LISA BAIN
Executive Editor, Parenting
Lisa Bain was named executive editor of Parenting in January 1997. She started her career at Esquire, where she worked for ten years, leaving as senior editor. From Esquire, she moved to Glamour, where she was senior articles editor for eight years before joining Parenting.
The articles that she has edited have won numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award (from the American Society of Magazine Editors), the Front Page Award (from the Newswomen’s Club of New York), the Maggie Award (from Planned Parenthood), the Clarion Award (from Women in Communications), and the Best Magazine Feature Award (from the National Women’s Political Caucus). Lisa appears frequently on TV on behalf of Parenting, including spots on TODAY, The Early Show, CNN and Good Day New York.
A graduate of Manhattanville College, she resides in Rockville Centre, New York, with her husband and two daughters, ages 10 and 14.
Carl R. Baum, MD., FAAP, FACMT
Yale University School of Medicine- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
SCOTT CONNER
Vice President, Products and Health and Safety Services
American Red Cross
Scott Conner brings over 30 years of executive marketing and operating experience with several large organizations. Scott has a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. Scott began his career with the Campbell Soup Company working in various sales and marketing capacities including a product line brand manager. He spent the majority of the rest of his career in the franchise restaurant industry – 15 years in Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King serving as Vice President, Marketing; Vice President, Regional Operations and Executive Vice President of Franchising.
On May 4, 1999, Scott was appointed Vice President, Health, Safety and Community Services, for the American National Red Cross. He currently serves as Vice President, Products and Health and Safety Services, a position that entails managing, developing, evaluating, and implementing all American Red Cross Health and Safety programs and services that assist families, communities and workplaces prepare for disasters and other life-threatening emergencies. The position also embraces a critically important endeavor - developing products valued by those who attend our courses and by general consumers. Scott lives in Vienna, Virginia with his wife, Lynda, who is a Fairfax County substitute schoolteacher and an active Red Cross volunteer, both with national headquarters and the Arlington County Chapter.
KRISTIN HARKIN, M.D., FACEP,
Member Of The Safety4kids Advisory Board
Dr. Kristin Harkin is an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She is also part of the core faculty of the emergency medicine residency program at Columbia and Cornell as well as an assistant professor of Cornell University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Harkin has served as the national president of the Emergency Medicine Residents Association, the Board of Trustees of the Emergency Medicine Foundation. She is a National Spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians.
David F. Hyatt
Vice President And Chief Public Affairs Officer
National Automobile Dealers Association
David F. Hyatt is responsible for media and public relations, member and government affairs communications, marketing and publications, both print and online.
Hyatt has an extensive background both in broadcast journalism and government affairs. He was a foreign correspondent for the Voice of America broadcast news network for a number of years. While a news bureau chief in Bangkok, he was nominated for the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He was also a foreign editor and deputy bureau chief in London. Hyatt has traveled on news assignments in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including ABC's "20/20," Wall Street Journal television, and the BBC. He was also executive producer and co-host of a nationally syndicated television series.
After leaving VOA, Hyatt served as the chief lobbyist and public relations counsel to the real estate industry in Northern Virginia before joining NADA in 1999 as executive director of public affairs.
Hyatt has a Masters Degree in Broadcast Journalism and Mass Communications, with a minor in Political Science.
The National Automobile Dealers Association, founded in 1917 and based in McLean, Va., represents more than 20,000 new car and truck dealers, holding over 43,000 separate franchises, both domestic and import.