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Hey, I wore a flapjacket many times at the border between Croatia and Bosina during the war in Yugoslavia mid-90s. So this site's name is especially interesting to me!

November 6: Just received Mom's Choice Gold Children's Book Award 2012 in the Imagine It category! As of June 2012, Sunbelievable has earned 6 awards: Indie Excellence, 2 Purple Dragonfly and 2 Royal Dragonfly Awards for Illustration.

Illustrating is a new adventure for me. My work history doesn't hint at taking this direction. But here goes!

• Owner of J&S Healthcare Consulting, LLC, 2003-present.

• Over 20 years experience as a medical/science writer with publications in major journals including Pediatrics and Family Medicine, and health care digests, including Physicians’ Weekly: http://www.physiciansweekly.com/

• Creator of promotional video shows for organizations to feature programs and services www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1QGS7X4Kp4

• Prepared NIH health services research proposals—over $5m in funding awarded.

• Over 10 years as faculty member at Dartmouth Medical School. Over 3 years as faculty member at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

• Taught quality improvement seminars extensively in all Republics of the former Soviet Union on behalf of the U.S. Agency for International Development/American International Health Alliance: http://www.aiha.com/en/. Authored Clinical Practice Guidelines Manual for international health care professionals: http://www.aiha.com/en/WhatWeDo/PracticeGuidelines_CPGPI.asp

• Instructor of writing skills workshops for health care and other professional/business fields.

• Owner: Story Quest Publishing, LLC, since 2011: www.storyquestpublishing.com

• Creator of book trailers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kY-5FWpjNA

• Author and Illustrator of Sunbelievable—a children’s educational and picture book for ages 4-8: www.sunbelievable-book.com. © 2011 Jo Ann Kairys

• Featured in LivingInMediaNJ magazine, May/June 2011: www.livinginmedia.com/article/joann_kairys.html


Specialties

Children's literature author/illustrator, medical/science writer, editor, writing skills workshop instructor, grant writer

Hey, I wore a flapjacket many times at the border between Croatia and Bosina during the war in Yugoslavia mid-90s. So this site's name is especially interesting to me! November 6: Just received Mom's Choice Gold Children's Book Award 2012 in the Imagine It category! As of June 2012, Sunbelievable has earned 6 awards: Indie Excellence, 2 Purple Dragonfly and 2 Royal Dragonfly Awards for Illustr... More