Grady Watts, Vice President

For the past twenty years, Grady Watts has produced and directed documentaries and more recently, Internet web applications. His programs have been broadcast nationally and distributed extensively to non-broadcast audiences as well. In recent years, his work has focused increasingly on health education, promoting patient empowerment and self-management of chronic illness through coordinated video, print and Internet campaigns.

His three part series "Well into Your Future" is currently airing on PBS. Funded by the National Institute for Mental Health, the series focuses on the mental health challenges of aging, including depression, substance abuse, and caregiving for Alzheimer's disease. One part of the series is hosted by University of Michigan professor Robert Kahn, co-author of the landmark MacArthur Foundation study on aging in America, and the bestseller "Successful Aging". The series has received the 2003 "Freddie" award.

Currently, he is in production on a two-part series for PBS on self-management of cardiovascular disease, which is funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.

Mr. Watts was educated at Harvard University, B.A.and the Stanford University Graduate School of Communication, M.A. and lives with his wife and two daughters in Washington, DC.