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Senior’s Name: Richard Street
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Title: Professor
Institution: Texas A&M University
Discipline: Communication studies
Years of experience: 43

Teacher/Training

Learners I work with:

  • Postgraduate

Interests/expertise:

  • Assessment methods

Years I have worked in communication skills learning:

Research

Areas of work:

  • Patient-centeredness
  • Patient education
  • Patient–provider relationship

Research methods:

  • Mixed methods
  • Observational studies

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. health outcomes, patient participation, patient-centeredness
  2. clinician-patient communication processes and outcomes

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Communication behavior coding, modeling pathways to improved health, patient engagement and activation

Biography/CV:

Richard L. Street, Jr. PhD, is Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. His research focuses on clinician-patient communication, pathways linking communication to improved health outcomes, and strategies for increasing patient engagement in care.

He has led advancements in modeling pathways through which clinician-patient communication processes contribute to improved health outcomes. In this research, he employs a diverse set of methodological approaches to analyzing communication, including discourse analytic methods whereby the function and content of effective patient participation, information exchange, and shared-decision-making are captured.

He has published over 240 articles and book chapters, as well as a several books and monographs. Since 2014, six of his PhD advisees have secured tenure track positions, three at R1 universities. In 2003, he was named Outstanding Health Communication Scholar by the International Communication Association. In 2008, he received the L. Donohew Health Communication Scholar Award from the University of Kentucky. In 2010, he received the Texas A&M AFS Distinguished Achievement in Research Award. In 2012, he was given the George L. Engel award by the Academy on Communication in Healthcare for career contributions to the research, practice, and teaching of effective healthcare communication skills.

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