Michael Villaire named 2015 winner of prestigious Cecilia and Leonard Doak
Health Literacy Champion Award
Michael Villaire, the CEO of a nationally
renowned nonprofit dedicated to advancing health literacy and providing
community health services, will be awarded the 2015 Cecilia and Leonard Doak
Health Literacy Champion Award, Health
Literacy Missouri (HLM) announced today.
Villaire, who holds a master's degree in organizational leadership and management from the University of La Verne in California, heads up the Institute for Healthcare Advancement (IHA) in La Habra, California.
IHA is a not-for-profit public benefit charity that works to empower people to better health through innovative health literacy solutions. Its easy-to-read self-help health books have been used by state governments, community groups and hospitals across the U.S. IHA produces the longest-running annual continuing education conference for healthcare professionals, focusing on programs and solutions to improve health literacy.
Villaire, who joined IHA in 2000, directs the organization's mission and vision, and coordinates all health literacy activities. He plans and produces IHA's annual continuing education health literacy conference. READ MORE !
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