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College faculty participating in discussion on furthering collaboration among health communication and health sciences researchers

Five faculty members and a doctoral student in the UF College of Journalism and Communications who specialize in health communication research and two of their UF&Shands collaborators will present a panel discussion about communication research and how it can help advance translational science.

The seminar will be held Wednesday, Nov. 9, from noon – 1 p.m. in Room LG-110A/B of the McKnight Brain Institute.

Sponsored by the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, “CTSI’s Health Communication Research: Pathways to Collaboration” will be led by Debbie Treise, professor and associate dean of graduate students in the UF College of Journalism and Communications and director of the CTSI Communications Research Program.

Treise will be joined on the panel by Cory Armstrong, associate professor of journalism; Jon Morris, professor of advertising; Cynthia Morton, associate professor of advertising; Kim Walsh-Childers, journalism professor and Yukari Takata, doctoral student, and Stephen I-Hong Hsu, M.D., and Ronald Schorr, M.D., from the UF College of Medicine.

For more information on the collaborations being done among the College’s researchers and UF’s clinical and translational researchers, visit the CTSI Communications Research Program website at www.ctsi.ufl.edu/about/ctsi-programs/facilitating-the-ctsi.

Their work also is featured in an recent article in the UF Health Science Center’s publication, The Post. Read it at: post.health.ufl.edu/2011/10/11/found-in-translation/.

Posted: November 3, 2011
Category: College News