Gary Kreps

Gary Kreps' areas of expertise include health communication and promotion, information dissemination, organizational communication, information technology, multicultural relations, risk/crisis management, health informatics, and applied research methods.

Dr. Kreps is an advisor to numerous health communications-related organizations including the Open Network Alliance onHealth Hubs.

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Katherine E. Rowan

Dr. Rowan focuses on risk communication, science communication, and public relations. Her research concerns the public relations challenges of earning trust and explaining complexities in risk and crisis communication contexts.

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Anne M. Nicotera

 

Summary

Chair and Professor, Department of Communications, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University

Dr. Nicotera focuses on health communication, nursing communication, communicative/interactive constitution of organization, race and gender, diversity, and culture and organizations.

 

Information

Webpage:  communication.gmu.edu/people/anicoter Twitter:  twitter.com/annemnicotera

Email: anicoter@gmu.edu Phone: 703.993.8296 Address: Robinson Hall A 307B Fairfax, Va. 22030

 

Biosketch

Anne Maydan Nicotera (PhD, Ohio University) is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication at George Mason University, where she teaches courses in organizational and interpersonal communication. Her research is grounded in a constitutive perspective and focuses on culture and conflict, diversity, race and gender, and aggressive communication, with a particular interest in healthcare organizations. She has published her research in numerous national journals. She has also published five books and several chapters.  She has developed a theory and associated measurement tool for a construct called structurational divergence, which describes the intractable organizational conflicts that can result from the simultaneous application of multiple meanings in intra- and inter-professional interactions. She is also interested in the application of structurational divergence models to cultural competence training for healthcare practitioners who serve traditionally marginalized populations.

 

Current Research

The examination of communication among nurses and other healthcare professionals, especially in hospital settings, and the unique organizational ...

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Holli Seitz

Hub Tags: Health Communication Hub | Health Care Delivery | Health Systems

Interests:   Health communication, Message effects, Media effects, Health equity

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Sergei A. Samoilenko

 

Summary

Instructor, Communication Department, George Mason University Faculty Advisor, Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA)

Sergei Samoilenko’s research focus is on public relations, crisis communication, reputation management, new media.

 

Information

Webpagecommunication.gmu.edu/people/ssamoyle

Websites: Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA);  Academia.edu;  YouTube;   Twitter;  LinkedIn

Email:  ssamoyle@gmu.edu Phone: 703.993.8472 Address: Robinson Hall A 339 Fairfax, Va. 22030

 

About

In addition to instructing, Sergei A. Samoilenko is the faculty advisor for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). He develops and coordinates career-building activities for communication students, including: professional workshops, public outreach projects, job fairs and student mixers in the Washington D.C. area. He also assists the Center for Global Education (CGE) at George Mason with developing CGE summer programs in public relations in Austria and Germany.

Sergei actively contributes to the development of communication education internationally. He is the Immediate Past President of the Eurasian Communication Association of North America (ECANA) established to facilitate former Soviet Union-related communication research, education and its practical social application in Russia and the US, and promote joint projects between scholars from Russia, CIS and Baltic states and their North American counterparts. He is a co-founder and ...

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Eric L. Olson

Focuses on open access, science literacy, and media literacy advocate. Communication specialist with extensive postgraduate training and experience with science outreach, science communication evaluation, proposal editing, web content development, and relationship building.

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Jeanine Guidry

Interests: The role of social media and mobile technology in health, risk, and crisis communication.

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Jeffrey E. Herrick

Summary

Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Rehabilitation Science in the College of Health and Human Services

Dr. Herrick is an exercise physiologist with extensive experience in analyzing biological mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary responses in a wide range of clinical populations.

He is presently doing research on Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Muscle Fatigue.

 

Information

CHHS webpage:  chhs.gmu.edu/faculty-and-staff/herrick

Email:  jherrick@gmu.edu Phone:  703-993-1263 Address: Robinson A451D Department of Rehabilitation Science MS: 2G7, 4400 University Dr Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

 

Biosketch

Dr. Herrick is an Assistant Professor and the undergraduate program director at the Department of Rehabilitation Science in the College of Health and Human Services. Dr. Herrick is an exercise physiologist with extensive experience in analyzing biological mechanisms underlying cardiopulmonary responses in a wide range of clinical populations.

Dr. Herrick earned a doctorate in Rehabilitation and Movement Science with a concentration in Cardiopulmonary Physiology at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009. He also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Utica College of Syracuse University in 1994 and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from James Madison University in 2005. Dr. Herrick is a professional member of American College of Sports Medicine and American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

 

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Rehabilitation and Movement Science 2005 – 2009

James Madison University Master’s Degree, Exercise Physiology 2002 – 2005

Syracuse University Bachelor’s Degree, ...

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