• “A Sociological Analysis of Hospice Care in the United States,” Eighth Annual Alpha Kappa Delta Sociological Research Symposium, Richmond, VA (February 18)
• “Techniques of Direct and Cross Examination,” Continuing Legal Education Lecture, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York, NY (December 14)
• “Cross Examining the Physician in Medical Malpractice and Product Liability Cases,” workshop on trial techniques given by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, New York, NY (March 18)
• “The Conversation Analytic Approach to the study of Courtroom Examination,” guest lecturer for a sociolinguistic graduate level class (Professor Lindsey Churchill) at the City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY (April 21)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Patient Compliance Problems,” Rounds and Conferences at the Department of Internal Medicine, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (June 7)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Patient Compliance Problems,” Department of Medicine, Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (June 8)
• “Linguistic Solutions for Patient Compliance Problems,” house staff conference, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY (October 14)
• “Improving Communication with the Surgical Patient,” house staff conference, Department of Surgery, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY (November 24)
• Testimony at Public Hearing on Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) and the future of Medicare. Hearing conducted by The Advisory Council on Social Security, Washington, DC (January 17)
• “Linguistics in Medicine,” house staff conference, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC (January 19)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Problems in History-Taking,” house staff lecture, Department of Medicine, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY (February 24)
• “Linguistic Technology in Computerized Medical Interviewing,” Continuing Medical Education Seminar (1 CME credit), Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine - New England Medical Center, Boston, MA (April 25)
• “History-Taking,” special lecture, Department of Medicine, Brookdale Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (July 8)
• “Medical Interviewing as a Collaborative Event,” Eighth International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, Boston, MA (August 8)
• “Discourse Patterns of Patients and Physicians in the Rheumatology Out-patient Clinic,” Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY (December 27)
• “Linguistic Technology,” Continuing Medical Education Seminar for Primary Care faculty members, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (February 9)
• “Improving the Quality of Health Care,” WELV 1370 AM, Ellenville, NY (Ulster County) (August 6)
• “Discourse Analysis: An Overview” The Nashville Linguistic Circle and University Lectures Committee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (October 16)
• “Kinesiology and Verbal Communication,” International Seminar on Cross Cultural Communication, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (October 17)
• “Linguistic Solutions to Problems in History-Taking,” Continuing Medical Education Lecture, Medical Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (October 18)
• “Conversation Analytic Approach to Medical History-Taking,” Continuing Medical Education Lecture, Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (October 26)
• “How To Get Your Doctor To Listen to You” Canyon Ranch Spa, Tucson, AZ (November 18)
• “Improving Medical History-Taking Skills,” Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO (November 19)
• “How to Give a Better Medical History,” TV6 Talk Show (local cable channel 47), Ellenville, NY (Ulster County) (February 14)
• “Linguistic Screening for Radiology Dictation,” Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO (March 27)
• “Bridging the Communication Gap between Doctors and Patients,” Pawling Health Manor, New Hyde Park, NY (May 8)
• “How to Describe Medical Symptoms to Your Physician?” Pawling Health Manor, New Hyde Park, NY (May 10)
• “Cross Examining the Medical Witness,” Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (June 1)
• “The Special Problems of Interviewing for Broadcast Investigations,” panel discussion with John Stossel (ABC News 20/20) and Mark Nykanen, (NBC Nightly News), Investigative Reporters and Editors, 10th Annual National Conference, Chicago, IL (June 21)
• “Linguistic Techniques for the Courtroom,” Continuing Legal Education Lecture, General Jurisdiction Course, The National Judicial College, Reno, NV (July 22)
• “Questioning the Expert Witness,” Continuing Legal Education Lecture, The National Judicial College, Reno, NV (July 25)
• “Linguistic Techniques for the Courtroom,” Trial Advocacy Training Course for 2nd year law students, University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, Idaho (August 17)
• “Eliciting Expert Testimony,” Trial Advocacy Training Course for 2nd year law students, University of Idaho College of Law, Moscow, Idaho (August 18)
• “Doctor-Patient Communication,” Part I, New Age Health Farm, Neversink, NY (October 13)
• “Doctor-Patient Communication,” Part II, New Age Health Farm, Neversink, NY (October 14)
• “How To Cross Examine the Medical Expert Witness” guest lecturer at a trial techniques course (Professor Ivan Schneider) at Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY (November 19)
• “Using Linguistic Techniques for More Effective Interviewing,” guest lecturer at Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism (Prof. Melvin Mencher's class), New York, NY (December 9)
• Presentation on the use of linguistic analysis to prepare questions for cross examination to litigation attorneys at Weil, Gottschal, and Manges, New York, NY (January 27)
• “Interviewing the Orthopedic Patient,” house staff lecture, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA (June 16)
• “Developing a Linguistic Instrument for Lie Detection,” Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, VA (March 2)
• “Why Linguistics is Important for the Design of a Non Fictional HAL?” SpeechTEK 2001 (October 26)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A Data Mining Tool to Speed Up Wiretap Analysis” AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society) (May 10)
• “Advanced Natural Language Understanding” (moderator of panel), SpeechTEK 2002 International Exposition and Educational Conference (October 30)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Intelligence Method for Speeding Up Wiretap Analysis” Second Annual Research Symposium of Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas, Dallas (March 11)
• “Filling the Global Communications Gap” (panelist at Plenary session). Accelerating Global Understanding, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the LISA Forum USA, Washington, D.C. (December 9)
• “Building Standards for Global Speech Applications” (workshop panelist). Accelerating Global Understanding, Annual Meeting of the General Assembly of the LISA Forum USA, Washington, D.C. (December 10)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: A New Natural Language Understanding Method for Performing Data Mining of Help-Line Calls and Doctor-Patient Interviews” Presentation at the 1st International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Cognitive Science, ICEIS 2004, University of Portugal (April 13)
• “Sequence Package Analysis: a New NLU Method for Improving Speech Capabilities in Spoken Language Understanding Systems” AT&T, VoiceTone Project (May 24)
• “Mining for What’s Missing: How to Find What is not in the Speech Application’s Vocabulary” SpeechTEK 2004 (September 15)
• “Using a New Method of Natural Language Intelligence for Performing Wiretap Analysis” Policy Sciences Center Annual Institute at Yale Law School (October 23)
• “Medical Informatics: A Realistic Look at How IT Can Improve Delivery of Health Care in a Global World” Moderator of technical panel presentation at the Information Technology: New Generations Conference, ITNG 2008, Las Vegas, NV (April 9)
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