The following professionals served as judges for the Spring 2003 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.

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.

Mark Foster has been a fine artist, a graphic designer and art director for 35 years. Holding a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, Mark has worked all over the USA and has specialized in corporate communications for the Health Care Industry for the past 10 years. With a concentration of work in corporate identity and brad development, Mark brings added interest to his work by exploring his love for typographic form and image making. "I have an intense interest in the development of information systems for the good of mankind and the aspect of light as the source for goodness in the Universe."

Marcia Horner, MS has been a medical librarian for 20 years. She has been using the Internet to help consumers find good health information since 1992. She currently serves on the Health Literacy Task Force of the Medical Library Association and is researching ways that the Internet can help offset the effects of low literacy on health status.

Michael Levine is the Director of Development & Public Relations for Village Shalom, Inc. and the Village Shalom Charitable Supporting Foundation in Overland Park, Kansas. Michael is responsible for the day-to-day operation and the Charitable Supporting Foundation including all communications, marketing and donor development activities and ongoing campaigns. In addition, Michael is a member of the senior management team and oversees all communications, marketing and volunteers for Village Shalom - A newly built continuing care retirement community.

Michael has more than 10 years experience in marketing and communications for not-for-profit and faith-based organizations throughout the Midwest. Michael is a member of many professional organizations including the Public Relations Society of America, Association of Fundraising Professionals, National Association of Planned Giving Professionals and the Kansas City Council on Philanthropy.

Sandra Lieberman became an entrepreneur in the field of gerontology in 1988 after a family caregiving experience. She has been the owner of an adult daycare center, provided personal business services for the elderly and started a non-profit organization disseminating aging information to the public. Presently Sandy serves as the Director of Content for SeniorPlanet.com and is developing a new content provider service, and a Website, AgeBeat.com, to provide content and consulting services to senior-oriented Websites.

Jennifer E. Rabalais has been employed with the Southwest Tennessee Development District, Southwest Tennessee Area Agency on Aging & Disability for 3 1/2 years. She is administrator of the SAMS database in her area. Upon her arrival 3 funded programs and 6 users had partially implemented the SAMS software program. It is now fully operation at 18 funded program locations with 31 users. She is responsible for Quality Assurance Reviews of contracted providers using SAMS and Programming Report Submissions to the Tennessee Commission on Aging & Disability.

Jennifer L. Watson, MA is a seasoned health communications and marketing professional, with more than 10 years' experience conducting communications and outreach campaigns targeted to health care providers and consumers, seven of these years working on projects for the Federal Government. She currently serves as Outreach and Promotion Specialist for the Alzheimer's Disease and Referral (ADEAR) Center, a service of the National Institute on Aging. In this role, she works to position the ADEAR Center as a leading AD information source and to promote the Center's products and services among health care providers, families, caregivers, researchers, and the public. Ms. Watson promotes the ADEAR Center through a variety of channels, including publications and materials, media, the Web, and conference exhibits, aw well as developing contacts at relevant national organizations.

Prior to joining JBS, Ms. Watson worked for six years as a health communications expert at the California Medicare peer review organization (CMRI). There she planned strategy, implemented and managed statewide social marketing campaigns under a contract with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to improve health care quality for California's Medicare beneficiaries. Her achievements at CMRI included developing and leading successful campaigns to boost flu immunization rates among African Americans and Latinos, increase physician recommendation of preventive services to Medicare patients, and enhance hospital compliance with quality treatment assistance "tool kits" for hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers. As Communications Manager, Ms. Watson led cross-functional teams, supervised senior staff, planned and oversaw project budgets, managed multiple vendors, and ensured quality and timeliness of communications projects.

Ms. Watson holds a master's degree in public policy and women's studies from the George Washington University, and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Stanford University.