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Janet Tobias is a media executive specializing in healthcare as well as an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer. She directed most notably No Place On Earth in 2012, a docudrama about the Verteba & Priest’s Grotto caves in the Ukraine used by Jews escaping the Holocaust. Her screenplay for the film, co-written with Paul Laikin, was a finalist for the 2014 Award for Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild Of America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/30/entertainment/la-et-mn-wga-awards-2014-complete-list-nominees )〕 Tobias is currently directing ''Unseen Enemy'', a documentary on the threat of pandemics in the 21st century set to premiere in late 2015, and to air on CNN in 2016. == Career == After growing up in the Midwest and graduating from Yale University, Janet Tobias started her television career at CBS’s 60 Minutes as Diane Sawyer’s associate producer. She then moved to ABC’s Prime Time Live where she produced, wrote, and directed both domestic and international stories ranging from a case study of organ donation to a portrait of the Kuwaiti royal family after the Gulf War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.noplaceonearthfilm.com/the-film/filmmakers/ )〕 In 1992, Tobias moved to Dateline NBC where she worked as a national producer, supervising pieces on medical ethics and the home health care industry. Following Dateline, she worked as an editorial producer of ABC News' Law and Justice unit where she developed stories for ''Nightline'', ''20/20'', and ''World News Tonight''; she was also the executive producer for PBS's Emmy Award-winning program ''Life 360''. In 2001, she founded a television and film production company called Sierra/Tango Productions with former ABC anchor Forrest Sawyer. Sierra/Tango has produced over a dozen documentaries on social issues ranging from medical ethics to the life of teenagers in America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sierratangoproductions.com/about/ )〕 Tobias is also the founder of Ikana Health, which focuses on the mobile web, social media and video as it relates to healthcare information and improving patient outcomes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ikanahealth.com/about/ )〕 In 2009, Tobias was appointed to the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences. In 2010, she became an adjunct professor of Medicine in the Department of Health Evidence & Policy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she works on preventing diabetes in minority populations.〔 In 2014, she became a research professor of Global Public Health in New York University's College of Global Public Health.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://giph.nyu.edu/faculty/janet-tobias.html )〕 Ms. Tobias is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America and currently resides in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janet Tobias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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