Two IUSM videos have received prestigious Telly Awards.

Reversing Trends: Smoking Cessation Techniques for the Health Care Professional received a Bronze 2000 Telly Award
and a 1999 Video Communicator Award, a national award which recognizes outstanding work in the communications field.

Moderated by IUSM Nicotine Dependence Program Co-director Stephen Jay, MD, chairman of the Department of Public Health, Reversing Trends was researched and written by Anna McDaniel, DNS, of the IU School of Nursing; produced and directed by Diane Hook; and edited by Norm Legge of the Creative Services facility of the Medical Education Resources Program (MERP)/Continuing Medical Education at IUSM. The video was a collaborative effort with Healthcare Excel, a
federally authorized organization that oversees Medicare and Medicaid programs in Indiana.

Riley Today, a videotape medical journal sponsored by the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, received a
Bronze Telly Award.

Produced three times a year, Riley Today keeps 3,000 Indiana pediatricians and family practitioners informed of the latest advances in pediatric medicine and surgical care. The video journal is hosted by Patricia Keener, MD, assistant dean for medical service-learning, and clinical professor of pediatrics, and produced by MERP's creative services section.

The Telly Awards were founded in 1980 to showcase and give recognition to outstanding non-network film and video productions.