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CHMP Welcomes Dee Burton, PhD as Associate Director for Research and Evaluation

The Center for Health, Media & Policy announces the appointment of Dee Burton, PhD as Associate Director of Research and Evaluation.

Dee Burton joins the Center for Health, Media and Policy as Associate Director for Research and Evaluation. Dr. Burton comes to the CHMP from the State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center where she chaired the Department of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health.

Dr. Burton’s most recent research focuses on the use of cell-phone technology to deliver longer-term support to highly-stressed populations. She developed an Open-Slate model of counseling in which counselors are trained to set aside their own frames of reference in order to better understand a participant within the participant’s own context. Her first study of this model was in an intervention helping Chinese restaurant workers to stop smoking. She now is developing an intervention using the same Open-Slate phone-counseling approach for HIV-infected people who smoke. Dr. Burton also is a co-investigator on a study led by Dr. Steven Levine at SUNY Downstate which aims to develop mobile applications to help stroke survivors and their caregivers in the recovery process.

In earlier media research Dr. Burton conceptualized and conducted research on two models of advertising effects that contributed to an understanding of how tobacco advertising can lead to the initiation of smoking.

Prior to returning to New York, Dr. Burton was associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. She was inducted into the Delta Omega national honorary society for public health in 1999. She holds a Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the New School, with an NCI post-doctoral fellowship in health behavior and promotion with a minor in mass media and communication from the University of Southern California.

August 26, 2013

author: Editorial Staff

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Healthstyles Talking To Your Doctor with author Zachary Berger, MD

Tonight on Healthstyles co-host Barbara Glickstein interviews author Zach Berger, MD, PhD, about his new book, Talking to Your Doctor – A Patients’ Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond published by Roman & Littlefield.

Communication matters. Good health depends on it.

The complexity of navigating a health care encounter demands skills that we aren’t taught in school.

Dr. Berger discusses some practical skills people can learn to use to improve your conversation with your health care provider so the outcome of the encounter is better for your health.

Maybe a citizen’s grass-roots movement to teach these skills is part of health care reform. You can go to www.talkingtoyourdoctor.org to learn more.

Zachary Berger, MD, PhD, is a primary care doctor and internist as well as an epidemiologist. He is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research on doctor-patient communication bioethics, and clinical epidemiology has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of General Internal Medicine, as well as in numerous venues for the general public.

*this book addresses communication with all health care providers

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August 22, 2013

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Tonight on Healthstyles co-host Barbara Glickstein interviews

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Healthstyles: Medicare Meltdown

Medicare is an entitlement program for older adults and people who are significantly disabled. But, over the years, it has also become an entitlement program for hospitals, device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and other entities that have become dependent upon the largess of Medicare–to the detriment of the people the program is to serve and the nation, as Medicare spending continues to rise. This is the premise of the new book, Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington Are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It, by authors Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh. Tonight on Healthstyles on WBAI (99.5 FM; www.wbai.org) producer and moderator Diana Mason, RN, interviews Gibson about this other aspect of Medicare ‘entitlements’, its impact on the health of beneficiaries and the cost of the program, and what can be done to reverse this course. To listen to the program, click here: