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Senior’s Name: Kathryn Pollak
Availability: 3/3

Pairing - Junior

Title: Professor
Institution: Duke
Discipline: Public Health
Years of experience: 25

Research

Areas of work:

  • End-of-life / palliative care
  • Emotion
  • Minorities / disadvantaged population
  • Oncology
  • Patient–provider relationship

Research methods:

  • Co-design
  • Observational studies
  • RCT

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. Coaching
  2. Coding

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

I have been designing communication interventions for clinicians and patients for 20+ years.

Biography/CV:

Dr. Pollak is a social psychologist and Professor in Population Health Sciences. She also is the Associate Director of Population Sciences in the Duke Cancer Institute. She co-leads the Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group. She has been developing behavioral interventions for more than 20 years, mostly to promote smoking cessation, predominantly among pregnant women. She has studied clinician-patient communication for more than 20 years in oncologists, palliative care, and primary care. She also has served as a Communication Coach for the past 9 years. She has directly coached over 100 clinicians and currently is training three communication coaches.

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