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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Interests: social media and interpersonal relationships, life span communication, and interpersonal issues in health communication
Dr. Wright has focused much of his research on social support processes and health outcomes in both face-to-face and computer-mediated contexts. He is the author of five books, including Health Communication in the 21st Century and Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships. He has published over 70 articles and book chapters.
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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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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.
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
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.
The examination of communication among nurses and other healthcare professionals, especially in hospital settings, and the unique organizational ...
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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.
Webpage: communication.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
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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Interests: Strategic communication as it is used in both public relations and strategic and emergency communication
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Interests: health message design and effects, evaluation of public communication campaigns, health information seeking, information disparities affecting vulnerable populations, news effects on health and risk perceptions, and the role of the self in health behavior and persuasive communication.
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Interests: new media; political communication; media effects; disagreement
Dr. Vraga's research focuses on how individual predispositions and motivations influence the processing of media content, particularly in the evolving digital environment.
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Interests: health and environmental risk perception, communication, energy development, vaccine safety, and climate change
My research focuses on health and environmental risk communication. I study how people view contentious health and environmental issues; social-psychological factors that influence public opinion; how news media cover these topics; and why messages designed to engaging audiences on these topics succeed or fail. In the message effects area, I am especially interested in communicating scientific consensus in the context of risk issues that may be “settled” scientifically but remain socially contentious.
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Interests: intersection of health and instructional communication
Ms. MacArthur is interested in provider-patient and provider-provider communication and educating healthcare providers about the important role of effective communication and interprofessional communication when exchanging health information with patients and colleagues.
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Interests: Public Speaking
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