership educates patients and their families about age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of vision loss and blindness among seniors. She is Editor of AMD Update and AMD.org, an online educational resource.

Judi has spent three decades in the healthcare field, in Ophthalmology, Pathology, Internal Medicine and Cardiology. She was Chief Administrative Officer of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Science at UCLA School of Medicine for 10 years. In Ophthalmology, she has managed clinics and practices at the University of Chicago, Doheny Eye Institute and the American Eye Institute. As a consultant, Judi has worked with physicians to design their professional offices, manage mergers, structure human resource programs and transition to managed care.

Ms. Delgado has been a member of the American College of Healthcare
Executives, Internet Healthcare Coalition and American Society on Aging.
Offices include President and founding member of the Pathology Assembly of the Medical Group Management Association, Secretary of the Ophthalmology Group within the American Academy of Ophthalmology and numerous voluntary posts. She has been a certified Ophthalmic Assistant, scientific writer and editor and research grant administrator. Judi lectures on macular degeneration to senior groups and professionals and is an advocate for low vision rehabilitation.

Janire Hopkins is a Web Producer with Johnson, Bassin & Shaw, in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Jennifer E. Rabalais has been employed with Southwest Area Agency on Aging and Disability for almost 5 years. As the Management Information Specialist, she supervises and provides technical support for several software programs used by contracted providers and staff for reporting to the Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability. In addition her duties include: providing programming support to 10 Senior Centers and other contracted providers, evaluating reports, compiling statistics and performing Quality Assurance Reviews on contracted providers.