Nadine Guillaume is a Lead Systems Engineer for Scientific
Atlanta in the area of Architecture for Cable Broadband Access. During her 15+ year of experience in the telecommunications industry,
she greatly contributed to the creation of de facto industry standards. She began her career in 1988 at TELECO, a major telecommunications
service provider in Haiti as a lead network planning engineer and
represented TELECO in many Caribbean and Latin America seminars. From 1989 to 2000, she held numerous positions within Bell Laboratories
and AT&T in the areas of network architecture, systems engineering,
and project management in voice services, switching technologies,
circuit/data integration and related protocols. Nadine has received
numerous awards within the AT&T Bell Labs community in recognition
of her contribution to the corporation, including the AT&T Strategic
Patent Award which created new business paradigm for AT&T by allowing
the company to enter Local Service Market. She graduated from
Northeastern University cum laude with a BS in Electrical Engineering.
Her post-graduate work consists of an MS in Electrical Engineering
from Cornell University.
Maurice D. Geiger is nationally recognized
voice for court reform and expert on court management. Before
founding the Rural Justice Center, Geiger was: the first Director
of innovation and development for the Federal Judicial Center, the
founding Director of the office of Management information for the
U.S Dept. of Justice (where he pioneered the use of computers to establish
patterns of practice n civil rights cases), and a judicial andadjudication reform specialist for the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration. Geiger was a fellow of the Institute for Court
Management, is a graduate of Georgetown Law Center and has practiced
civil, family and criminal defense law as well as serving as
an elected general jurisdiction prosecutor. He has developed and presented
dozens of judicial education programs and has taught at the Institute
for Court Management and the National Judicial College. His
relevant publications include: Justice in the Felony Courts (with
E.C.Friesen), Rural Courts:The Neglected Majority (with K.Fahnestock),
Rural Courts: An Agenda for Action ( with J.Daffron), Case Flow in
Rural Courts; Time To Justice, (with K Fahnestock and The Law:
A Burial Ground for the poor. Between 1998-2004 he worked or visited
in Haiti at least once a year.
Dr. G. Stephane Philogene is an assistant Director for Policy and Planning in the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in the Office of the Director at NIH. Dr. Philogene is responsible for major activities in the areas of science policy, strategic planning, evaluation, and management of OBSSR program activities. His responsibilities also include the formulation of the OBSSR budget, establishment of policies, regulation, and procedures for OBSSR program operations. Prior to joining the OBSSR in 2002, he served as the Associate Director for Policy in the NIH Office of Loan Repayment and Scholarship (OLRS) where he led the effort to evaluate the NIH Loan Repayment and Undergraduate Scholarship Programs. Between 1997-2003, he visited Haiti and provided technical assistance to civil society organizations in planning and evaluation of projects.. Previously, he was a policy researcher in the Social Security Administration's Office of Policy and a program analyst in the NIH OLRS. His major research efforts and publications have been in the areas of efficiency and productivity analysis, public policy, evaluation of biomedical research programs, and disability insurance policy. He has received a number of awards including the NIH Award of Merit. Dr. Philogene holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in applied economics from the University of Florida and a doctorate in public policy from the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
Philippe Guillaume, M.D. has over 10 years experience in Orthopaedic. Throughout his career, he has been helping the poor and crippled children of Haiti at St Vincent hospital and Hospital General, the largest state run hospital in Haiti. As a former Vice-President of the Haitian medical association in Port-au-Prince, he worked with prominent figures such as Professor Kaye Wilkins of the Texas Orthopaedic Group, and organizations like The Kansas Orthopaedic Group, the Mayo Clinic and others. Dr. Guillaume was a fellow in adult orthopaedics at Cohin Hospital and pediatric orthopaedics at St. Vincent De Paul Hospital in Paris. He was also a fellow in sports medicine and artroscopic surgery at the Hospital for Joint Disease, New York.
