Author Bios
Laura A. Siminoff, PhD
Director, Siminoff Research Group
Laura Carnell Professor of Public Health
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Temple University
Research Expertise
- Health Communication
- Doctor-Patient and Patient-Family Communication
- Informed Consent
- Communication Training for Health Professionals
- Decision-Making For Organ and Tissue Donation for Transplantation and Research
- Decision-Making and Development of New Decision Aids
- Treatment Decision-Making for Clinical Trials and Cancer Therapy
- Caregiver Burden and Cancer
- Multimethod Research Methods
- Development of New Measurement Tools
- Cognitive Interviewing
- Survey Development
- Direct Observation Methods
- Coding Health Communication Conversations
Content Areas
- Cancer decision making
- Caregiver burden
- Organ and tissue donation for transplantation and research
- Bioethics
Heather M. Gardiner, PhD, MPH
Director, Community Health Equity Research Institute
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
University of Buffalo
Research Expertise
- Interpersonal Health Communication
- Communication Skills
- Training and Assessment
- Community Engaged Research
- Community Engagement
- Community Health Workers
- Engagement Assessment
- Program Development
- Mixed Method Approaches
- E-health
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
Content Areas
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Living kidney donation
- Health equity