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PANELISTSDr. Jason Kilmer received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washingtonin 1997, and currently works at the University of Washington in both a student affairs anda research capacity. Dr. Kilmer is a Research Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and BehavioralSciences, continuing a 20-year affiliation with colleagues at the Addictive Behaviors ResearchCenter and the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors. In this capacity, he is aninvestigator on several studies evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol anddrug use by college students. He is also the Assistant Director of Health and Wellness forAlcohol and Other Drug Education in the Division of Student Life, working with different areasacross campus (including health, counseling, Greek life, residence life, and athletics) to increasestudent access to evidence-based approaches.Pat Kohler, Administrative Director, has over 29 years of progressive professional experienceand documented success in Washington state government. She has been with theWashington State Liquor Control Board since January 2002. She serves as the WashingtonState Liquor Control Board Administrative Director. Her responsibilities include overseeingthe daily operations of the agency. She provides vision, direction and leadership to the retail,purchasing, enforcement, licensing, distribution, human resources, information technologyand financial services. Pat is a Certified Public Accountant.David Latham is the Director of Information Technology for the Alabama Alcoholic BeverageControl Board. Mr. Latham has worked for the state of Alabama for 29 years serving in theDepartment of Human Resources, the state’s central Information Technology authority, andsince 2005 the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Mr. Latham has worked in the IT field for morethan 36 years including state government, retail, and health insurance experience. Mr. Lathamis a graduate of Troy University with a degree in Computer and Information Science, and holdsa Certified Public Manager certification. Prior to joining the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,he was appointed as the first Information Security Officer for the state of Alabama.Chris Liu returned to the Washington State Liquor Control Board as Director of Retail followinghis appointment as Director of Washington’s Lottery. As Director of Retail from 2001 – 2005,Liu led the establishment of five new stores; the first to be constructed in 23 years. He alsoserved as the chief architect for the agency’s Retail Business Plan that has provided a 10 yearretail vision for the future. Prior to joining the state, Liu served as the General Manager forSam’s Club International, a division of Wal-Mart International, helping to establish Wal-Martand Sam’s Club in different countries around the world. Prior to Wal-Mart, Chris held GeneralManager and Sales positions in a number of national and international companies includingAuto Parts Club, Price Savers Club and Southland Corporation (7-Eleven). Liu holds a BS inBusiness Marketing from the University of Hawaii.Sarah Mart is a public health researcher and advocate whose recent projects includeresearching alcohol industry political spending and influence in California; alcohol promotionand related policies on Facebook; corporate exploitation of the small, California family winerynarrative; and industry efforts to dismantle state control of alcohol sales. Before joiningAlcohol Justice in January 2009, she directed university prevention & health promotiondepartments at Syracuse University, the University of San Francisco, and The University ofMontana-Missoula, where she wrote & led funded projects to reduce high-risk drinking incollege student populations. Ms. Mart prompted institutional refusal of alcohol athleticssponsorship at one institution, and debated the founder of the Amethyst Initiative regardingthe minimum legal drinking age. She consulted for the U.S. Department of Education’s HigherEducation Center for Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention for many years, andremains a reviewer for public health and alcohol-related scientific journals. Her work has beenpublished in the Journal for Global Drug Policy and Practice, Substance Use and Misuse, and SanFrancisco Medicine, with an article in Addiction forthcoming.Pat McKee is a Senior Research Coordinator in the Division of Epidemiology and CommunityHealth at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. She has managed severalresearch studies and co-authored a number of publications on high-alcohol beverages,their association with crime and neighborhood disorder, and community efforts to reduceconsumption. Her research interests include creating healthy communities via public policyand environmental change. Pat has a master’s degree in public policy from the U of MN’sHumphrey School of Public Affairs. Prior to her work with the University, she was an urbancounty planner, managing public health and housing resources for the Minneapolis area.Tim Murphy began his career with the German wines and spirits company A. Racke GmbHin Mainz where he was a Key Account Manager in their International Division. After Racke,he spent ten years at Diageo, where he worked in a number of sales, trade marketing, andbrand marketing roles in Europe and North America. Tim joined The Absolut Spirits Company(ASCI) in February 2003. He spent four years as Brand Director of the ABSOLUT Vodka Portfolio,before being named Vice President of Marketing in April 2007. In that role, he oversaw allconsumer marketing functions for the full portfolio of ABSOLUT Spirits Company brands. Timjoined Pernod Ricard in 2008 when that company acquired ABSOLUT, and he oversaw thetransition of ABSOLUT and the other ASCI brands into Pernod. In January 2010 Tim was namedVice President, Marketing Innovation at Pernod Ricard. In this role, he is tasked with developingnew marketing functions to drive incremental value for the organization. The current scopeof his role includes Meida, Multicultural Marketing, New Product Innovation, Digital / SocialMedia and Integrated Media Planning. Tim is a graduate of the University of Rochester andresides in Hoboken, New Jersey with his wife Ann, his daughter Caroline and his son Owen.PANELISTSVirginia (Ginger) Mackay-Smith is the Director of the Division of Systems Development forSAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the lead Federal agency on alcohol anddrug abuse prevention. Under SAMHSA’s Strategic Initiative for the Prevention of SubstanceAbuse and Mental Illness, Ms. Mackay-Smith directs SAMHSA/CSAP’s activities supportingthe substance abuse prevention grant programs with resources and technical assistance inplanning, implementing, evaluating, and promoting strategic, data-driven prevention programsat the community and State levels. Before joining CSAP, Ms. Mackay-Smith directed a nationalresource center for campus-based substance abuse and violence prevention, and prior to thatserved in a variety of positions in higher education directing prevention, health promotion, andacademic success programs on campus. She began her career with five years at the NationalInstitutes of Health learning program development and evaluation from the ground up. Ms.Mackay-Smith earned her Masters degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.Timothy Naimi M.D., M.P.H is a physician who is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics,and Preventive Medicine. He did his epidemiology training with the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention (CDC), and was a Senior Epidemiologist with CDC’s Alcohol Teamfrom 2002-2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Boston University Schools ofPublic Health and Medicine, and is a physician at Boston Medical Center. His areas of interestin alcohol include binge drinking, youth drinking, and alcohol control policy.Emily Novick is a Public Health Advisor in the Materials Development Team, Division ofSystems Development for SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), thelead Federal agency on alcohol and drug abuse prevention. The Materials DevelopmentTeam oversees all of SAMHSA/CSAP’s health communications and outreach programs toadvance the use of prevention science throughout the nation. Currently, Ms. Novick serves