Faculty
Kristen Pufahl
Kristen Pufahl works as a Registered Dietitian in the Nutrition Services program at Jewish Family & Children’s Service in Waltham, Massachusetts. She develops nutrition programs, provides individual nutrition counseling, and educates staff, clients, and the community about healthy eating practices. She has also worked as a teaching fellow at Boston University, a high school nutrition teacher, an inpatient dietitian at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, an outpatient dietitian at Children’s Hospital, and a private practice nutrition consultant.
Professor Pufahl received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, after which she worked in the information technology consulting field. She received her Master of Science in Nutrition degree from Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and completed her dietetic internship at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. She recently was awarded the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) Nutrition Fellowship in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Children’s Hospital Boston.
Professor Pufahl is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Massachusetts Dietetic Association.
Domenic Screnci
Domenic Screnci is the Executive Director for Educational Media and Technology at Boston University. Dr. Screnci serves the university as an educational technologist, instructional systems designer and integrator, instructional designer and a producer of curriculum materials for traditional and new-media based educational projects.
As a faculty member, Dr. Screnci teaches an instructional design course at Boston University’s School of Public Health and is on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts/Boston in their master’s level Instructional Design Program. Dr. Screnci created and is currently teaching a Visual Literacy and Information Design course. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Screnci has presented and published papers on the use of digital imaging, teleconferencing in the health care environment, health and visual literacy. Dr. Screnci is currently the Vice Chairman of the International Multimedia Collaborative Communications Alliance and is a member of the, United States Distance Learning Association, Association for Educational Communication and Technology, Health Science Communication Association, Society for Applied Learning Technology, and the International Visual Literacy Association as well as a number of other academic and professional organizations.
Stephen Quigley
Professor Quigley just completed his tenth year teaching public relations at Boston University and his fourth year as faculty coordinator of the University’s public relations program. Steve serves as co-coordinator of the Master of Science in Health Communication program along with Dr. Domenic Screnci.
In addition to teaching, Steve is a public relations consultant whose work is concentrated in the areas of media relations, public affairs, community relations, and crisis communication. Prior to launching a public relations consulting business, he was a partner with the Boston public relations firm of Schneider & Associates. He has provided strategic counsel and created public relations campaigns for a broad range of national and international clients.
Tom Fauls
Professor Fauls is a marketing communications consultant who’s been an ad manager for a Fortune 500 company, a principal in his own integrated marketing agency, an agency exec and currently a specialist in interactive marcom.
His agency career began with two years as an AE before becoming a copywriter, creative director and executive creative director. He has worked at NWAyer, Leo Burnett, TLK (now Euro RSCG), JWT, FCB, Cramer-Krasselt, et al. Experience includes work in all media — general, direct and interactive — and on many brands including United Airlines, various Kraft brands, Sears, Motorola, Kemper, ABC/Chicago, GM MasterCard, MCI, GE Capital, medical/pharma accounts, Frito-Lay, Southwest, Coors, Kellogg’s, McDonalds, Discover Card, HP, Zenith, software accounts, Activision and multiple P&G brands.
Prof. Fauls is a co-author of The Media Revolution Edition of Advertising & The Business of Brands.
Christie Hager
Christie Hager is Chief Health Counsel to Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Salvatore F. DiMasi. Previously, she served as Deputy Director of the Division of Public Health Practice at Harvard School of Public Health. She was appointed by the Speaker of the House to the Massachusetts Special Commission to Study the Reduction or Elimination of the Contribution by Employers to the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund in 2006. As Director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum from 1999-2003 at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School, she was appointed as the first Senior Fellow. Chris has served as Chair of the American Public Health Association’s Health Law Forum, and on the APHA Governing Council, as well as the Assistant Director of National Conference of State Legislatures Brandeis University Health Chairs Project. She is also a Past President of the Massachusetts Public Health Association. From 2004-2006 she is a past Co-Chair of the Health Law Section of the Boston Bar Association, and is now Chair of its Ad Hoc Committee on Health Reform. From 2007-2008 she served as Staff Vice-Chair of the Health Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures. She has held research positions on the staff of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Joint Committee on Health Care and at the New England Journal of Medicine. She has also served as a Senior Health Policy Analyst for the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Chris is appointed to the faculty in Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and at Suffolk University Law School, where she teaches courses on health law and state health policy. She has also held faculty positions at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Her work has appeared in such publications as the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Law and Medicine.
Chris holds an A.B. from Smith College, a M.P.H. from the Boston University School of Public Health, and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. She is admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Pauline C. Hamel
Pauline C. Hamel, Ed.D, PT has been teaching in the Master of Science in Health Communication program at Boston University since its inaugural semester in the Fall of 2008. Prior to this, she was a Clinical Professor and Director of Clinical Education in the Physical Therapy Department at Northeastern University’s Bouve´ College of Health Sciences, in Boston, MA., where she was responsible for doctoral level clinical education internship placements, student mentoring, advisement, contract negotiations, and recruitment/development of physical therapy clinical sites across the country. She continues to teach as adjunct faculty in Northeastern’s Health Sciences Department. For over 25 years, Dr. Hamel’s professional career has included numerous roles as professor, clinician (physical therapist and rehabilitation/ geriatric specialist), administrator, public speaker and consultant in both academia and the health care industry.
Wayne W. LaMorte
Dr. LaMorte received his MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and received a PhD in biochemistry and an MPH from Boston University. He has been a faculty member at Boston University for more than 20 years and currently teaches three courses in the School of Public Health: “Introduction to Epidemiology,” “The Biology of Public Health,” and “Introduction to Public Health”. He is currently the Assistant Dean for Education at Boston University School of Public Health, and he is also the director of the MD-MPH dual degree program, the BS-MPH dual degree program, and the undergraduate public health minor at Boston University. Dr. LaMorte also teaches Evidence-based Medicine in the Boston University School of Medicine.
Jo O’Connor
Professor O’Connor was formerly the Director of Public Relations at the Boston Garden and the FleetCenter, handling all the media details of the arenas’ closing and opening ceremonies, respectively.
She then became the Director of Advertising, Special Events & Publicity for the Boston Celtics, creating and executing the events of the team’s 50th anniversary yearlong celebration. After which, she became the Director of Marketing & Public Relations for the Wang Center for the Performing Arts for both the Wang and the Shubert theatres. Following that, she was named the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for WZLX-FM in Boston.
Professor O’Connor continues to do outside public relations and human resources consultancy and is also a media agent. Her areas of expertise are media relations, special events management, community relations and organizational communication.
