Ellen J. Belzer is president of Belzer Seminars and Consulting, LLC, a Kansas City-based company that specializes in negotiation, management, and communication programs and services for health care professionals.

Belzer's seminars on negotiation, conflict management, communication, and related topics have been conducted for thousands of physicians, nurses, administrators, and other health professionals throughout the United States. She also serves as a professional mediator to hospitals, managed care organization, community/migrant health canters, state health departments, rehabilitation facilities, and a variety of health-related associations nationwide. She has served on the faculty of the MCH Leadership Skills Training Institute since its inception. Ellen has also has served as consultant, trainer, and mediator to various state Title V programs.

Belzer was an instructor of communications courses at Avila College in Kansas City for six years, and also taught course for the University of Kansas. Her article on negotiation, communication, and management topics have been featured in Working Woman, Family Practice Management, and Hospital Practice. In addition, she has written several manuals and texts for health care organizations.

Belzer received her BA degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, her MPA degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and has received additional training in negotiation through intensive university-based programs. Prior to starting her consulting and seminar practice in 1986, she was an executive with a national medical specialty association for 12 years where she received a broad background in medical socioeconomic.

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This project has been based at:
College of Public Health, University of South Florida

Our staff includes:
Donna J. Petersen, ScD, MHS, Project Director
Cathy Chadwick, MPH, Project Coordinator

The project has been funded by:
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resource and Service Administration, Public Health Service, US Department of Health Resource and Service Administration

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