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Screaming Up The Charts, 10/5/07

We are still busy and it shows! Leaping up 31 spots on the ColoradoBiz Magazine's "Top 250 Private Companies," Klein Buendel now ranks in the 187th position compared to other Colorado companies. In addition, KB is ranked 60th in the "Top 100 Women-Owned Businesses" in Colorado. But don't worry, we're not going to let it go to our heads. According to Mary Buller, "Ranking isn't as important as doing what we set out to do. We make well-researched and well-designed health education materials, and our success tells as much about the need for those materials as it does our ability to make them." However you look at it, KB's success is great news for all of us.

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KB Updates News Section, 3/15/07

Yes, it is true. We are actually updating our news section of the web site with this article. The fact of the matter is that we have been too busy DOING our work over the last few months that we haven't had time to TELL anybody about what we've been working on. (Think about that the next time you see a completely up-to-date company website.) So let's bring things up to date, shall we? Here's what has been going on over the last few months that we haven't had time to squawk about:

Kudos!

KB's Research Director David Buller, PhD was awarded Colorado Cancer Researcher of the Year by the Colorado Cancer Coalition. Way to go Dave! You've put in a lot of work over the years. Congratulations!

Also, did you see the previous release about KB receiving The Tibbets Award in Washington D.C.? If not, be sure to read about it below.

New Projects Funded

Live Fit On Campus: Expanding on the successful 5 a Day On Campus Phase 1 Project, KB is now building the Live Fit On Campus program to help teach college age students how to make healthier nutrition and physical activity choices at the crucial time when most of them are making those choices on their own for the first time. Project Lead: Mary Buller, MA

The Colorado Comprehensive Skin Cancer Prevention Program: In a partnership with the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC), KB will implement a multi-channel, statewide skin cancer prevention program. The program will promote sun protection and thorough skin self-examination to fulfill several objectives in the Colorado Cancer Plan. It will combine a statewide campaign with community components for schools, health care clinics, and worksites, using effective interventions and reach White and Hispanic adults and children in all regions of Colorado. KB will manage the entire project, produce project materials for and implement the school and worksite components, and conduct the evaluation of the program. KB will also assist UCDHSC in the production and implementation of the clinic-based programs. Project Lead: Dave Buller, PhD

Balancing InTake and Expenditure (BITE): Funded by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, BITE will be a virtual hub for planning, management and evaluation of physical activity and nutrition programs in local communities. Online integrated program planning, project management and evaluation tools can help improve the effectiveness of public health efforts in the United States and enable broader community participation in all stages of program planning and implementation. Project Lead: Snip Young, PhD

Study of the Naturalistic Dissemination Process of an Evidence-based Program: Despite the availability of proven primary prevention health programs, organizations have been slow to adopt these programs. Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, investigators from KB, Kaiser Permanente, and Healthy EverAfters will examine important organizational factors that predict the adoption and maintenance of a proven physical activity program currently being offered in healthcare clinics, worksites, community organizations and fitness facilities. Project Lead: Andrea Dunn, PhD

DoSomethingOnThe.net: Developed with a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, DoSomethingOnThe.net is a prototype program designed to provide an arena for tomorrow's creative marketers to expand their skills with social marketing techniques. Colorado community college students will use the program to learn social marketing techniques and then receive an assignment to apply those skills to a designated health awareness message project. We hope to build on this program in the future to help educate tomorrow's health educators as well as develop more avenues for health interventions. Visit www.dosomethingonthe.net to see what it is all about. Project Leads: Ilima Kane and Bryan Giese

New Staff

With all the new work, we needed to bring in some more people. Here are the most recent people to join our hearty crew:

  • Steven Kish - Programming Technician
  • Lucia Liu - Statistician
  • Deva Montgomery - Research Assistant
  • Katie Neal - Research Technician

New Publications

In the December 14, 2006 edition of the Golden Transcript newspaper, Mary and Aimee were featured on the front page of the Business section in a full page interview about Klein Buendel. Soon after, Steve Burkholder, the Mayor of Lakewood, Colorado , stopped in to our offices to see the great things that are being created in his town.

"Good for you!" you say. "But is there more? It HAS been a while," you say. More we shall give you. Not only did KB staff publish 20 peer reviewed papers this year (with another five in press as of this writing), senior scientists David Buller, PhD and Erwin P. Bettinghaus, PhD were guest editors of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine's special journal issue "Diffusion and Dissemination: Increasing Physical Activity in World Populations" for October, 2006. How about those apples, eh? Our keyboards are on FIRE! Here's the official list of all those articles.

  1. Buller DB, Buller MK, Reynolds KD. A survey of sun protection policy and education in secondary schools. J Am Acad Dermatol 2006;54(3):427-432.
  2. Andersen PA, Buller DB, Voeks, JH, Borland R, Helme D, Bettinghaus E, Young WF. Predictors of Support for Environmental Tobacco Smoke Bans in State Government. Am J Prev Med April 2006;33(3):340-351.
  3. Yaroch AL, Reynolds KD, Buller DB, Geno CR, Maloy J. Validity and reliability of sun safety measures in middle school children. Health Educ Behav 2006;33(3):340-351.
  4. Reynolds KD, Buller DB, Yaroch AL, Maloy J, Cutter GR. Mediation of a middle school skin cancer prevention program. Health Psychol Sep 2006;25(5): 616-625.
  5. Buller DB, Taylor, Buller MK, Powers, Maloy J, Beach. Evaluation of the Sunny Days, Healthy Ways sun safety curriculum for children in kindergarten through fifth grade. Pediatr Dermatol 2006;23(4):321-329.
  6. Buller DB, Young WF, Fisher KH, Maloy JA. The effect of endorsement by local opinion leaders and testimonials from teachers on the dissemination of a web-based smoking prevention program. Health Educ Res 2006.
  7. Dunn AL & Bettinghaus EP.Afterword: Diffusion and dissemination for increasing physical activity in world populations. Am J Prev Med. 2006 Oct;31(4 Suppl):S94-6.
  8. Young WF, Montgomery D, Nycum C, Burns-Martin L, Buller DB. Web-based technical assistance and training to promote community tobacco control policy change. Health Promot Pract, 2006 7: 78-85
  9. Buller DB, Reynolds KD, Yaroch A, Cutter GR, Hines JM, Geno CR, Maloy JA, Brown M, Woodall WG, Grandpre J. Effects of the Sunny Days, Healthy Ways Curriculum on Students in Grades 6 to 8. Am J Prev. Med 2006;30(1):13-22.
  10. Helme DW, Borland R, Young W, Nycum C, Buller DB. The development and validation of a coding protocol to measure change in tobacco control newspaper coverage. Health Promot Pract 2006 7:103-109
  11. Dearing JM, Maibach EW, Buller DB. A Convergent Diffusion and Social Marketing Approach for Disseminating Proven Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion. Am J Prev Med Oct 2006;31(4 Suppl):S11-23.
  12. Buller DB. Diffusion and dissemination of physical activity recommendations and programs to world populations. Am J Prev Med. 2006 Oct;31(4 Suppl):S1-4.
  13. Wilcox S, Dowda M, Griffin SF, Rheaume C, Ory MG, Leviton L, King AC, Dunn AL, Buchner DM, Bazzarre T, Estabrooks PA, Campbell-Voytal K, Barlett-Prescott J, Dowdy D, Castro CM, Carpenter RA, Dzewaltowski DA & Mockenhaupt R. Results of the first year of Active for Life¨: Translation of two evidence-based physical activity programs for older adults into community settings, Am J Public Health 2006;96(7):1-9.
  14. King AC, Marcus BH, Ahn D, Dunn AL, Rejeski WJ, Sallis JF, Coday. Predictors of maintenance of physical activity change among primary care patients: The Activity Counseling Trial, Health Psychol. 2006 May;25(3):336-47.
  15. Heesch KC, Masse LC, Dunn AL. Using Rasch modeling to re-evaluate three scales related to physical activity: enjoyment, perceived benefits and perceived barriers. Health Educ Res 2006;21(1):i58-i72.
  16. Dunn AL, Resnicow K, Klesges LM. Improving measurement methods for behavior change interventions: opportunities for innovation. Health Educ Res 2006;21(1):i121-i124.
  17. Carmack Taylor CL, deMoor C, Smith MA, Dunn AL, Basen-Engquist K, Nielsen I, Pettaway C, Sellin R, Massey P, Gritz ER. Active for Life after cancer: A randomized trial examining a lifestyle physical activity program for prostate cancer patients. Psycho-oncology 2006 Oct;15(10):847-862.
  18. Carmack Taylor, CL, deMoor C, Basen-Engquist K, Smith MA, Dunn AL, Badr H, Pettaway C, Gritz ER. Moderator Analyses of Participants in the Active for Life after Cancer Trial: Implications for Physical Activity Group Intervention Studies. Ann Behav Med 2007;33(1):99-104.
  19. Green LW, Orleans CT, Ottoson JM, Cameron R, Pierce JP, Bettinghaus EP. Inferring Strategies for Disseminating Physical Activity Policies, Programs, and Practices from the Successes of Tobacco Control. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Oct. 2006;31(4 Suppl):S66-82
  20. Slonim AB, Callaghan C, Daily L, Leonard BA, Wheeler FC, Gollmar CW, Young WF. Recommendations for Integration of Chronic Disease Programs: Are your Programs Linked? Accepted Preventing Chronic Disease, April 2007. Publications in press
  21. Woodall WG, Buller DB, Saba L, Zimmerman D, Waters E, Hines JM, Cutter GR, Starling R. Effect of Emailed Messages on Return Use of a Nutrition Education Website and Subsequent Changes in Dietary Behavior. J Med Internet Res, in press.
  22. Scott MD, Buller DB, Andersen PA, Walkosz BJ, Voeks JH, Dignan MB, Cutter GR. Testing the Risk Compensation Hypothesis for Safety Helmets in Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding. Injury Prevention, in press.
  23. Buller DB. Using internet in community intervention studies. In Z. Feng (Ed.), Encyclopedia of clinical trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wileys & Son, in press.
  24. Buller DB. Interventions to modify skin cancer related behaviors. In Bowen D. & Croyle R (Eds.), Handbook of behavioral science and cancer. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, in press.
  25. Young WF, McGloin J, Zittleman L, Westfall J. Colorectal Screening in Northeast Colorado. Journal of Rural Health (accepted).

Whew! After all that we are tired, but excited about all the fun things going around here. Talk to you at the next update!

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Klein Buendel Wins National Award, 9/26/06

Klein Buendel, Inc., a women-owned firm from Golden, Colorado, has been selected as one of the winners of the 2006 Tibbetts Award. Owners Mary Buller and Aimee Giese received the award on September 26, 2006 in Washington, DC.

Named for Roland Tibbetts – the person acknowledged as the father of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program – these prestigious, national awards are made annually to those small firms, projects, organizations and individuals judged to exemplify the very best in SBIR achievement.

Klein Buendel is one of only 57 companies in the U.S. to receive the Tibbetts award this year.

Senator Ken Salazar took time to meet with Ms. Buller and Ms. Giese in Washington and congratulate them on their accomplishments (photo attached).

Klein Buendel specializes in the development of effective and engaging research-based programs and multimedia products to motivate targeted audiences to act on health information that impacts their lives.

In 2002 (Klein Buendel’s first year of business), its combined grant, contract and sales revenue was roughly $650,000. In 2006, it is predicted to total $3.4 million, an increase of 423% in just 4 years.

Ms. Jayne Reiter, Director of the Lakewood Small Business Development Center, a SBIR/STTR assistance program, nominated Klein Buendel for the award.

The Small Business Technology Council (SBTC) hosted the awards ceremony. Since its inception in 1995, SBTC (sbtc.org) has played a crucial role in promoting congressional legislation and federal regulations that aid small, technology-based companies—including re-authorization of the SBIR program.

The complete list of winners can be found at tibbettsawards.org.

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2006 Colorado Cancer Conference, 8/11/06

On August 9th and 10th, Klein Buendel was a Supporting Sponsor of the Colorado Cancer Conference for the sixth year in a row! This year's conference was titled "Pathways To Action" and KB was proud to be part of the action. Senior Scientist, Dave Buller, PhD. received the Outstanding Researcher/Research Project Award; Project Managers, Ilima Kane and Lee Stiffler-Meyer, were honored to conduct breakout session presentations; and all of the staff who attended enjoyed making valuable contacts and forging new collaborations for our current and future projects. If you would like copies of the slides for Ilima's presentation titled "The Internet, Your Audience and How To Design Effective Interventions: Examples from Tobacco, Nutrition, and Sun Protection," you can download them here.

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If you would like copies of the slides for Lee's presentation titled "5 A Day at Work - Extending Cancer Prevention Communications with an Internet Worksite Health Promotion Program," you can download them here.

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American College of Sports Medicine, 6/03/06

On Friday, June 2, Dr. Andrea Dunn and Ilima Kane presented a workshop at The America College of Sports Medicine Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The workshop was entitled “Using Technology to Increase Physical Activity and Nutrition: A Workshop on Using Multimedia” and was attended by a standing-room only crowd. Due to the great response, many attendees did not receive the handouts from the presentation. If you would like a copy, you can download them here.

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