Presenters
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Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD is Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at the University of California, Davis. His research includes cross-national comparative epidemiologic research on patterns and correlates of mental disorders and substance abuse in general population samples; he has developed and tested culturally sensitive mental health diagnostic instruments. His applied research program has focused on identifying unmet mental health needs, associated risks, and protective factors to reduce mental health disparities in underserved populations. |
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Robert A. Bell, PhD is Professor of Communications at the University of California, Davis. He has a long-standing interest in communication and social influence processes. He has applied this interest in the domains of public health campaigns, prescription drug advertising, and physician-patient interaction. Dr. Bell has a joint appointment with the Department of Public Health Sciences.
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Tony Caccamo has over 25 years of experience writing and directing all aspects of advertising, including television, radio, and print and interactive media. He has created PSAs to discourage tobacco and drug use and childhood obesity and to promote support for the United Negro College Fund and American Red Cross. |
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Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a general internist and a health services and outcomes researcher. Dr. Cooper’s research has probed the roles of patient attitudes and preferences, patient-physician relationships, physician workforce diversity, and cultural competence in understanding healthcare disparities. She has recently completed two federally funded clinical trials that evaluate the impact of primary care-based interventions to improve the quality of patient-physician communication, treatment, and outcomes for hypertension and depression. |
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Paul Duberstein, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester. He currently holds a K24 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to serve as a mentor to clinical scientists interested in psychosocial influences on late-life depression. He is also principal investigator on an NIMH-funded a research education program called the Rochester Program of Research and Innovation in Disparities Education (Rochester PRIDE) that aims to enhance the racial diversity of researchers committed to academic careers in mental health research and enhance capacity to conduct community-based participatory research. |
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Ronald M. Epstein, MD is Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Oncology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and directs the Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care. His NIMH- and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded research focuses on the impact of patient-physician communication and the patient-physician relationship on health, health care costs, and management of ambiguity. His recent work studies the effect of direct-to-consumer advertising on clinical care. |
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Anthony F. Jerant, MD is Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He studies approaches to improving the health of people with chronic health conditions and eliminating disparities in the outcomes of such conditions. Given the difficulties chronically ill people face in obtaining consistent, timely access to primary care, a major focus of his work is in developing and evaluating technology-enhanced care delivery—e.g., in the home, via computer—to effectively expand the primary care encounter in space and time. |
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Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH is Professor and Co-Vice Chair (Research) in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Between 1996 and 2006, he served as the Director of the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research (formerly Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care). A general internist and health services researcher, Dr. Kravitz studies the relationship between physician-patient communication and quality of care and treatment of comorbid physical and mental illness in primary care. |
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Matthew Kreuter, PhD, MPH is Professor of Social Work and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the Health Communication Research Laboratory, one of five National Cancer Institute-designated Centers of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research. He is also a founding member of the Washington University Institute for Public Health. His research explores strategies to increase the reach and effectiveness of health information in disadvantaged minority populations to help eliminate health disparities. |
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Michael Mackert, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Advertising at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses primarily on the strategies that can be used in traditional and new digital media to provide health education to low health literate audiences. He teaches classes in account planning, health communication, and integrated marketing communication management. |
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Debora A. Paterniti, PhD is Associate Adjunct Professor in the departments of Internal Medicine and Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Paterniti is a medical sociologist whose research focuses on physician-patient communication and patient understandings of illness and decisions about care. Her research has employed ethnographic and interview methods as well as thematic and textual analyses of audio-recorded encounters and emphasizes how the contexts of institutions and clinical encounters shape patient treatment and provide a framework for patient and provider decision-making. |
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Christina Slee, MPH serves as principal analyst and project manager on a variety of projects focused on cost effectiveness analysis and communication in health care at the UCD Center for Healthcare Policy and Research. |
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