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Public Health Campaign Management
Client: American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Develop and manage a campaign to encourage the AAFP's 94,000 members to ASK their patients about tobacco use then to ACT to help them quit.
Promotional Healthcare Writing
Client: Ready, Set, FIT!
Assignment: Write and submit for publication an article describing and promoting a fitness curriculum for third and fourth grade students.
Healthcare Writing: Practice Management
Client: American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Write and submit for publication an article on reimbursement for treatment of tobacco dependence.
Healthcare Writing: Hospitals
Client: Child Health Corporation of America through Dobies Healthcare Group
Assignment: Write a white paper to help children's hospitals prepare for JCAHO unannounced surveys.
Healthcare Writing: Physician Referral
Client: The University of Kansas Hospital
Assignment: Write a direct mail piece that highlights the physicians, services and technology at the hospital's Heart Rhythm Center.
Interactive
Client: Patient Education Concepts
Assignment: Write content for a 150-page website that is used by ophthalmic practices around the country. Help the practices customize their sites and train them on the use of the content management system.
Interactive
Client: The University of Kansas Hospital
Assignment: Define navigation and write content for the Kansas Poison Control Center.
Corporate Identity
Client: Brookside Counseling
Assignment: Create a logo and a look for the company materials that convey the professionalism and the open, caring atmosphere of the practice.
Patient Education Materials
Client: American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Write, design and print a packet of materials to educate potential patients about safe driving decisions.
Patient Education Materials
Client: American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Write and manage the design and distribution on a brochure to warn parents of the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
Editing and Design
Client: American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Edit and design a 110 page resource manual for physicians who are starting a new practice.
Design
Client: Sokkia Corporation
Assignment: Design a catalog cover, booklet covers, t-shirt and a banner to promote Sokkia's surveying equipment.
Broadcast - Public Service Announcements
Client: Tar Wars
Assignment: Write, produce and distribute a public relations video and a series of public services announcements to raise awareness of the Tar Wars program.
Outdoor
Client: Action-Sports
Assignment: Take a photograph and design a billboard promoting the store's selection of Kansas City Chiefs' jerseys.

CME Podcasts and Webcasts
Client:
American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Develop and produce a series of webcasts and podcasts healthcare professionals can participate in for continuing medical education credit.
Video Writing, Directing and Production
Client: American Academy of Family Physicians
Assignment: Write and produce a series of videos to be used by family physicians who are creating patient-centered medical homes.

 

AAFP Recruiting Practices for Smoking Cessation Pilot

June 22, 2010 - This news article provides an overview of a performance improvement project that will be managed by Mary Theobald. More...
 
Theobald to Create Resources for Healthy Communities CollaborativeTM

January 15, 2011 - Mary Theobald has been hired to create a series of toolkits to be used in a unique performance improvement project to help family physicians enhance the case they provide to patients with cardiovascular disease. The toolkits will offer how-to-information, links to resources and exercises on:
  • Performance Measurement: Using Data to Improve
  • Team Development
  • Patient-Centered Practice Redesign
  • Leadership & Change Management
  • QI Coaching

The toolkits will be integrated into a Healthy Communities CollaborativeTM curriculum modeled after the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series Collaborative. The project will launch in the fall of 2011 in 32 family medicine practices in Indiana and Wisconsin. Read the press release...
 


New Online Videos Put Physicians on Practice Redesign Path

December 9, 2009 - This news article highlights three videos written and produced by Mary Theobald.
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AAFP Garners Second Grant for Children's Books on Health, Well-Being

October 23, 2009 - Based on high demand for the book "F is for Fitness" Mary Theobald has been hired to write three additional children's books.
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Walmart Prepares Employees for Flu Season

August 15, 2009 - Walmart has contracted with Mary Theobald to write a series of internal communications to prepare their more than two million employees for flu season. More...


New Videos to Focus on Patient Centered Medical Home

July 1, 2009 - Mary Theobald has been selected to write, direct and produce a series of three videos about the Patient Centered Medical Home. More...
 
Kansas City on the Cheap Blog Featured in the Kansas City Star

March 13, 2009 - Jeneé Osterheldt called Mary a recessionista in her column about the new Kansas City on the Cheap blog. More...
 
New Blog Helps Readers Enjoy Kansas City’s Attractions, Concerts, Restaurants and Bars “On the Cheap”

March 10, 2009 - Motivated by the current coupon-clipping climate, local writer and marketer Mary Theobald has started a blog to help her Kansas City area friends and neighbors get out and about on the cheap. More...
 
American Academy of Family Physicians and MetLife Foundation Collaborate to Bring New Approach to the Problem of Childhood Obesity

September 2, 2008 - Mary Theobald has been asked to manage a new initiative to help family physicians promote physical activity, nutrition and emotional well-being. The projects are designed to counter the national childhood obesity epidemic. More...

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