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Gary Selnow
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Gary W. Selnow
Gary Selnow is a professor of communication, working with the Edelman Institute at San Francisco State University, and he is Director of WiRED International, a nonprofit organization that provides medical information, education and communications in developing regions. Selnow is the author/co-author of seven books including Society’s Impact on Television, High Tech Campaigns, Electronic Whistle-Stops: The Impact of the Internet on American Politics, and most recently The People, Press and Politics of Croatia.
Selnow was twice a Fulbright Scholar, first in Austria and most recently at the University of Zagreb in Croatia; he recently completed his third year on a Fulbright Senior Scholar review panel. Selnow has lectured at the London School of Economics, the University of Warsaw, the Free University of Amsterdam and other universities in Europe. Selnow coordinated a national communication program for a White House task force and served as a research methodologist for the U.S. Information Agency. He is a consultant with the U.S. Department of State and has consulted for NBC Television and the National Academy of Sciences. Selnow was a pilot and information officer for the U.S. Air Force. He was a regular commentator on Public Radio International's Marketplace program.
Selnow started WiRED International while he was a Fulbright senior scholar in Zagreb. Now, the non-profit organization has healthcare education facilities on several continents and has become a leader in providing education and information to medical schools and to grassroots populations in developing countries. WiRED, the only NGO providing telemedicine programs in Iraq, has received grants from the U.S. Department of State, the National Institutes of Health, the Medtronic Foundation, The Christopher Reeve Foundation, Pfizer and others. WiRED has formed partnerships with Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, the University of California, San Francisco Medical School and 12 other medical schools to conduct telemedicine education programs in Iraq and Eastern Europe. WiRED collaborates with the Edelman Institute at San Francisco State University.
Selnow received the 2004 President’s Medal at San Francisco State University. He earned his bachelors degree in technical writing at Rutgers University and his masters and doctoral degrees in communication and psychology at Michigan State University.