Mark Blaxill, MBA; Dan Olmsted; Kim Stagliano; & Dr. Andrew Wakefield Age of Autism Editors and Andrew Wakefield

This session focuses on how "The Daily Web Newspaper of the Autism Epidemic" is covering key stories and fighting to balance coverage that is regularly skewed by the mainstream media. No story has been more important -- or more skewed -- than Andrew Wakefield's General Medical Council Hearing, followed by the Lancet MMR study retraction. Editor Dan Olmsted, Managing Editor Kim Stagliano, and Editor at Large Mark Blaxill will discuss AOA's mission in the coming year and discuss with Andy how to continue to tell the truth about autism.
 
Mark Blaxill is the father of a daughter diagnosed with autism, editor at large for Age of Autism, a director of SafeMinds, and a frequent speaker at autism conferences. He writes often on autism, science, and public policy issues for Age of Autism and has published a number of articles, letters, and commentaries on autism in journals such as Public Health Reports, the International Journal of Toxicology, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Neurotoxicology and Medical Hypotheses. He has also been invited to peer review articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Epidemiology, Pediatrics and the International Journal of Toxicology.
 
He received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. In his professional career, he is managing partner for 3LP Advisors, an advisory firm focused on intellectual property transactions. He recently published a business book, The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property (Portfolio, March 2009), and is teaming with Dan Olmsted to write a book on the history of autism due out in September 2010.
 
Dan Olmsted is an award-winning journalist Dan Olmsted is the editor of Age of Autism, a former United Press International senior editor, and a former assistant national editor of USA Today. He is a graduate of Yale and has over 30 years of experience in the field of journalism. Mr. Olmsted has overseen investigations such as UPI's reporting on suicide-related problems with the drug Lariam; and he covered 9/11 and the anthrax attacks. Dan is teaming up with Mark Blaxill to write a book on the natural history of autism.
 
Kim Stagliano is a writer, blogger and mother to three daughters with autism. She and her husband Mark reside in Fairfield County, CT. She is a cum laude graduate of Boston College and worked in advertising and sales promotions prior to staying home to care for her children's intense needs. Well known within the autism community, she has a sense of humor and easy going style that makes her presentation both informative and entertaining. In addition to running the day-to-day activities of Age of Autism, Kim writes for Huffington Post, Betty Confidential and other media.
 
Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath is an academic gastroenterologist. He graduated in Medicine from St. Mary's Hospital (part of the University of London) in 1981, pursuing a career in gastrointestinal surgery with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985, and in 1996 was awarded a Wellcome Trust Traveling Fellowship to study small-intestine transplantation in Toronto, Canada. Discoveries made during his work in Canada led him on return to the UK to pursue the study of inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In 1998, he and his colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital in London reported a novel inflammatory bowel disease in children with developmental disorders such as autism; the condition later became known as autistic enterocolitis. Dr. Wakefield resisted pressure to stop his research on the possible links between childhood immunizations, intestinal inflammation and autism, leaving the Royal Free School of Medicine in 2001. He is involved in many scientific research collaborations in the U.S and abroad, investigations centering on the immunologic, metabolic, and pathologic changes occurring in inflammatory bowel diseases such as autistic enterocolitis, links between intestinal disease and neurologic injury in children, and the possible relationship of these conditions to environmental causes, such as childhood vaccines. During the course of his work on childhood developmental disorders, Dr. Wakefield was increasingly convinced of the need for a research-oriented, integrated bio-medical and educational approach to these disorders, in order to translate clinical benefits for affected children into measurable developmental progress. Dr. Wakefield has published approximately 140 original scientific articles, book chapters, and invited scientific commentaries. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2001; he is medical advisor to the United Kingdom charity Visceral, and sits on the board of the U.S. charity Medical Interventions for Autism.

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