Domenic Screnci

Title: Executive Director, Educational Media and Technology, Boston University

Degrees: Ed.D., Curriculum and Teaching, School of Education, Boston University; M.Ed., Educational Media and Technology, School of Education, Boston University

Courses:
Teaching Public Health
Co-Faculty
Social and Behavioral Sciences
School of Public Health, Boston University

Visual Literacy and Information Design
Instructional Design Masters Program
Division of Corporate, Continuing, and Distance Education
University of Massachusetts/Boston Campus

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.

Additional Resources:

Articles
2000 –  The International Information and Library Review
Co-Author, “Information and Communication Technologies: Our Experience and Development Outlook”
2000 –  Journal of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Co-Author, “An Internet-based Exercise as a Component of Overall Training Program Addressing Medical Aspects of Radiation Emergency Management”
1996 –  Journal of Medical Systems
Author, “Medical Outreach to Armenia by Telemedicine”

Presentations
InfoComm09: IMCCA Collaborative Conferencing Forum, Orlando, FL
End User Case Studies Panel Presentation
Presentation: “Collaborative Communications at Boston University: An Update”
Moderator: “HD, What happens after we’ve met the limits of our eyes and ears?
Telepresence Day

Online Learning at BU: Innovations, Outcomes and Insights
Provost’s Faculty Advisory Board for Distance Education, Boston University
Presentation: “Online Master of Science Health Communication at Boston University”

Instructional Innovations Conference
Center for Excellence in Teaching, Boston University
Presentation: “Echo360 Classroom Technology Solution at Boston University’s School
of Medicine”

Health Literacy Out Loud, http://healthliteracyoutloud.com
Podcast Interviews with Those “In-The-Know” about Health Literacy
Topic: Visual Literacy

Medical Education for the 21st Century: Teaching for Health Equity Conference
International Association for Health Policy and the Latin American Association for
Social Medicine, Havana, Cuba
Presentation: “Using Communication To Improve Health: A Global Perspective”

Blackboard User Conference Bb World 07, Boston, MA
Presentation: “Anystream Lecture Capture – Content On Demand: A Boston University
School of Medicine Case Study”

American Physical Therapy Association Combined Section Meeting, Boston, MA
Education Section
Co-Presentation: “Health Literacy and You: A Call to Action”

National TB Controllers Association, Atlanta, GA
Promoting Education and Training/Ensuring a Competent TB Workforce
Presentation: “Health Literacy: What do we need to know?”

Advice for New Students: Understand that health communication is a dynamic and evolving discipline. As health care systems change, health information increases and the public’s health needs evolve, an education here will give you the content and develop the skills required to enter, navigate and thrive in the industry. Required, is an academic environment that will cultivate your commitment to the profession and foster the spirit of lifelong learning needed to succeed as a health communicator. Ultimately necessary to excel as a health communicator, is the interest, enthusiasm and commitment to grow and adapt as the field advances.