ABOUT CROSSKEYS MEDIA
Crosskeys Media
Crosskeys Media is a group of highly accomplished filmmakers with a long history of creating award-winning theatrical films, television programs, documentaries and non-broadcast videos. Crosskeys Media is the producer of Remaking American Medicine and the accompanying national outreach campaign.
Production Team
Executive Producer / Series Producer Frank Christopher is an award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor who has been making documentaries since 1970. Christopher's documentaries have covered a wide range of subjects for PBS. He has also produced non-broadcast projects on such topics as the examination of family planning and primary health care programs in Africa and the benefits of Special Olympics to people living in the inner cities of the United States.
Co-Executive Producer / Series Producer Matthew Eisen has produced and written a wide variety of programs, including a network television movie, primetime documentaries, educational series, public affairs reports, interactive satellite training seminars and live television and radio simulcasts. Eisen's programs on such health care topics as AIDS, drug abuse during pregnancy, prenatal care and child abuse have received extensive distribution, and have been recognized with numerous awards.
Series Producer Marc Shaffer has produced PBS films and network news programs for two decades. His work has explored such pressing social issues as healthcare, corporate accountability, government integrity, criminal justice reform and race relations. Shaffer's credits include Critical Condition, an Emmy-nominated documentary series on American healthcare. Shaffer is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a healthcare media fellowship from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Producer Lee Harvey is an award-winning journalist whose work has focused on public health issues including AIDS, drug abuse, violence and racism. In the early '90s she was the series associate producer and a field producer for The Health Quarterly, an acclaimed PBS series on health policy and AIDS out of WGBH Boston. She subsequently produced two documentaries for PBS including her film on white racist youth "Culture of Hate: Who Are We?" which won the 2003 Silver Baton duPont-Columbia Award.
Associate Producer Janet Saidi is a writer and producer who has covered arts and culture for the Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Times. She has edited alternative community papers such as San Diego's Uptown Newsmagazine and the Gay & Lesbian Times. Saidi spent three years as a co-producer and guest host for the public-radio arts program The Lounge.
Consulting Producer Michael L. Millenson is the author of the critically acclaimed Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age; an independent consultant; and the Mervin Shalowitz, MD Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and general-interest publications, and he was the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
