Ronald D. Adelman, M.D. is Co-Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is also the Director of the Irving Sherwood Wright Center on Aging at Cornell. Dr. Adelman is currently the Director of the Cornell Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care. He is also collaborating with the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) in their medical student geriatric scholars program and is a member of the AFAR public education advisory group. His main research interest is the study of physician-older patient communication. In addition, he is interested in elder abuse and neglect, geriatric medical education, and inter-institutional communication. Present projects include development and implementation of a program to improve geriatric medical education and training; a study to improve communication with patients who are terminally ill; and a study of the initial assessment of cognitive impairment in new geriatric patients.
Terrance L. Albrecht, Ph. D. is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology in the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida and a member of the Medical Interaction Research Group, at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. She received her doctorate in Communication from Michigan State University. Dr. Albrecht is an expert in social marketing and health communications, with considerable experience in the development of broad-based prenatal care interventions. She contributes to the development and implementation of tobacco interventions at TRIP for pregnant and postpartum smokers.
Deborah Ballard-Reisch, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Health Ecology at the University of Nevada at Reno. She received her Ph.D. from Bowling Green University, 1982 in Interpersonal and Public Communication. Her research Interests include: health communication, marital commitment, relationship maintenance and marital satisfaction (in U.S. American, Russian and Tatar couples); women's health, families coping with cancer, perceptions of femininity and masculinity (in U.S. American, Russian and Tatar cultures); narrative theory and the social sciences.
Howard Beckman, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester. Howard is a practicing general internist and geriatrician. Currently he serves as Medical Director of the Rochester Individual Practice Association, a physician organization of 3000 practitioners responsible for the care of 480,000 Blue Choice patients in Rochester, NY. Howard's research interest in physician-patient communication has led to a focus on how work environments shape interactional behavior, and how compassion and humanity can be nurtured in medical training to improve patient outcomes.
Christina Blanchard, Ph.D. is a Clinical Professor in the Cancer Center of Albany Medical School, Department of Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, and a member of the Medical Interaction Research Group, at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. Her research interests include cancer communication and training physicians to accrue patients into clinical trials.
Dale E. Brashers, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Arizona. His research interests include: health communication, effects of HIV illness on communication, uncertainty management, argumentation, research methods. He is currently investigating the role of communication in the management of health and illness for persons living with HIV or AIDS. One project funded by a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research, (part of the National Institutes of Health) involves describing the nature of uncertainty and the mechanisms of uncertainty management for this population. This study will lead to the development and testing of an uncertainty management intervention in which individuals who are newly-diagnosed with HIV will learn communication skills (e.g., self-disclosure, physician-patient communication, information search) from a peer educator. A related research project focuses on the development of self-advocacy skills for HIV-infected individuals.
Michael Burgoon, Ph.D. is the Director of Cancer Prevention Communication Outreach Section, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and
Senior Scientist for the College of Medicine Research Office at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He is an expert in the area of social influence and persuasion and has been conducting research on doctor/patient interaction, and the use of communication interventions to direct behavior change.
Donald J. Cegala, B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison 1968; M.A. Purdue University, 1969; Ph.D. Florida State University, 1972. On the faculty of The Ohio State University since September, 1972. Promoted to Professor of Communication in 1983; appointed Professor of Family medicine in 1997. Author or co-author of five books, six book chapters, and 33 referred journal articles. Past Chair of the Health Communication Division of the National Communication Association. On the editorial board of the following journals: Communication Monographs, Communication Reports, Journal of Applied Communication, Journal of General Internal Medicine. Was recognized as a Distinguished Reviewer of 2000 by the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Interpersonal Communication Series Editor for Hampton Press. Primary research focus is physician-patient communication, with special emphasis on communication skills training for patients.
Betty Chewning, Ph.D. is Director of the Sonderegger Research Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her PhD in Educational Psychology and a post-doctoral program in Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Chewning's research has focused on identifying client needs for health information and support. She has studied how computers can increase health information dissemination to clients in clinics, pharmacy and school settings. She is particularly interested in patient roles and needs in pharmaceutical care, patient-provider communication, and concordance.
Rebecca J. Cline (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University) is an Associate Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Health Science Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. Dr. Cline's recent research focuses on interpersonal communication and health, specifically on HIV/AIDS (prevention, social support and stigma, and gender issues) and on provider-client communication processes (most recently on the roles of the Internet and direct-to-consumer advertising). She has served as Chair of the Health Communication Divisions of the International Communication Association as well as the National Communication Association. Dr. Cline has more than 20 years of experience in research as well as in developing health communication curricula and teaching courses in health communication. She joined the Health Science Education Department at University of Florida in 1999 where she teaches an array of courses in health communication. Dr. Cline's experience includes authorship of more than 40 research articles and book chapters and more than 80 presentations to professional organizations.
M. Robin DiMatteo is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Robin received her B.S. degree in Mathematics and Psychology from Tufts University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from Harvard University. She conducts research on the provider-patient relationship and focuses primarily on patient adherence/compliance, physician-patient communication, and patient satisfaction. She is currently working on quantitative reviews of three decades of published research on patient adherence, using meta-analytic techniques to shed light on contradictory findings in the literature and to establish the strength of the relationship between adherence and some clinically manageable factors such as depression and social support. Robin is also interested in the role of the physician in inspiring patients to take control of their health and to follow good health habits.
Tom Ferguson, MD, is editor and publisher of The Ferguson Report, the industry newsletter of online health. He has been a pioneering advocate of self-help and self-care for more then twenty years. In his book Megatrends, author John Naisbitt cited Dr. Ferguson's work as representing "the essence of the shift from institutional help to self-help." Dr. Ferguson received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. He founded the influential journal Medical Self-Care and the SelfCare Catalog (selfcare.com) a direct retailer of tools which help people take care of their health. He served for many years as medical editor of The Whole Earth Catalog. Dr. Ferguson is Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Texas Medical Sciences Center in Houston. He is a senior associate at Boston's Center for Clinical Computing, a medical computing think-tank associated with Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Richard M. Frankel, Ph.D. is Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and Director of the Primary Care Institute of Highland Health Systems in Rochester, New York. In addition, he is the Co-Director of the University of Rochester Program for Biopsychosocial Studies. After completing his Ph.D. in Sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, he was a post- doctoral fellow in qualitative approaches to mental health research at Boston University. In 1986, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Social Medicine Communication Studies at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He has also held Visiting Professorships in Holland, Great Britain, Canada, Finland, Norway and the United States. Dr. Frankel has lectured and published extensively on face-to-face communication in a number of contexts and recently completed a multi- year research project funded by the Agency for Health Care Policy Research exploring communication aspects of medical malpractice.
Patricia Geist-Martin received her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University in 1985. She is a Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University where she teaches organizational communication, health communication, ethnographic research methods, and gender & organizational communication. Her research interests focus on negotiating identity, ideology, & control in organizations, particularly in health and illness. She is just completing her third book, Communicating Health: Personal, political, and cultural complexities, (co-authored with Eileen Berlin Ray and Barbara Sharf) (available 2002). Through stories this book captures the complexities of communicating in diverse health contexts ranging from provider-patient relationships to organizational health systems such as HMOs and media campaigns for preventative care. Her second book, co-edited with Linda A. M. Perry, is entitled Courage of Conviction: Women's Words, Women's Wisdom, published in 1997. The volume presents the stories of women from all walks of life who, through courage and conviction, have broken silences and inspired others to speak, to listen, to be heard. Her first book, Negotiating the Crisis: DRGs and the Transformation of Hospitals (with Monica Hardesty) published in 1992 examines communication among nurses, physicians, and hospital administrators as they negotiate a controversial change in hospital policy and structure. Geist-Martin has published over 40 articles and book chapters covering a wide range of topics including adaptation in a merging organization, decision making in medical groups, argument in teacher-administrator bargaining, empowerment for disabled persons, responding to sexual harassment, controversial television programming, social support strategies among, and cross-cultural communication. Her work appears in a regional, national, and international journals such as Communication Monographs, Management Communication, Quarterly, Health Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Southern States Speech Journal, Small Group Behavior, as well as in edited volumes such as Qualitative Research: Applications in Organizational Communication, Intercultural Communication: A Reader, Case Studies in Health Communication, Communication in Context: Studies of Naturalistic Groups, Conceptualizing Sexual Harassment as Discursive Practice, Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual, and Advances in Medical Sociology.
Dean H. Gesme, Jr, is a Medical Oncologist in private practice as Managing Partner at Iowa Cancer Care in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dr. Gesme has been the Assistant Principal Investigator for the Cedar Rapids CCOP which conducts community-based cancer research through a grant from the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Gesme also serves as President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS). He is the Chairperson of the Bylaws Committee for the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) as well as an Oncology Representative for the American Medical Association CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) Advisory Board. Dr. Gesme is a past President of the Iowa Division of the American Cancer Society and has served on the Board of Directors at various levels within this organization. Dr. Gesme has been engaged in patient and physician education efforts for over 10 years, working to develop quality cancer care from the patient's perspective.
Geoffrey H. Gordon, M.D., received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of California, Davis and M.D. from the University of California, Irvine. After residency in internal medicine at the University of California, Irvine, he completed two years as Instructor and Fellow in Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Rochester. For thirteen years he taught interviewing and communication skills with students and residents in the Section of General Medicine at the Portland, OR VAMC and the Oregon Health Sciences University. In July 1997 Geoff joined the Bayer Institute For Health Care Communication as Associate Director for Clinical Education and Research. He is a Charter Fellow of the American Academy on Physician and Patient, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and sees patients one day a week at the West Haven VAMC. His research interests are teaching communication skills and psychosocial aspects of medical care.
Michele G. Greene, Dr.P.H. is a Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and an Adjunct Professor of Public Health in Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Greene conducts research on the physician-patient relationship and has a particular interest in physician-older patient communication. Her Cancer Control Research projects include an investigation of physician-patient communication about cognitive impairment and a study designed to improve physicians' communication with patients who are terminally ill. Dr. Greene is also interested in medical education and women's health issues. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law and has served as a consultant to the American Federation for Aging Research. Dr. Greene is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Dan O'Hair, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Oklahoma. His teaching and research interests focus primarily on communication in health organizations, and provider-patient relationships. He has served as the director of seventeen doctoral dissertations and thirteen master's theses. He has published over fifty research articles in communication, business, management, and psychology journals and volumes, and has authored and edited eight books in the areas of communication, business, and health. He has been the principle investigator for several grants from business, non-profit, and government institutions totaling more than $3 million. He has served on the editorial boards of ten research journals and is the current editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research, published by the National Communication Association.
Judy Hall, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University. Judy is the current Editor of Patient Education and Counseling and Past Editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior (1992-1996). She has published widely about doctor/patient communication, nonverbal communication, interpersonal sensitivity, and communication and gender. She is a noted expert in the field of health psychology.
Eva Kahana, Ph.D., is the Robson Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Sociology Department, and Director of the Elderly Care Research Center at Case Western Reserve University. She earned her doctorate in human development from the University of Chicago. The awards she has received include the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Distinguished Mentorship Award; Mary E. Switzer Distinguished Fellowship; Ohio Distinguished Gerontological Researcher; Distinguished Scholar Award, Section on Aging & the Life Course of the American Sociological Association (ASA); and Polisher Award of the GSA for her outstanding contribution to applied gerontology. She is past chair of the ASA Section on Aging & the Life Course. She has published extensively in the area of stress, coping and health of the aged.
Sherrie Kaplan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University, School of Medicine. Sherrie has conducted groundbreaking research, along with her husband, Sheldon Greenberg, on patient participation in health care and health outcomes. Her recent work focuses on children communicating in health care.
Harrison "Lee" Rainie, Director, Pew Internet and American Life Project, Lee Rainie is the former managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. During his 12 years at the magazine, he edited in several departments including the magazine's online operations, its national news section, and its culture and trends section. Over the years, eight of the stories or special editions of the magazine that he edited were finalists for the National Magazine Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of daily journalism's Pulitzer Prize, and other stories he has overseen have won the top prizes for education, science, health, environmental, and religious coverage. He has appeared on numerous television news shows as an analyst and commentator on national affairs, including ABC-TV's "Nightline,"CBS-TV's "48 Hours" and "Face the Nation," NBC-TV's "Meet the Press," each of the network's morning shows, and a variety of news and feature programs on cable TV.
Gregory Makoul, PhD, is director of the Program in Communication & Medicine and associate professor of Medical Education at Northwestern University Medical School. He also holds faculty appointments in the Department of Medicine and Northwestern University's Department of Communication Studies. Dr. Makoul is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Health Care Practice, as well as an associate member of Northwestern's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and a fellow of the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies. His research, conducted both in the United States and England, focuses on communication, decision making, and health promotion in medical encounters, as well as communication skills teaching and assessment. He authored the "white paper" on communication for the Association of American Medical College's Medical School Objectives Project, convened international conferences on communication in medicine, and contributed to published consensus statements about communication and medical education. Dr. Makoul earned his PhD in Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
Amelie G Ramirez, DrPH. Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Center, Baylor University College of Medicine. She also serves as Associate Director for community research and Co-Program Leader for the Cancer Prevention and Health Promotion Program at the San Antonio Cancer Institute. Dr. Ramirez was appointed by President Clinton as a member of the National Cancer Institute's National Cancer Advisory Board. She is Principal Investigator of the National Hispanic Leadership Initiative on Cancer, a program funded by the National Cancer Institute. She is one of the members selected to serve on the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine and Commission of Life Sciences and has served in various other capacities in the field of cancer research. She was appointed by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health. In 1996, she was given the Sarah Mazelis Award for Health Promotion by the American Public Health Association. Dr. Ramirez received a B.S. degree from the University of Houston, and M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health.
Debra Roter, DrPH, is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine. Dr. Roter received her Doctorate from Johns Hopkins in l977 and has been on the faculty at Hopkins since 1979. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Society for Public Health Education's Beryl Roberts Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to Health Education Research, the American Academy on Physician and Patient Award for Outstanding Research Contributing to the Theory, Practice and Teaching of Effective Health Care Communication and Related Skills, and the Johns Hopkins Golden Apple Award for recognition of excellence in teaching. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals and various grant review panels and foundation commissions. Dr. Roter's primary research focus is in the study of physician-patient communication. She has developed a method of process analysis applied to audiotapes of medical encounters which has been widely adopted by researchers, both nationally and internationally. Her studies include basic social psychology research regarding communication dynamics and interpersonal influence, as well as health education and health services research. Her research includes clinical investigation of patient and physician interventions to improve the quality of communication and enhance its positive effects on patient health outcomes, and educational applications in the training and evaluation of teaching strategies to enhance physicians' communication skills. She has authored over 100 articles and two books on the subject of doctor-patient communication: Communicating With Medical Patients (with M. Stewart), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. l989, and Doctors Talking to Patients/ Patients Talking to Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits.(with JA Hall), Westport, CT: Auburn House, l992.
Daniel Z. Sands, M.D., M.P.H., completed fellowships in clinical computing and general internal medicine before joining the faculty of both the Center for Clinical Computing and the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University, a medical degree from Ohio State University, and a master of public health degree from Harvard School of Public Health. He has been with Beth Israel and the Center for Clinical Computing since 1991 and is currently Clinical Director of Electronic Patient Records and Communication for CareGroup Healthcare System, an integrated health delivery system based in Boston.
He is a board-certified internist with an active primary care practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 1998, Dr. Sands received the President's Award from the American Medical Informatics Association in recognition of his leadership in co-authoring the first national guidelines for the use of e-mail in patient care. He is also an internationally recognized lecturer and consultant in the area of clinical computing and patient and clinician empowerment through the use of computer technology.
Rick Street, Ph.D., Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Speech Communication at Texas A&M University, where he also serves as Research Professor of Medicine. He also serves as Director of the Program in Leadership and Health Care Policy, Center for Public Leadership Studies, Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M. Rick has a distinguished record of research and publication in health communication, focusing on doctor-patient communication and compliance. His recent work examines health promotion and interactive technology.
Marisa Weiss, MD, President and Founder of the non-profit educational organization, Living Beyond Breast Cancer and Founder of BreastCancer.Org. Dr. Weiss is a new member of the National Cancer Institute's Director's Consumer Liaison Group. She is a practicing oncologist in Philadelphia, specializing in breast cancer. Dr. Weiss is the author of the acclaimed book Living Beyond Breast Cancer (Random House, 1997 and 1998).
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